"'Do you suppose that any one in this walk could hear cries proceeding from the low gate?'
"'Certainly not.'
"The cross-examination of Crosby was as follows:—
"Mr. A.—— 'Were the prisoner's clothes much disordered, as if he had been struggling?'
"'No; he looked much as usual; but he was covered with blood.'
"'So we have heard you say. Do you think that a man, in perfectly clean clothes, could have lifted the body out of the ditch without being covered with blood?'
"'No: perhaps not.'
"'Was there any means by which so much blood could have been accumulated in the ditch, unless the body had been thrown there?'
"'I think not. The pool were too big.'