about midnight
This was the housemaid , and her evidence contained nothing of importance . In cross-examination she admitted that she had detected no likeness between the descending footsteps heard by her and Miss Owen 's . In fact , she had at first thought they sounded like a man 's . The next witness was the fisherman , who stated to Mr. Pollard that he had met a female about midnight on the eventful first of June , whom he at the time believed to be the prisoner . He thought so still . His cross-examination elicited two facts : First , that he had once met Miss Owen at the same late hour before ; secondly , that he had met other persons going in the same direction the same night at or about the same time . Tressamer chose to emphasize this point .