, who happened not to be
there, or even in Port of Spain at all, she having some days before
gone into the country to spend a little time with some relatives.
The inserting of her name was an inferential mistake on the part of
the police, arising from the presence of "Lady" at the brawl, she
being well known by them to be the inseparable ally of L. B. on such
occasions.
[95] It was not unnatural that in the obscurity they should have
concluded that the latter was present with her altera ego, when in
reality she was not there.
The participants in the brawl were charged at the station, and
summonses, including one to L. B., were duly issued. On her return
to Port of Spain a day or two after the occurrence, the wrongly
incriminated woman received from the landlady her key, along with the
magisterial summons that had resulted from the error of the
constables. The day of the trial came on, and L. B. stood before Mr.
Mayne, strong in her innocence, and supported by the sworn testimony
of her landlady as well as of her uncle from the country, with whom
and with his family she had been uninterruptedly staying up to one or
two days after the occurrence in which she had been thus implicated.
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