She only saw a man assaulted in his r [' own house, and she (by the Crown's evidence) y rushed forward and tried to separate thetp. If , i she had any guilty knowledge, could she not ' c have whipped the cork that fell on the hearth- - r rug into the fire or trodden the white powder , j into the hearthrug? But she acted in this. grave crisis precisely as an innocent woman c. would act. Then when they went upstairs her , 3 room was in perfect order. The case for the , , Crown was that that night there was to be a ( l- dreadful conflagration. Would not the girl 6 3 have had her trinkets and possessions, on which. there was no insurance, put together if she had , , known of any such thing ? The flask too which f i Miss Houston took out for the drive containing ; brandy had been found and not a suspicion of 8. antimony was found about it. Nor throughout v ; the case had a particle of antimony been con -• nected with this girl, It had leaked out two or a. three times that there had been a conspiracy j .' against this poor girl since the committal. There j r were some expressions of Miss Houston which c 3 showed her innocence. She had said frequently, ~ r "Mr Broham, it is all a mistake; it will be ex- ' i plained to-morrort, won't it?" Again she said, *. "You are not taking me away?" And this last c. was a pathetic proof of the ingenuousness of the f girl's innocent mind. Mrs Ellison had herself jj 1 been moved, and said, '•' They are not going to j i take you away, child." If ever there was v s a case of innocenpe before thp court'this was one. ■- i Coming to the matter of the letter, he would re- a 1 frain from saying anything cruel or hostile t.g t l anyone, imitating in this his client, whp had not a I suffered a single ill thought to arise in her mind 1 with reference to anyone connected with the T t case. The contents of the letter were of the - most innocent character. 