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had himself bot stockings of Wheeler & not a person in his house. And such stockings as those were produced that evening on Wheeler’s examin— before Mr. Justice Hyde.
There were no stockings among the parcels that we found on board.
I had forgot to mention that the ship’s steward’s chest appeared to have been broken open at the time of our finding those parcels on board. That chest was on the low deck. The Steward was then dead but on examining his