"The fact that some of the bones were actually found on land belonging to your client seemed to me rather significant." "Did it, indeed ?" said Mr.Jellicoe.He reflected for a few moments, gazing steadily at me the while, and then continued: "In that I am unable to follow you.

It would have seemed to me that the finding of human remains upon a certain piece of land might conceivably throw a _prima facie_ suspicion upon the owner or occupant of that land as being the person who deposited them.

But the case that you suggest is the one case in which this would be impossible.

A man cannot deposit his own dismembered remains." "No, of course not.

I was not suggesting that he deposited them himself, but merely that the fact of their being deposited on his land, in a way, connected these remains with him." "Again," said Mr.Jellicoe, "I fail to follow you, unless you are suggesting that it is customary for murderers who mutilate bodies to be punctilious in depositing the dismembered remains upon land belonging to their victims.