PREFACE.
PART I. ⸻ INTRODUCTORY.
THE APPELLATE COURTS.
WHY THE JURY MISJUDGED.
PART II. ⸻ THE CROWN CASE.
ROSS INTERVIEWED.
THE TRIAL.
THE BLOODY BOTTLE.
OLIVE MADDOX’S EVIDENCE.
THE MATTHEWS CONFESSION.
HARDING’S STORY.
DUNSTAN’S CORROBORATION.
ROSS’S MOVEMENTS.
THE SHEEN OF GOLDEN HAIRS.
THE FINDING OF THE SERGE.
THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
DETECTIVE BROPHY’S BLUNDER.
PART III. ⸻ ANALYSIS OF THE EVIDENCE.
WHY CONFESS TO MATTHEWS.
CHANGES IN MATTHEWS’S EVIDENCE.
POWERS OF INVENTIVENESS.
OLIVE MADDOX TESTED.
HARDING’S COCK-AND-BULL STORY.
CONFLICTS IN THE CONFESSIONS.
A MODEL LODGING-HOUSE KEEPER.
CONFESSIONS COMPARED.
WAS THERE “INSIDE” KNOWLEDGE?
AN EXPERT ON HAIR.
A MISSING LINK.
THE GIRL’S ATTIRE.
THE LIGHT IN THE SALOON.
POINTS THE JURY MISSED.
PART IV. ⸻ FRESH FACTS.
HALLIWELL’S STRANGE STORY.
MADDOX IN THE SALOON.
OTHER NEW WITNESSES.
THE CROWN’S NEW EVIDENCE.
PART V. ⸻ THE DEFENCE.
ROSS IN THE BOX.
STRONG CORROBORATION.
AN UNBROKEN PHALANX.
ROSS’S FIRMNESS.
ROSS AND HIS FAMILY.
IS THE MYSTERY SOLVED?
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