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THE officer presiding over the most ancient court in England had never been so addressed by a witness before. The dignity of which he was super-conscious had been outraged in his own town before twelve of his fellow-citizens with whom he rubbed shoulders every day in the street. It was not to be expected that his charge to the jury should reflect nothing of his ruffled feelings He was a man who had been born without a sense of humour.
"You have before you, gentlemen, the medical evidence showing that the death of the deceased was due to violence, which means that some persons entered or were concealed in the Abbey chapel between the time when the chauffeur, Lamson, drove off to Oldbury at about two o'clock and four o'clock, when he entered the chapel with a telegram; that Lamson met an
