You will remember also that certain circumstances pointed to robbery being the motive of the crime.
That I think was the first idea, so to speak of the real criminal.

Then, we must suppose, he saw himself safer, if he forged against another certain evidence which we have heard." The judge paused for a moment, and then went on with evident emotion.
"This case will never be reopened again," he said, "for a reason that I will subsequently tell the court; we have seen the last of this tragedy, and retribution and punishment are in the hands of a higher and supreme tribunal.

This witness, Mr.Edward Taynton--has been for years a friend of mine, and the sympathy which I felt for him at the opening of the case, when a young man, to whom I still believe him to have been attached, was on his trial, is changed to a deeper pity.

During the afternoon you have heard certain evidence, from which you no doubt as well as I infer that the fact of this murder having been committed was known to the man who wrote a letter and blotted it on the sheet which has been before the court.

That man also, as it was clear to us an hour ago, directed a certain envelope which you have also seen.