Witness: No, he is a foreign writer--(Mr. Sanderson was heard to thank Heaven for this small mercy)--who believes that life is not worth living.
The Juryman: Were you not shocked to find the friend of a meenister reading such impure leeterature?
Witness: The deceased read everything. Schopenhauer is the author of a system of philosophy, and not what you seem to imagine. Perhaps you would like to inspect the book? (Laughter.)
The Juryman: I would na' touch it with a pitchfork. Such books should be burnt. And this Madame Blavatsky's book--what is that? Is that also pheelosophy?
Witness: No. It is Theosophy. (Laughter.)
Mr. Allen Smith, secretary of the Trammel's Union, stated that he had had an interview with the deceased on the day before his death, when he (the deceased) spoke hopefully of the prospects of the movement, and wrote him out a check for 10 guineas for his union. Deceased promised to speak at a meeting called for a quarter past seven a.m. the next day.
Mr. Edward Wimp, of the Scotland Yard Detective Department, said that the letters and papers of the deceased threw no light upon the manner of his death, and they would be handed back to the family. His Department had not formed any theory on the subject.