§ 78. Mr. Pagetasked the Attorney-General what were the differences in the evidence given before the magistrates and before the jury in the prosecution of Mrs. Richardson which led him to apply to the judge in chambers for a special bill of indictment on the ground that the magistrates had been plainly wrong in holding that Mrs. Richardson had no case to answer and which led counsel to concur in the submission of counsel for the defence at the trial that there was no case for her to answer.
The Solicitor-GeneralThe application to the judge, which was made by the Director of Public Prosecutions, was supported both by the evidence contained in the depositions and by evidence of the contents of a statement made by Mrs. Richardson. After hearing the evidence of seven witnesses who were not called before the magistrates the trial judge excluded evidence of this statement as inadmissible.