What is left?
Mr.Fox will tell you--three strong and unassailable facts.

The ring found in the murdered woman's casket, the remnants of the tell-tale bottle discovered in the Cumberland stable, and the opportunity for crime given by the acknowledged presence of the defendant on or near the scene of death.

He will harp on these facts; he will make much of them; and he will be justified in doing so, for they are the only links remaining of the strong chain forged so carefully against my client.
"But are these points so vital as they seem?
Let us consider them, and see.

My client has denied that he dropped anything into his sister's casket, much less the ring missing from that sister's finger.

Dare you, then, convict on this point when, according to count, ten other persons were seen to drop flowers into this very place--any one of which might have carried this object with it?
"And the bit of broken bottle found in or near the defendant's own stable! Is he to be convicted on the similarity it offers to the one known to have come from the club-house wine-vault, while a reasonable doubt remains of his having been the hand which carried it there?
No! Where there is a reasonable doubt, no high-minded jury will convict; and I claim that my client has made it plain that there is such a reasonable doubt." All this and more did Mr.Moffat dilate upon.