Please tell us if you ever heard voices." "Yes, I have heard men's voices," the clergyman said reluctantly, in a low voice.
"One more question, and I have done.

Have you on some occasions heard the sound of horses' hoofs in your yard at about the time that your son came in ?" Mr.Bastow said in a low voice: "I have." "Had you any suspicion whatever of the character of your son's visitors ?" "None whatever.

I supposed that those with him were companions with whom he had been spending the evening." Mr.Bastow had to be assisted from the witness box, so overcome was he with the ordeal.

He had not glanced at his son while giving his evidence.

The latter and his two fellow prisoners maintained throughout the trial their expression of indifference.