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I never had occasion to examine it. The pouch produced, in a blue box, is as near like it as anything I saw. I believe it is the same. I never had one with a top like it before. What makes you think it is like yours?— The iron top of it. I never saw one like it. The leather being stout is another reason. I have done a good bit of shooting one time or another. I had another shotpouch ; but that was a belt, not a pouch. I gave it to young Holmes. By Mr. Bell.] Have you any doubt that is your pouch ?—Of course I have no private mark on it, but to the best of my belief it is my pouch. Does it correspond in every respect with the pouch you lent to Gibson ? —To the best of my belief it does. James Gibson recalled (examined by Mr. Skerrett):] I know Greaves; he works with me. I remember telling Greaves before April that I had left a shot-pouch with Chemis. Greaves had asked me for the loan of a shot-pouch. I told him that it was at Chemis's. He asked me for the loan of a shot-pouch. I said, "Itisup at Chemis's." I told him to fetch it down. Nothing else was said about it. I did not tell him whose pouch it was. I had left. Ido not recollect saying it was Hodges' shot-pouch. It was Hodges' shot-pouch I left at Chemis's. This conversation took place before last Good Friday. The night before Good Friday. Ido not know if he got the pouch or not. He never fetched it down. I did not bother my head about the pouch at all. I could not swear that I left it there the last time I was using it or not. lam not certain whether young Bound had borrowed it since or not. 1 first borrowed the pouch from Hodges about three years ago. I could not swear it might not be three years. It might have been two years last Easter. I used it myself some time. I could not say if Hound borrowed the pouch once or twice. It was about two years ago Bound came to me about the pouch. I believe he got the pouch. I think he returned it. He did return it. I could not say how long he had it. He had it a few days. I could not say how long it was ago since he came to borrow it the second time. I cannot say if it was this shooting-season or last. I remember his coming. It might have been in the middle of the season, for what I know. I think it was about thirteen or fourteen months ago. lam not quite sure. I could not say how long it is since I last saw it. How long do you think it is since the pouch was in your possession ? —I cannot say. I could not give you an idea within a month. It was the shooting season before last. I believe I used it in the shooting season before last. lam not certain it was the shooting season before last, or the one before that. By the Court: I was shooting with Chemis's gun last season. By Mr. Skerrett: I used Chemis's gun in the year 1888 in and out of season. I borrowed ammunition from Chemis. I used his shot-pouch the last time I was shooting. I had a gun of my own that I used to shoot with twelve or thirteen months ago, that I borrowed from a Mr. Thomas Harris ;he is a carter. I was using it for pig-hunting. It was a fowling-piece. It was twelve or thirteen months ago, about the latter end of winter, about October or November. I could not tell you how long I had it. I had it several weeks, five or six weeks, perhaps more. I could not tell you when it was I was using this gun for pigs. Ido not recollect if it was in the shooting season I was shooting pigs with Chemis. Chemis did not have a gun with him when I was with him. I was only out with him pig-shooting on one occasion. I was out with him on one occasion besides when he was shooting. I held the dogs. Ido not think I was out with him any other time. I had a knife. I got Mr. Harris to buy the knife for me. I would not say if I paid 3s. or 3s. 6d. for it. I have that knife at home. I shot several pigs. I killed the pigs with the shot. Chemis did not kill any of them. I shot two, and I stuck them. I swear I stuck one of them. The other was not stuck ; only one was stuck. I was unsure when I said both were stuck. I swear Chemis did not stick a pig. We caught four or five pigs when I went out with the dogs with Chemis. I had Jim Holmes's dogs, and Chemis had his own dogs. The pigs were left lying. I did not stick any of the pigs on the last occasion. They were caught alive and brought home. They were styed for a week, and then advertised for sale. They were sold. I can only recollect going out with Chemis twice. I could not say if I went more than twice. I took bullets of my own with me. I have never seen Chemis with a gun —after pigs with a gun, not that I remember. I have often been at Chemis's house. I cannot say that I have often seen a sheath for a knife there. I cannot say that I have ever seen a sheath in Chemis's house, a rough kind of sheath, a rough kind of a sheath. I cannot say that I have, and I cannot recollect that I have not. I have never seen a sheath in Chemis's possession. I never gave Chemis a knife, and I cannot say that I have ever seen a knife like a tan knife in Chemis's possession. No knife like those used in the tannery. I cannot say I did. There are so many knives worn down to nothing at the back. I have never seen one of those outside the tannery. I cannot say how long ago I lent the pouch to Bound. It was about twelve or thirteen months ago since he came to me for. the lend of the pouch. He asked for a shot-pouch. I cannot recollect if he asked for a shot-flask or a powder-flask. I told him that I had not one. I recollect telling him that. I cannot recollect telling him where I put it. I might have said I left it at Louis Chemis's, but I cannot say if I did or not. Ido not recollect if he asked for a shot-bag or a powder-flask. To the best of my knowledge I said I had left it at Chemis's. To the best of my knowledge, on the second time he asked for it, I said it was at Chemis's. He could not have had it a second time if I did not have it to give him. He returned it once, a few days after he borrowed it. I cannot recollect if he got it a second time or not. I would not swear that he had not it, and I cannot say that he had. I believe I told him I had not got one, and that I told him it was at Chemis's. Ido not believe he had it a second time. I could not swear that he had not it. No ; I did not give it to him. Now, you are certain? —No, lam not certain. I have not made a statement to Dowd, except what I said when Sound was with us. Ido not recollect if Dowd or Greaves asked me to say I was not certain if Bound returned me the shot-pouch. They did not say that; they said, " Did Bound return the shot-pouch or not?" I said I did not know. Bound said he borrowed it about eighteen months ago; when we were bachelorising. Then, Bound said he had only borrowed it once.