“From these and other circumstances,” he said, “the coroner’s jury found
that the deceased, Janet MacGregor, came to her death from blows
inflicted by some person to the jury unknown; but it was added that the
evidence pointed strongly to her husband, Thomas MacGregor, as the guilty
person. But Thomas MacGregor has never been found nor heard of. It was
learned that the couple came from Edinburgh, but not—my dear, do you not
observe that Mr. Elderson’s boneplate has water in it?”