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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78

Lambert's Need for Mats

Lambert's Need for Mats.

But the most remarkable of the new testimony was entirely independent of the Meikle household. William McGeorge, carter, who had shared Lambert's hut on the Company's land had left for another station on the morning of the 17th October and was not produced at the trial of Meikle. But in 1895 McGeorge appeared on Meikle's subpoena to give the most dramatic evidence of the new trial.

"Before I left," he said, "maybe a week or a fortnight, Lambert said he wanted a couple of sheepskins formats. I left the two skins hanging on the wire fence alongside of Lambert's hut. . . . I couldn't be sure if they hanging on the fence when I left on the Monday."—(P. 39)

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This evidence was supplemented by that of two experts—Thomas Westacote, a butcher, and Alexander Grieve, a station manager. Both of these witnesses independently saw the two skins earing the Company's brand which were produced before the Justices on the preliminary enquiry in 1887; and each of them swore that these skins had marks on them which meant that they had been dried on a wire. (P. 41.)* It is hardly necessary to add that if the skins had been taken by Meikle sheep which he had killed himself, and placed in the bundle where they were found by the police, they would have borne no wire-marks; whereas the two skins which McGeorge swore that he had left hanging on the wire fence would have acquired exactly this appearance in the course of a week or two.