Square Mile of Murder by Jack House

Author:Jack House
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845029227
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2014-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Jessie is Sentenced

Mr Clark took forty minutes to read Jessie McLachlan’s statement, and, as he reached the end of it, the hitherto silent spectators buzzed with excitement. The only person who seemed unaffected was Lord Deas, who proceeded to pass sentence. I know of no other convicted person who was sentenced in so cruel and vindictive a manner as Lord Deas used towards Jessie McLachlan.

In the course of his speech he said:

You left your own house on Friday night and you went to the house in which Jessie was residing, and would, of course, have no difficulty in getting admission there. You would have no difficulty in getting her permission, if you had any plausible excuse for it, to stay with her and sleep with her all night. It is now stated, upon your own confession, you did remain there all night.

In the course of that night, at what precise time and in what precise manner we do not know … probably when she was asleep, you did attack her with that cleaver we saw here, or some other deadly instrument. … Upon that night you did most barbarously and most cruelly murder that unsuspecting woman, who believed you were up to that hour the best friend she had in the world. Of that crime you have been convicted by the unanimous verdict of as attentive and intelligent a jury as I ever saw in the box.

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