The Damnation of John Donellan by Elizabeth Cooke

Author:Elizabeth Cooke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Published: 2011-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

We therefore have Anna Maria returning to Theodosius’s room at about 7.20 a.m. in her first testimony and calling for Powell to be brought at the same time; under cross-examination she says that she was getting ready to ride. Did she return, then, after five minutes or fifteen minutes, or later still? Donellan was standing in the courtyard with the horses ready; but had anyone else gone into Theodosius’s room while Anna Maria was getting ready or, alternatively, in the five minutes’ absence that she first testified to? Neither question was asked.

We return to Anna Maria’s questioning by the ‘Court’.

COURT: When did you first see Mr Donellan after that [i.e. after she had run downstairs and sent a servant for Powell]?

A: I saw him in less than five minutes [that is, about 7.25 a.m.]. He came up to the bedchamber and asked me, ‘What do you want?’

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