[A Final Reckoning by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Final Reckoning CHAPTER 4: The Trial 1/31
There were three magistrates on the bench on the following morning, when Reuben was brought up.
The justice room was crowded, for the series of burglaries had caused some excitement; and the news that the house of Mr.Ellison had been broken into, and that one of the men who had been taken turned out to belong to Lewes, had created quite a sensation. Mr.Ellison was the first to give his evidence.
He testified that, on waking on the previous morning, he found that someone had been in his room during the night.
He was not in the habit of locking his door, and had not been awakened.
He found that a box which stood on the dressing table, containing some valuable jewelry, was gone; that his watch and that of Mrs.Ellison had been taken; that the drawers had been opened, and a case containing the more valuable jewels of his wife had also been abstracted.
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