Her sister, who is supposed to have been the unconscious cause of the crime, is a young girl of blameless record.

Of the man who was seen bending over the victim with his hands on her throat, we cannot speak so well.

He has the faults and has lived the life of a social favourite.

Gifted in many ways, and popular with both men and women, he has swung on his course with an easy disregard of the claims of others, which, while leaving its traces no doubt in many a humble and uncomplaining heart, did not attract notice to his inherent lack of principle, until the horrors of this tragedy lifted him into public view stripped of all his charms.

He's an egotist, of the first water; there is no getting over that.