The Trial for Murder; Part IV

Charles Dickens brings us one of the first ghost stories to ever be widely published. A wonderful story combining a murder trial and ghosts.

Intermediate

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It will be borne in mind that down to the production of the miniature, on the fifth day of the trial, I had never seen the Appearance in Court. Three changes occurred now that we entered on the case for the defence. Two of them I will mention together, first. The figure was now in Court continually, and it never there addressed itself to me, but always to the person who was speaking at the time. For instance: the throat of the murdered man had been cut straight across. In the opening speech for the defence, it was suggested that the deceased might have cut his own throat.