Q. You dismissed the idea of Mr. Kennett’s having been involved with the girl?
A. No, of his having committed the murder. (Sensation.)
Q. But you still thought the entanglement possible?
A. I thought it might account for his state.
Q. Why did the first idea, associating Mr. Kennett with the crime, occur to you? (Witness hesitating, the question was repeated.)
A. (In a low voice.) O! just because of something—nothing important—that had happened at the shoot—that, and the extraordinary state I had found him in.
Q. Will you tell the Bench what was this unimportant something that happened at the shoot?
A. (With emotion.) It was nothing—probably my fancy—and he denied it utterly.
Q. Now, Mr. Bickerdike, if you please?
A. I thought that in—in pulling his gun through a particular hedge that morning, he might have done it with less risk to himself, that was all.