"What were the men doing at that time?"

"I believe--really, I do not like to repeat so often that I was
ill that day."

"Have you any recollection of what you said to the men at that time?"

"None."

"Let me refresh your memory from the ship's log.

(Reading.) "'Mr. Turner insisted that the bodies be buried at sea,
and, on the crew opposing this, retired to his cabin, announcing
that he considered the attitude of the men a mutiny."'

"I recall being angry at the men--not much else. My position was
rational enough, however. It was midsummer, and we had a long
voyage before us."

"I wish to read something else to you. The witness Leslie testified
to sleeping in the storeroom, at the request of Mrs. Johns".
(reading), "'giving as her reason a fear of something going wrong,
as there was trouble between Mr. Turner and the captain.'"

Whatever question Mr. Goldstein had been framing, he was not
permitted to use this part of the record. The log was admissible
only as a record on the spot, made by a competent person and
witnessed by all concerned, of the actual occurrences on the Ella.
My record of Mrs. Johns's remark was ruled out; Turner was not on
trial.