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Is there a juryman in the country would find him guilty because he was lying in the old man 's ditch a week before ? '' In this way Gilmore also became a favourer of Sam 's claim to be released ; and at last it came to be understood that on the next Tuesday he would be released , unless further evidence should be forthcoming . And then it came to pass that a certain very remarkable meeting took place in the parish . Word was brought to Mr. Gilmore on Monday , the 5th October , that the Marquis of Trowbridge was to be at the Church Farm , -- poor Trumbull 's farm , -- on that day at noon , and that his lordship thought that it might be expedient that he and Mr. Gilmore should meet on the occasion . There was no note , but the message was brought by Mr. Packer , a sub-agent , one of the Marquis 's people , with whom Mr. Gilmore was very well acquainted . `` I 'll walk down about that time , Packer , '' said Mr. Gilmore , `` and shall be very happy to see his lordship . '' Now the Marquis never sat as a magistrate at the Heytesbury bench , and had not been present on any of the occasions on which Sam had been examined ; nor had Mr. Gilmore seen the Marquis since the murder , -- nor , for the matter of that , for the last twelve months .