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His words indeed brought a tremulous flicker of grateful emotion over the prisoner 's face ; but by carrying the inquiry into the region of character and opinion , he opened the door to a dangerous re-examination by the Crown lawyer , who required the exact meaning of his unqualified commendation , especially in the matter of humanity , demanding whether he had never known of any act of violence on the prisoner 's part . The colour flushed suddenly into Leonard 's face , though he moved neither eye nor lip ; but his counsel appealed to the judge , and the pursuit of this branch of the subject was quashed as irrelevant ; but the Doctor went down in very low spirits , feeling that his evidence had been damaging , and his hopes of any ray of light becoming fainter . After this , the village policeman repeated the former statements , as to the state of the various rooms , the desk , locked and untouched , the rifle , boat , & c. , further explaining that the distance from the mill to Blewer Station , by the road was an hour and half 's walk , by the fields , not more than half an hour 's . The station-master proved the prisoner 's arrival at midnight , his demand of a day-ticket , his being without luggage , and in a black suit ; and the London policeman proved the finding of the money on his person , and repeated his own explanation of it . The money was all in sovereigns , except one five and one ten-pound note , and Edward Hazlitt , the clerk of the Whitford Bank , was called to prove the having given the latter in change to Mr. Axworthy for a fifty-pound cheque , on the 10th of May last . This same clerk had been at the volunteer drill on the evening of the 5th of July , had there seen the prisoner , had parted with him at dusk , towards nine o'clock , making an engagement with him to meet on Blewer Heath for some private practice at seven o'clock on Monday evening . Thought Mr. Axworthy did sometimes employ young Ward on his commissions ; Mr. Axworthy had once sent him into Whitford to pay in a large sum , and another time with an order to be cashed .