 The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer.  Once a Week - Page 27edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Headon Hill - 1904 - 336 pages
...concluded the available evidence, and the coroner having briefly summed up, the jury, by his direction, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." Mr. Inspector Croal sauntered out into the sunlight and stretched his cramped limbs in the roadway... | |
 | Florence Warden - 1905 - 328 pages
...whether he still suspected her of knowing more than she had stated. After a short consultation the jury returned a verdict of "wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," and, amid a buzz of excited comment, the proceedings ended. Alison wished that she could escape without... | |
 | Headon Hill - 1908 - 330 pages
...concluded the available evidence, and the coroner having briefly summed up, the jury, by his direction, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." Mr. Inspector Croal sauntered out into the sunlight and stretched his cramped limbs in the roadway... | |
 | Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy - 1908 - 348 pages
...to carry the keys with him any further, but threw them away and disappeared in the fog. " The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer. The result of... | |
 | Emmuska Orczy - 1909 - 356 pages
...to carry the keys with him any further, but threw them away and disappeared in the fog. " The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer. The result of... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - 1911 - 500 pages
...by it ? Hang it, sir, explain yourself ! Buck. But Bandall told me that a jury had set on the body, and returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. Bang. Oh ! Randall told you ! Do you mean to say you are such an infernal fool as to believe a word... | |
 | Thomas Catling - 1911 - 446 pages
...public mind, the meeting was arranged to hear the whole of the dreadful story. The coroner's jury had returned a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." It is no part of the duty of a newspaper to make accusations, but judges even in these later days have... | |
 | Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall - 1912 - 366 pages
...and, after hearing the evidence of Lord Holland's servants and the report of the surgeon, the jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." There the matter ended, and Best was never brought to trial ; for Camelford, in his will which he had... | |
 | Joseph Smith Fletcher - 1924 - 328 pages
...his jury heard every scrap of evidence that could be produced. And after sitting all day, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and everybody went away from the court, declaring that it was the only verdict possible, and that nobody,... | |
 | Peter Henry Emerson - 1925 - 394 pages
...about her, a suppressed joy. The doctor never called, and she did not send for him. The Coroner's Court returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. Mr. Deadman was buried, the doctor and detective following the hearse with others. Simmonds watched... | |
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