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Mr. Saunders said coolly , `` Mr. Richard Hardie is not the defendant , '' and flowed on ; nor would any but a lawyer have suspected what a terrible stab the judge had given him so quietly . The surgeon of Silverton House was then sworn , and produced the case book ; and there stood the entries which had been so fatal to Alfred with the visiting justices . Suicide , homicide , self-starvation . But the plaintiff got to Mr. Colt with a piece of paper , on which he had written his view of all this , and cross-examination dissolved the suicide and homicide into a spirited attempt to escape and resist a false imprisonment As for the self-starvation , Colt elicited that Alfred had eaten at six o'clock though not at two . `` And pray , sir , '' said he , contemptuously , to the witness , `` do you never stir out of a madhouse ? Do you imagine that gentlemen in their senses dine at two o'clock in the nineteenth century ? '' `` No .