human
Has Taylor been to your house and to your chambers?
gpt
Yes.
human
Have you been to Taylor's rooms to afternoon tea parties?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did Taylor's rooms strike you as peculiar?
gpt
They were pretty rooms.
human
Have you ever seen them lit by anything else but candles even in the day time?
gpt
I think so. I'm not sure.
human
Have you ever met there a young man called Wood?
gpt
On one occasion.
human
Have you ever met Sidney Mavor there at tea?
gpt
It is possible.
human
What was your connection with Taylor?
gpt
Taylor was a friend, a young man of intelligence and education: he had been to a good English school.
human
Did you know Taylor was being watched by the police?
gpt
No.
human
Did you know that Taylor was arrested with a man named Parker in a raid made last year on a house in Fitzroy Square?
gpt
I read of it in the newspaper.
human
Did that cause you to drop your acquaintance with Taylor?
gpt
No; Taylor explained to me that he had gone there to a dance, and that the magistrate had dismissed the case against him.
human
Did you get Taylor to arrange dinners for you to meet young men?
gpt
No; I have dined with Taylor at a restaurant.
human
How many young men has Taylor introduced to you?
gpt
Five in all.
human
Did you give money or presents to these five?
gpt
I may have done.
human
Did they give you anything?
gpt
Nothing.
human
Among the five men Taylor introduced you to, was one named Parker?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did you get on friendly terms with him?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did you call him 'Charlie' and allow him to call you 'Oscar'?
gpt
Yes.
human
How old was Parker?
gpt
I don't keep a census of people's ages. It would be vulgar to ask people their age.
human
Where did you first meet Parker?
gpt
I invited Taylor to Kettner's[14] on the occasion of my birthday, and told him to bring what friends he liked. He brought Parker and his brother.
human
Did you know Parker was a gentleman's servant out of work, and his brother a groom?
gpt
No; I did not.
human
But you did know that Parker was not a literary character or an artist, and that culture was not his strong point?
gpt
I did.
human
What was there in common between you and Charlie Parker?
gpt
I like people who are young, bright, happy, careless and original. I do not like them sensible, and I do not like them old; I don't like social distinctions of any kind, and the mere fact of youth is so wonderful to me that I would sooner talk to a young man for half an hour than be cross examined by an elderly Q.C.
human
Had you chambers in St. James's Place?
gpt
Yes, from October, '93, to April, '94.
human
Did Charlie Parker go and have tea with you there?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did you give him money?
gpt
I gave him three or four pounds because he said he was hard up.
human
What did he give you in return?
gpt
Nothing.
human
Did you give Charlie Parker a silver cigarette case at Christmas?
gpt
I did.
human
Did you visit him one night at 12:30 at Park Walk, Chelsea?
gpt
I did not.
human
Did you write him any beautiful prose-poems?
gpt
I don't think so.
human
Did you know that Charlie Parker had enlisted in the Army?
gpt
I have heard so.
human
When you heard that Taylor was arrested what did you do?
gpt
I was greatly distressed and wrote to tell him so.
human
When did you first meet Fred Atkins?
gpt
In October or November, '92.
human
Did he tell you that he was employed by a firm of bookmakers?
gpt
He may have done.
human
Not a literary man or an artist, was he?
gpt
No.
human
What age was he?
gpt
Nineteen or twenty.
human
Did you ask him to dinner at Kettner's?
gpt
I think I met him at a dinner at Kettner's.
human
Was Taylor at the dinner?
gpt
He may have been.
human
Did you meet him afterwards?
gpt
I did.
human
Did you call him 'Fred' and let him call you 'Oscar'?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did you go to Paris with him?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did you give him money?
gpt
Yes.
human
Was there ever any impropriety between you?
gpt
No.
human
When did you first meet Ernest Scarfe?
gpt
In December, 1893.
human
Who introduced him to you?
gpt
Taylor.
human
Scarfe was out of work, was he not?
gpt
He may have been.
human
Did Taylor bring Scarfe to you at St. James's Place?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did you give Scarfe a cigarette case?
gpt
Yes: it was my custom to give cigarette cases to people I liked.
human
When did you first meet Mavor?
gpt
In '93.
human
Did you give him money or a cigarette case?
gpt
A cigarette case.
human
Did you know Walter Grainger?