The Trial for Murder

monotony of six of those interminable ten days,—the same Judges and others on the be

When the leading counsel for the defence suggested that hypothesis of suicide, and the figure stood at the learned gentleman’s elbow, frightfully sawing at its severed throat, it is undeniable that the counsel faltered in his speech, lost for a few seconds the thread of his ingenious discourse

ppeared that everybody present had dreamed of the murdered man last night, except myself and Mr. Harker.