S. It is a flagged floor and sanded, my lord, and there was an appearance of a wet track on the floor, but we could make nothing of it, neither Thomas Snell nor me, and besides, as I said, it was a foul night.
L. C. J. Well, for my part, I see not—though to be sure it is an odd tale she tells—what you would do with this evidence.
Att. My lord, we bring it to show the suspicious carriage of the prisoner immediately after the disappearance of the murdered person: and we ask the jury’s consideration of that; and also to the matter of the voice heard without the house.
Then the prisoner asked some questions not
very material, and Thomas Snell was next
called, who gave evidence to the same effect
as Mrs. Arscott, and added the following:—
Att. Did anything pass between you and
the prisoner during the time Mrs. Arscott was
out of the room?
Th. I had a piece of twist in my pocket.
