big capitals. He lighted a cigar
and settled down to read.

"MARKET MILCASTER QUARTER SESSIONS

"TRIAL OF JOHN MAITLAND

"The Quarter Sessions for the Borough of Market Milcaster were held on
Wednesday last, October 3rd, 1891, in the Town Hall, before the
Recorder, Henry John Campernowne, Esq., K.C., who was accompanied on
the bench by the Worshipful the Mayor of Market Milcaster (Alderman
Pettiford), the Vicar of Market Milcaster (the Rev. P.B. Clabberton,
M.A., R.D.), Alderman Banks, J.P., Alderman Peters, J.P., Sir Gervais
Racton, J.P., Colonel Fludgate, J.P., Captain Murrill, J.P., and other
magistrates and gentlemen. There was a crowded attendance of the
public in anticipation of the trial of John Maitland, ex-manager of
the Market Milcaster Bank, and the reserved portions of the Court were
filled with the _elite_ of the town and neighbourhood, including a
considerable number of ladies who manifested the greatest interest in
the proceedings.

"The Recorder, in charging the Grand Jury, said he regretted that the
very pleasant and gratifying experience which had been his upon the
occasion of his last two official visits to Market Milcaster--he
referred to the fact that on both those occasions his friend the
Worshipful Mayor had been able to present him with a pair of white
gloves--was not to be repeated on the present occasion. It would be
their sad and regrettable lot to have before them a fellow-townsman
whose family had for generations occupied a foremost position in the
life of the borough. That fellow-townsman was charged with one of the
most serious offences known to a commercial nation like ours: the
offence of embezzling the moneys of the bank of which he had for many
years been the trusted manager, and with which he had been connected
all his life since his school days. He understood that the prisoner
who would shortly be put before the court on his trial was about to
plead guilty, and there would accordingly be no need for him to direct
the gentlemen of the Grand Jury on this matter--what he had to say
respecting the gravity and even enormity of the offence he would
reserve. The Recorder then addressed himself to the Grand Jury on the
merits of two minor cases, which came before the court at a later
period of the morning, after which they retired, and having formally
returned a true bill against the prisoner, and a petty jury, chosen
from well-known burgesses of the town having been duly sworn.

"JOH