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Show THE CASE FITS And It Was Never Made for the Diamond Brooch , -f WHICH IS SAID TO BE STOL04. 'A The Leader-Smyth Sensation Dothes Lawyers and Expfrtu, Bat It Ktf-tertaims Ktf-tertaims a Larce Throng of Curio People Who Fill tho Court Reoi to Learn Whether a Lady May Steal. '" London-, Nov. 3. The courtroom ws again crowded by people to listen to 4he Leader-Smyth stolen brooch case. For thei prosecution General Smyth testified that - lie he believed the brooch produced in court was his wife's and that she often wore it. Mr. Smyth's daughter gave siiuJ lar evidence. Astloy, the jeweler, identic fled the brooch as the one he sohT to Mrs. Smyth. He made a caso for Mrs. Smyth's solicitor here expla'n- the case was lost in a cab last Continuing Mr. Astley said he e 5tp. brooch of that pattern early Mrs. Leader's solicitor had shJrsr sketch of the brooch bufy.-rL not a sketch of the bi" sold to Mrs. Smyth. Lnte Leader's solicitor had shown him a 4 sketch of the brooch sold to Mrs. The brooch produced in court did not htav-case. htav-case. Mrs. Leader had certainly put the brooch in the case, but it did not fit as if tho case had been made for it. There ought to be three private marks on the brooch, but it was scratched up in such a way that they could not he seeni He had examined the brooch closely, but hfl could not find one of his marks; He identified it by the pstv tern alone. Currie, the casemaker, testified that the case in which Mrs. Leader said shrf kept the brooch had never been made for iU It did not fit. No jeweler would put a brooch, in such a case. The solicitor for complain ant then began to sum up. 'S Counsel lor Mra. T,der summed UD in her behalf, and at the conclusion of his argument ar-gument court adjourned. ? J |