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The quarter-sessions at which Skinner and Meta Dalbert were to be tried was to commence in three weeks' time, but it was expected to be fully four weeks before the trial would come off, as the case was preceded by several others on the calendar.
Two days, however, after Mrs Dalbert's arrest, to the surprise of most people, she was liberated on bail, which was found by a leading firm of solicitors in the large sum of two thousand pounds.