The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part I.
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Observation and Inference in the Inquest
There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the inquest and which are worth considering. It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after the return to hatherly farm, on the inspector of constabulary informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that it was no more than his deserts. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner's jury. Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence, i remarked. So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged. What is the young man's own account of the matter? It is, i am afraid
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