The other fact referred to is that during the same day (Tuesday) Palmer sent for Cheshire, the postmaster at Rugeley. Palmer produced a paper and asked him to fill in a cheque on Messrs. Wetherby (of Tattersall’s) in Palmer’s favour for £350 (the amount of the Shrewsbury Handicap stakes), saying “Poor Cook is too ill to draw the cheque himself, and Messrs. Wetherby might know my handwriting.” Palmer was a defaulter at Tattersall’s. Cheshire did what he was asked to do. Palmer took the cheque away. It was sent that night, and returned to Palmer by Messrs. Wetherby. Notice to produce the cheque was given to the defence. This was not done, and the prosecution in these circumstances insisted that Cook’s signature was forged by Palmer. If the cheque had been produced, and Cook’s signature proved genuine, the defence would have had a strong case that Palmer drew the bets by Cook’s instruction for their joint transactions. Cheshire was brought from prison to give evidence. Palmer had induced him to intercept letters addressed to Palmer’s mother to prevent her becoming aware of the forged bills. Besides this, Cheshire informed Palmer of the contents of a letter from Dr. Taylor, the analyst, who tested the remains for poison after the post mortem on the coroner’s inquiry. This letter informed Mr. Stevens, Cook’s stepfather, that no strychnia had been found, and Palmer was sufficiently audacious and foolish to write to the coroner, a Mr. Ward, a lawyer, emphasising this fact. More foolishly still he sent the coroner gifts of game. The prosecution asserted that much of the evidence given by some of the witnesses, Mills, for instance, at the trial, but not found in the depositions at the inquest, had not been given there because the coroner had conducted the inquiry so laxly. The defence, of course, disputed this.