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[This book is also known as "Again the Three Just Men".]
-"The jury cannot accept the unsupported suggestion--unsupported even by the prisoner's testimony since he has not gone into the box--that Mr. Noah Stedland is a blackmailer and that he obtained a large sum of money from the prisoner by this practice. That is a defence which is rather suggested by the cross-examination than by the production of evidence. The defence does not even tell us the nature of the threat which Stedland employed."