The inquiry at Bow Street is coining to an end,
to the infinite relief of all the public, except those ladies and gentlemen who press forward at every sitting to hear the last bit of evidence or word-fencing between counsel and convicts, and to inhale the stiffing air of the little Court. Froggatt, the solicitor charged with trying to defeat the ends of justice by offer- ing money to witnesses who were to appear against Kurr, is committed for trial. The chief witness called against Froggatt was Mr. Flintoff, a well-known lecturer on cheap gas, who stated that he was offered £50 by Froggatt at the
Great Marlborough Street Police Court on condition that he would not identify Kurr. Sir James Ingham inti mated in the course of Thursday that there was evidence to go to a jury against Meiklejohu. Druscovich's legal adviser asked that no step should be taken in regard to him until the whole of the confirmatory evidence was gone into, so that he might know what he had to meet. The Chief Magis- trate incidentally stated, with respect to Inspector Palmer, that he regarded lais cruie in a quite different light from that in which he viewed the cases of Meiklejohn and Druscovich. We observe that Mr. Poland pleads in excuse of the length of the inquiry the danger of a witness dying or meeting with a serious accident before he has given his evidence, but is not this a reason for hurrying on the trial, and not staving it off?
