Артур Конан Дойл - Тайна Боскомской долины. Книга для чтения на английском языке

023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ndwW_kSTTNuW_pYcoAFCbTPOZPsJ3IO3/view?usp=sharing

“From Hatherley Farmhouse to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner.

024. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tAhEXyWw7s175vlGq4Wz0Sv2lpGH7dtR/view?usp=sharing

Both these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the same way with a gun under his arm.

025. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nGlfUpHCGKdFaFEmmH0hCNCRq_vPuK_q/view?usp=sharing

To the best of his belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred.

026. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1stdNK8LnDKODHKrBtboz1YdUNs64T0OY/view?usp=sharing

“The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the edge.

027. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10azLqC43m5iApgA6bAERDgcbiXd1j2GT/view?usp=sharing

A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers.

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She states that while she was there she saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a violent quarrel.

029. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19kJWPnPbuqQv8Rsy4d8UPlKPSUZEJSd5/view?usp=sharing

She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his hand as if to strike his father.

030. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qqnPkeM-VjnV1OzPTHCvQx9j1__x5XlJ/view?usp=sharing

She was so frightened by their violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to fight.

031. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFguiRfLvltaBAe9SL_FQZ4qXonnSmSL/view?usp=sharing

She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper.

032. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RIDUUhl8Frt7H1Uyct3f_iz93MGEhMM7/view?usp=sharing

He was much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the grass beside the pool.

033. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3Q7UeCjcIa5ZcuQivs2W1JNZecOsYvg/view?usp=sharing

The head had been beaten in by repeated blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son’s gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the body.

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Under these circumstances the young man was instantly arrested, and a verdict of ‘wilful murder’ having been returned at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes.

035. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-kHa7oYiZ6ROvbvoLFwywuNi-lm_FudU/view?usp=sharing

Those are the main facts of the case as they came out before the coroner and the police-court.”

036. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNVNSxR37dChO0p34ozHzFBUZmWJswA5/view?usp=sharing

“I could hardly imagine a more damning case,” I remarked. “If ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so here.”

037. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19hPIUXSQ6y37HYfDJOq-uXE6YPKEBioT/view?usp=sharing

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,” answered Holmes thoughtfully. “It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.