He spoke English with just the faintest suspicion of a foreign accent.' "The prisoner, as I told you before, was English in every feature.
English in his ruddy complexion, and absolutely English in his speech.
"After that the case for the prosecution began to collapse.

Every one had expected a sensational defence, and Mr.Matthew Quiller, counsel for Skinner, fully justified all these expectations.

He had no fewer than four witnesses present who swore positively that at 9.45 a.m.

on the morning of Wednesday, March 17th, the prisoner was in the express train leaving Brighton for Victoria.
"Not being endowed with the gift of being in two places at once, and Mr.
Morton having added the whole weight of his own evidence in Mr.Edward Skinner's favour, that gentleman was once more remanded by the magistrate, pending further investigation by the police, bail being allowed this time in two sureties of L50 each.".