The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

these persons were away following up the trail
above-mentioned ; that he (the witness) went away
with Balls for a little distance, and that on his re-
turn the prisoner was standing near the body, and
could not have gone away to the tool shed or to the
place where the gun was found or where the powder
flask was found. In the course of conversation the
prisoner said, " My uncle had been uneasy about a
pheasant's nest ; this is the way he always came
first," upon which they two walked up the path-
way to look for footmarks, but could not find any.
George Black, the son of the deceased, a little
boy ten years of age, was called to show that he
was with the prisoner and near him all day on th e
17th, going with him to a shop in the neighbour-
hood and to two publichouscs, where he had some
beer.

This witness said, in cross-examination, that the
prisoner, who had gone to buy .some things for his
mother, was very kind to him and his sister.
The surgeon, William Cator, who made a post
mortem examination of the body, proved that he
took 15 shots how, the body, which were produced
in court, and were No. 2 shot.
Henry Scott, a shopkeeper at Fincham, a village
near Barton Bendish, though not so near as Swaff-
ham, stated that he sold the prisoner, on the 15th
of May, half a pound of No. 2 shot and some caps,
which he put into what he called sugar paper (a
coarse whitey-brown paper) ; he did not pay
for them then ; and that the prisoner came again on
the 16th, bringing with him a shot charger, capable
of holding two charges. There was shot in it. The
prisoner asked for an ounce and a quarter weight to
put into the scale and weighed the shot.
John Hudson, a detective attached to the police
force at Norwich, said he went from Norwich on
the day of the murder (Saturday) and accom-
panied the prisoner into the wood in the afternoon.
He asked him if he had a gun, to which the pri-
soner replied he had not had a gun for two years,
having sold the last one he had to Mr. Richardson,
a tailor, at Fincham. He had borrowed one the
year before, at harvest, returned it, and had never
had one since. " I took him," said Hudson, " into
custody on Saturday, at 6 or 7 in the evening, when
he said, lam innocent of that job. Do you think
I could do such a thing and walk about with you
in the wood as 1 have done ? Besides, I told you I
had no gun.'" " Yes," said the detective, " but .1
am told you have one ;" when he replied, " It is no
use telling any more lies. As soon as I heard my
uncle was murdered I got frightened. I thought I
should be suspected and get into trouble, so I went
to the shed in the wood, which bad been broken
open, and got the gun. I will go with you and
show it you." Upon which they went together and
found it. _ _

Sir H. Berney's agent stated that the prisoner
had no right to carry arms; this person, however,
did not show that the prisoner had been seeking to
get his uncle's place, as was opined ; and three wit-
nesses (two labourers and the wife of one of them)
spoke to his having uttered some very strong,
coarse, and threatening language against his uncle,
to the latter of whom he declared he would finish
him up one day, for, - him, he hated him.
The case was not concluded, and is not likely to
be over to-day.