If the
murder had not been committed till Tuesday night, who was the prophet that had foretold it, in all its circumstances, on Tuesday morning?
That he could have committed the
murder alone, seems beyond the limits of probability.
Wilson refused to suspect Tom; for first, Tom couldn't
murder anybody--he hadn't character enough; secondly, if he could
murder a person he wouldn't select his doting benefactor and nearest relative; thirdly, self-interest was in the way; for while the uncle lived, Tom was sure of a free support and a chance to get the destroyed will revived again, but with the uncle gone, that chance was gone too.
I was firmly convinced in my own mind that Justine, and indeed every human being, was guiltless of this
murder. I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.
Sheriff, arrest these two witnesses on suspicions of being accessionary after the fact to the
murder."
"Why, he was accused of the
murder," Razumihin went on hotly.
At the double inquest the coroner's jury found that Daniel Baker died by his own hand while suffering from temporary insanity, and that Samuel Morritz was
murdered by some person or persons to the jury unknown.
Giles Hicks, living but a short distance from where I used to live,
murdered my wife's cousin, a young girl between fifteen and six- teen years of age, mangling her person in the most horrible manner, breaking her nose and breastbone with a stick, so that the poor girl expired in a few hours afterward.
Hearing that the woman whom they had just left had been landlady of an inn, and that a
murder had been committed under her roof, he was led to ask himself if any explanation might be found, in these circumstances, of the otherwise incomprehensible effect produced on Mrs.
John Macfarlane, introduced as evidence in the trial, says: "There is one Alan Stewart, a distant friend of the late Ardshiel's, who is in the French service, and came over in March last, as he said to some, in order to settle at home; to others, that he was to go soon back; and was, as I hear, the day that the
murder was committed, seen not far from the place where it happened, and is not now to be seen; by which it is believed he was the actor.
"For," says he, "I am sure we ought to sentence them to the gallows;" and with that he gives an account how Will Atkins, one of the three, had proposed to have all the five Englishmen join together and
murder all the Spaniards when they were in their sleep.
"No confidences, Watson; for they are mighty awkward if it comes to an arrest for conspiracy and
murder."