seven o'clock
Doctor Richard May was the next witness called . The sound of that name caused the first visible change in the prisoner 's demeanour , if that could be called change , which was only a slight relaxation of the firm closing of the lips , and one sparkle of the dark eyes , ere they were again bent down as before , though not without a quiver of the lids . Dr. May had brought tone , look , and manner to the grave impartiality which even the most sensitive man is drilled into assuming in public ; but he durst not cast one glance in the direction of the prisoner . In answer to the counsel for the prosecution , he stated that he was at the Vintry Mill at seven o'clock on the morning of the 6th of July , not professionally , but as taking interest in the Ward family . He had seen the body of the deceased , and considered death to have been occasioned by fracture of the skull , from a blow with a blunt heavy instrument . The superintendent had shown him a rifle , which he considered , from the marks on it , as well as from the appearance of the body , to have produced the injury . The rifle was the one shown to him ; it was the property of Leonard Ward .