 He said he had "drawn cheques on the backs of menus, on napkins, on handkerchiefs, on the labels of wine bottles; all these cheques had been duly honoured by his bank and passed through the Bankers' Clearing House".He thought that there was no distinction in law between a cheque on a napkin and a cheque on a cow.When asked as to motive, he said he had not a piece of paper to hand.