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[Don Delaney was the pen name of John Sandes]
"Gentlemen of the jury," said his honor, in deliberate and impressive tones, "you have heard the evidence in this case and you have now to ask yourself whether there can be any reasonable doubt that the prisoner in the dock is guilty of a most cold blooded and brutal murder. It is my duty to tell you that, if you feel a reasonable doubt as men of ordinary intelligence, you should acquit the accused, but I am also bound to say to you that I have never heard a case more skilfully, more clearly, and, I may add, more convincingly put than this case has been put by Mr. Maynard as counsel representing the Crown."