He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire
paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the
paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own
statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the corner
of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this way:
"Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then
called and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for
three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the morning
of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at the time
of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he had driven
over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after my return I
heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, looking out of my
window, I s
