Those who heard Mrs. Ross’s answers to the questions put to her, saw the look of mystification spreading over her face as they were developed, heard her solemn declaration that she had never even set eyes on Ivy Matthews since the day she saw her at the Coroner’s Court, heard her earnest, low-voiced assertion that “Ivy Matthews is a woman I would not demean myself to talk to, let alone to plead to,” could not, for a moment, doubt that she was speaking the truth. A somewhat similar line of cross-examination was pursued when Stanley and Ronald Ross were in the witness box, but in their case a different date was alleged. Stanley Ross was cross-examined on the point as follows:— Do you remember, on February 3, the Friday night after the inquest, going to Rathdown Street, Carlton?—No. Did you know where Ivy Matthews lived?—No. Will you swear you did not know that Ivy Matthews lived in Rathdown Street?—I know she lived in Rathdown Street, but I could not take you to the place. I did not ask you that, I asked you if you knew where she lived in Rathdown Street?—No. Did you and your brother Ronald go to Madame Ghurka’s or Mrs. Gibson’s house on the night of February 3?—No. Or at any time in February?—No. I am going to put this to you that a maid-servant opened the door to you?—No. And that you went in and brought Ivy Matthews to the gate to talk to your brother Ronald?—Never in my life; I could not tell you where Madame Ghurka, or Mrs. Gibson, lives. So you say—and did you say to Ivy Matthews: “Are you going on with this?”—No. Or did your brother?—No. And when she said: “I am” did you then, or did your brother, say to her: “If you give evidence you will have your lights put out”?—No. Or anything to that effect?—No. Have you ever spoken to Ivy Matthews since last December?—Yes. Where?—On the Thursday, January 5, that we were detained at the detective office. Since then have you spoken to her?—No. Never seen her?—No, only at the Morgue. I saw her at the inquest. You did not speak to her there?—No. When Ronald Ross was under cross-examination, he was questioned as to the same alleged interview. A woman was asked to stand up in Court, and he was asked if he knew her by sight. His answer was: “I never saw her in my life before.” He was then further interrogated.— Did you go to Rathdown Street on February 3 last and see that young woman?—I never saw that woman in my life before. Did you see Ivy Matthews on February 3?—I did not. At Rathdown Street, Carlton?—No. I did not. Did you and your brother go out there to see her?—No. Were you together on that day?—We might have been. Were you at Rathdown Street on that day?—I say I do not remember where I was. You might have been?—Perhaps I might have been; on that particular day goodness knows where I might have been. Did you go with your brother to a house where Ivy Matthews lives?—I did not.