After a little hesitation Chipps identified it as the property of his master, Lord Arthur Skelmerton.
"Can you wonder, then, that the jury absolutely refused to bring in a verdict against George Higgins?
There was really, beyond Lord Arthur Skelmerton's testimony, not one particle of evidence against him, whilst, as the day wore on and witness after witness was called up, suspicion ripened in the minds of all those present that the murderer could be no other than Lord Arthur Skelmerton himself.
"The knife was, of course, the strongest piece of circumstantial evidence, and no doubt the police hoped to collect a great deal more now that they held a clue in their hands.

Directly after the verdict, therefore, which was guardedly directed against some person unknown, the police obtained a warrant and later on arrested Lord Arthur in his own house." "The sensation, of course, was tremendous.

Hours before he was brought up before the magistrate the approach to the court was thronged.

His friends, mostly ladies, were all eager, you see, to watch the dashing society man in so terrible a position.

There was universal sympathy for Lady Arthur, who was in a very precarious state of health.