On the eontinuation of the proceedings in the Central Criminal
Court today, Mr.4. Wilkins addressed the Jury in defence of Barber. His speech consisted mainly of comments on the evidence affecting his client, which he treated as improbable: his client could be proved not to have been intimate with Mr. Fletcher, though he had full faith in that perscn s respectability ; and Mr. Barber's bold and open conduct throughout showed that he acted Bone fide as an attorney for a person whom he believed to be Stewart's sister. On the part of Fletcher, Mr Greaves contended that the specific charge, of having knowingly aided and assisted in the forgery of a bond, had not been made out: it had not been shown that he believed the claim on Stewart's property to be bad, or even that he knew that a bond was at all a necessary document in such a transaction. Mr. James followed on the part of Mrs. Dorey, arguing that she acted without a guilty participation.
The Attorney-General replied to the addresses of the defendant's counsel; and the Court then adjourned till Monday morning.
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