# Herbert Conroy — The Bellamy Trial character guide

> Herbert Conroy in The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mr. Dudley Lambert, Lambert, Mr. Lambert, Mr. Herbert Conroy, Mr. Conroy

**First appearance:** 0001-the-bellamy-trial

## Snapshot

A real estate agent whose ordinary business puts him on the stand, where his testimony about a car and its occupants becomes a small hinge on which the whole case turns.

## Who they are

Conroy belongs to the parade of everyday witnesses — the physician, the governess, the chauffeur's wife — whose mundane recollections the prosecution and defense fight to shape. His professional eye for property and persons makes him the kind of witness juries trust, which is precisely why both sides press him hard. In a trial where memory itself is on trial, his few minutes in the box help establish the timeline that the defendants' alibi depends on.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/ii)

Called as a witness; a real-estate broker who has the agency of the Thorne property, Orchards.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/iv)

Referred to as Mr. Lambert; the defense attorney cross-examining the witnesses.

### [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/vi)

Conducts the cross-examination of Patrick Ives, pressing him on the letters and the knife.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/vii)

Lambert, the defense attorney, delivers an impassioned plea for the innocence of the accused.

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