the motive for his dastardly assault upon an unoffending citizen,
which to many minds has seemed lacking, has been supplied.

"The full particulars of this day's proceedings will be found
below."

We omit these to save repetition; but they were very carefully
conned by Deborah Scoville. Also the following:

"The defence is in a line with the statement already given out.
The prisoner acknowledges taking the watch but from motives quite
opposed to those of thievery. Unfortunately he can produce no
witnesses to substantiate his declaration that he had heard voices
in the direction of the bridge while he was wandering the woods in
search of his lost child. No evidence of any other presence there
is promised or likely to be produced. It was thought that when his
wife was called to the stand she might have something to say
helpful to his case. She had been the one to ultimately find and
lead home the child, and, silent as she had been up to this time,
it has been thought possible that she might swear to having heard
these voices also.

"But her testimony was very disappointing. She had seen nobody,
heard nobody but the child whom she had found playing with stones
in the old ruin. Though by a close calculation of time she could
not have been far from Dark Hollow at the instant of the crime,
yet neither on direct or cross-examination could anything more be
elicited from her than what has been mentioned above.
Nevertheless, we feel obliged to state that, irreproachable as her
conduct was on the stand, the impression she made was, on the