Mr. Errol and Coristine, backed by the Captain and Ben, told how the body was found.  Wilkinson and Perrowne related their share in conveying the corpse to Richards’ house, and Richards confirmed their story.  The coroner himself, having examined the body, affirmed that the deceased came to his death by a fracture of the skull, inflicted by a heavy blow from some blunt instrument from behind, followed by a pistol shot in front through the temple.  Two persons, evidently, were concerned in the murder.  Who were they?  Matilda Nagle was sworn.  She repudiated the name of Rawdon.  She testified that a man called Harding brought her a note from her long lost brother Steven, asking her to meet him at the barred gate in the narrows at a certain hour late on Monday morning.  She went, but Rawdon would not let her go beyond the barred gate, so she called Stevy over.  He came to the foot of a tree, where Rawdon told her she must stay; and then she saw Harding run up behind him and hit him over the head with an iron bar, and he fell down and went to sleep.  Did Rawdon shoot him?  She shivered, and didn’t know, nor could any cross examination extract this evidence from her.  Harding knocked him down with the iron bar, and he went to sleep, and she couldn’t wake him.  Then she went to the corpse and cried:  “Oh, Stevy, Stevy, wake up, do wake up quick, for he’ll come again.”  The court and jury were deeply affected.  Old Mr. Newberry, the foreman of the jury, brought in the verdict to the effect that the deceased was murdered by a blow from an iron bar administered by one Harding, producing fracture of the skull, and by a pistol shot in the left temple by some unknown person.  Thus the first inquest came to an end.  The second inquest would have been a matter of difficulty, on account of the large number of people supposed to be implicated in Harding’s death, had not Ben Toner, who had been called out of court, returned with three good men and true, namely Mr. Bigglethorpe, M. Lajeunesse, and a certain Barney Sullivan.  These three parties, moved by the entreaties of Widow Toner, had set out early in the morning to look up the missing Ben; and were so delighted with their success, and so tired with their walk, that they were willing to sit on anything, even a coroner’s jury.  Accordingly, a new jury was empanelled, consisting of Messrs. Johnson, Newberry, and Pawkins, Bigglethorpe, Lajeunesse and Sullivan, Errol, Wilkinson and Richards, with the Captain, Mr. Bangs, and Squire Walker.  The latter was chosen foreman.  The coroner himself acted as clerk.  Ben Toner had seen the deceased in company with one Newcome, and had heard him addressed as Harding.  The coroner testified to having examined the body, which exhibited no shot wound of any kind, but the forehead was badly bruised, evidently by a stone, as gritty particles were to be seen adhering to it, and two table knives were still resting in the neighbourhood of the heart.  The jury examined the corpse, and,