I never had any previous transaction of the kind with ' her, not merely os an ordinary customer at my shop. Hermann Cohn: I am a partner in- the firm of Petersen and Go., jewellen. High street. I remember Mr Brass coming to me the day after the late fire, and asking mo if I would purchase a geld watch I had then in my possession, having being left there by Mrs Paterson to repair some four or five weeks previous. He also showed me a gold watch which I sold to Mrs Paterson about three months ago. The watch I bad to re pair hod belonged to her late husband. Mr Paterson himself had on one occasion brought it to repair, and said it was his. The watch is in my possession now, John James Thomson : I am clerk at Messrs Miles and Co., agents for the Boyal Insurance Company. I have charge of the Fire Insurance department. A policy was issued to Mrs Paterson for £SOO in April, 1869. £426 of it was over household furni ture and effects, £26 over a piano, and £6O on the stock-in-trade. The policy will expire on the 3rd of April next. I went over the premises after the fire in December last, and was not satisfied of the goods being sufficient in value for the policy of insurance, and did not intend to renew it.
