Excerpt - The Thirteenth Juror

By A. Brennan

At 2.30 on the morning of 18th January, 1903, at the Royal Hotel, Auburn, a suburb of Sydney, Constable Long was murdered. Digby Grand and Henry Jones, engaged in burglary at the time and place mentioned got clear, but were at length run to earth, charged and placed on trial for murder. The jury occupied six hours in thrashing out a ten days wrangle, and in their verdict expressed extreme doubts of the guilt of the accused men. the foremen referred to the possibility of a third man having fired the fatal shot...