Wilkins said he saw the burglar pick up a stack of ten- and
twenty-dollar bills from the table in the center of the large library.
Had he not been guilty, he could not have known what the denominations
of the bills were. It would have been impossible to have determined this
from the doorway.
An unconscious slip on his part.
If you are doubtful, just try to determine the denomination of a stack
of bills on a table in the center of a large room, from the doorway.
For any man with half an eye,
What stands before him may espy;
But optics sharp it needs I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
John Trumbull.