This be a pretty kittle of fish, surely.

I be main sorry, but I have got my duty to do." An hour later Williams the constable with a companion started out in search of Ned Sankey, having a warrant in his pocket for his arrest on the charge of willful murder.
The excitement in Marsden when it became known that Mr.Mulready had been killed was intense, and it was immensely heightened when it was rumored that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of his stepson on the charge of murder.

Quite a little crowd hung all day round the house with closed blinds, within which their so lately active and bustling townsman was lying.
All sorts of conjectures were rife, and there were many who said that they had all along expected harm would come of the marriage which had followed so soon after the death of Captain Sankey.

The majority were loud in expression of their sympathy with the dead mill owner, recalling his cheery talk and general good temper.

Others were disposed to think that Ned had been driven to the act; but among very few was there any doubt as to his guilt.