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A murder had been so cunningly done that suspicion could fasten nowhere, until Byington laid his finger upon a man of so unspotted a name that no one else had had the mental courage to point to him. Through a long and masterly untangling of contradictions the state's counsel had so overwhelmingly proved him guilty that he had confessed without waiting for the jury's verdict.
The parents of the astonished baby moved the heaven and earth of the Five Towns to force the coroner to withdraw the stigma of the jury's censure; but they did not succeed, not even with the impassioned aid of two London halfpenny dailies. To resume, Mr Till had to go to Longshaw.
It was fair according to the law and the evidence, but the evidence had been juggled by the fates. The jury retired and remained a hideous while. It was only a pleasant clubby discussion of the problem of Jim's and Charity's innocence that delayed the jury's verdict.
Lorimer, in reply to a question asked by our representative, 'about what the jury's verdict would be. I have perfect confidence in the commonsense and justice of Englishmen. In fact, I had all my arrangements made, through my solicitors, for my movements after the trial. I have taken a house in a very quiet neighbourhood, where I shall be free from all inquisitive publicity."
"It is," was Chick's reply, "and in all my experience I have never seen a plainer case made out against any man." "You mean from a jury's point of view." "Certainly." "What do you think of it?" "I wish you'd tell me just what you think of it, Nick." "I guess we shouldn't be found to differ a great deal," said Nick, with a smile. "This is my view but hold on. Here comes Deever."
But I have reached a stage in my investigations when I need your assistance in completing my task before I go to the authorities with my discoveries. It is hardly necessary for me to tell a man of your experience that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to upset a jury's verdict in a case of murder." "What have you discovered?" "This, for one thing."
He did not thrust his views down the jury's throats; he seemed to offer them for their consideration, and leave it at that. He was not there to dictate to them, but to hold his client's case up to the light, as it were, just as a draper holds a length of silk up before his customer.
Yes, it was Crofton met him one evening bringing her a pound of rumpsteak. What is this she was? Barmaid in Jury's. Or the Moira, was it? They passed under the hugecloaked Liberator's form. Martin Cunningham nudged Mr Power. Of the tribe of Reuben, he said.
Everywhere was a wondrous peace; only in those two hearts was an ocean of unrest. "Very well. If you can convince me, it shall be as you say. You shall have the money. The rest shall remain until after the jury's verdict. I am not prepared to give you the money I have saved for any tale you choose to concoct. Now let me have your story.
A verdict of Not Guilty imports the jury's opinion that the prisoner is innocent. Eustace, that shall be the opinion of the world in general, and of the Scotch jury in particular, in your case. To that one object I dedicate my life to come, if God spare me! "Who will help me, when I need help, is more than I yet know.
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