eated what
he had already told the constables. He stated, namely, that on the night
in question he had some gentlemen friends to dinner, and afterwards
bridge was played. He himself was not playing much, and at a few minutes
before eleven he strolled out with a cigar as far as the pavilion at the
end of his garden; he then heard the voices, the cry and the groan
previously described by him, and managed to hold the murderer down until
the arrival of the constables.

"At this point the police proposed to call a witness, James Terry by
name and a bookmaker by profession, who had been chiefly instrumental in
identifying the deceased, a 'pal' of his. It was his evidence which
first introduced that element of sensation into the case which
culminated in the wildly exciting arrest of a Duke's son upon a capital
charge.

"It appears that on the evening after the Ebor, Terry and Lavender were
in the bar of the Black Swan Hotel having drinks.

"'I had done pretty well over Peppercorn's fiasco,' he explained, 'but
poor old Lavender was very much down in the dumps; he had held only a
few very small bets against the favourite, and the rest of the day had
been a poor one with him. I asked him if he had any bets with the owner
of Peppercorn, and he told me that he only held one for less than L500.

"'I laughed and said that if he held one for L5000 it would make no
difference, as from what I had heard from the other fellows, Lord Arthur
Skelmerton must be about stumped. Lavender seemed terribly put out at
this, and swore he would get that L500 out of Lord Arthur, if no one
else got another penny from him.

"'It's the only money I've made to-day,' he says to me. 'I mean to get
it.'

"'You won't,' I says.

"'I will,' he says.

"'You will have to look pretty sharp about it then,' I says, 'for every
one will be wanting to get something, and first come first served.'

"'Oh! He'll serve me right enough, never you mind!' says Lavender to me
with a laugh. 'If he don't pay up willingly, I've got that in my pocket
which will make him sit up and open my lady's eyes and Sir John Etty's
too about their precious noble lord.'

"'Then he seemed to think he had gone too far, and wouldn't say anything
more to me about that affair. I saw him on the course the next day. I
asked him if he had got his L500. He said: "No, but I shall get it
to-day."'

"Lord Arthur Skelmerton, after having given his own evidence, had left
the court; it was ther