After a certain lapse of time--estimated as being half an hour--the farm-bailiff had occasion to pass back along the same road.

On reaching the stile, he heard an alarm raised, and entered the field to see what was the matter.
He found several persons running from the farther side of Pardon's Piece towards a boy who was standing at the back of a cattle-shed, in a remote part of the enclosure, screaming with terror.

At the boy's feet lay, face downwards, the dead body of a man, with his head horribly beaten in.

His watch was under him, hanging out of his pocket by the chain.

It had stopped--evidently in consequence of the concussion of its owner's fall on it--at half-past eight.