The latter did not seem to notice the action.

Counsel for the prosecution continued.
All this, he said, had been brought forward at the trial before the police-court magistrates, and he thought the jury would agree that it was more than sufficient to commit the prisoner to trial.

At that trial, too, they had heard, the whole world had heard, of the mystery of the missing watch, and the missing money.

No money, at least, had been found on the body; it was reasonable to refer to it as "missing." But here again, the motive of self-preservation came in; the whole thing had been carefully planned; the prisoner, counsel suggested, had, just as he had gone up to town to find Mr.Mills the day after the murder was committed, striven to put justice off the scent in making it appear that the motive for the crime, had been robbery.

With well-calculated cunning he had taken the watch and what coins there were, from the pockets of his victim.