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Sir
Ernest
Heavywether
,
the
famous
K
.
C
.
,
had
been
engaged
to
defend
him
.
Mr
.
Philips
,
K
.
C
.
,
opened
the
case
for
the
Crown
.
The
murder
,
he
said
,
was
a
most
premeditated
and
cold
-
blooded
one
.
It
was
neither
more
nor
less
than
the
deliberate
poisoning
of
a
fond
and
trusting
woman
by
the
stepson
to
whom
she
had
been
more
than
a
mother
.
Ever
since
his
boyhood
,
she
had
supported
him
.
He
and
his
wife
had
lived
at
Styles
Court
in
every
luxury
,
surrounded
by
her
care
and
attention
.
She
had
been
their
kind
and
generous
benefactress
.
He
proposed
to
call
witnesses
to
show
how
the
prisoner
,
a
profligate
and
spendthrift
,
had
been
at
the
end
of
his
financial
tether
,
and
had
also
been
carrying
on
an
intrigue
with
a
certain
Mrs
.
Raikes
,
a
neighbouring
farmer
’
s
wife
.
This
having
come
to
his
stepmother
’
s
ears
,
she
taxed
him
with
it
on
the
afternoon
before
her
death
,
and
a
quarrel
ensued
,
part
of
which
was
overheard
.
On
the
previous
day
,
the
prisoner
had
purchased
strychnine
at
the
village
chemist
’
s
shop
,
wearing
a
disguise
by
means
of
which
he
hoped
to
throw
the
onus
of
the
crime
upon
another
man
—
to
wit
,
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
’
s
husband
,
of
whom
he
had
been
bitterly
jealous
.
Luckily
for
Mr
.
Inglethorp
,
he
had
been
able
to
produce
an
unimpeachable
alibi
.
On
the
afternoon
of
July
17th
,
continued
Counsel
,
immediately
after
the
quarrel
with
her
son
,
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
made
a
new
will
.
This
will
was
found
destroyed
in
the
grate
of
her
bedroom
the
following
morning
,
but
evidence
had
come
to
light
which
showed
that
it
had
been
drawn
up
in
favour
of
her
husband
.
Deceased
had
already
made
a
will
in
his
favour
before
her
marriage
,
but
—
and
Mr
.
Philips
wagged
an
expressive
forefinger
—
the
prisoner
was
not
aware
of
that
.
What
had
induced
the
deceased
to
make
a
fresh
will
,
with
the
old
one
still
extant
,
he
could
not
say
.
She
was
an
old
lady
,
and
might
possibly
have
forgotten
the
former
one
;
or
—
this
seemed
to
him
more
likely
—
she
may
have
had
an
idea
that
it
was
revoked
by
her
marriage
,
as
there
had
been
some
conversation
on
the
subject
.
Ladies
were
not
always
very
well
versed
in
legal
knowledge
.
She
had
,
about
a
year
before
,
executed
a
will
in
favour
of
the
prisoner
.
He
would
call
evidence
to
show
that
it
was
the
prisoner
who
ultimately
handed
his
stepmother
her
coffee
on
the
fatal
night
.
Later
in
the
evening
,
he
had
sought
admission
to
her
room
,
on
which
occasion
,
no
doubt
,
he
found
an
opportunity
of
destroying
the
will
which
,
as
far
as
he
knew
,
would
render
the
one
in
his
favour
valid
.
The
prisoner
had
been
arrested
in
consequence
of
the
discovery
,
in
his
room
,
by
Detective
Inspector
Japp
—
a
most
brilliant
officer
—
of
the
identical
phial
of
strychnine
which
had
been
sold
at
the
village
chemist
’
s
to
the
supposed
Mr
.
Inglethorp
on
the
day
before
the
murder
.
It
would
be
for
the
jury
to
decide
whether
or
not
these
damning
facts
constituted
an
overwhelming
proof
of
the
prisoner
’
s
guilt
.
And
,
subtly
implying
that
a
jury
which
did
not
so
decide
,
was
quite
unthinkable
,
Mr
.
Philips
sat
down
and
wiped
his
forehead
.
The
first
witnesses
for
the
prosecution
were
mostly
those
who
had
been
called
at
the
inquest
,
the
medical
evidence
being
again
taken
first
.
Sir
Ernest
Heavywether
,
who
was
famous
all
over
England
for
the
unscrupulous
manner
in
which
he
bullied
witnesses
,
only
asked
two
questions
.
