Talk:Case of the Hooded Man

Crown Court????
The trial section repeatedly says that the trial took place in the Crown Court, or in Lewes Crown Court. This cannot be correct as Crown Courts were not created until 1972. Can someone go back to the original references and find out where the trial actually took place - possible the Lewes Assizes. Similarly, the Crown Prosecution Service was not established until 1986. -- Arwel Parry (talk) 19:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Righto, sorry. I seem to have misread the sources. Ironholds (talk)

Sherlock Holmes
This case is repeatedly featured in the opening credits of the BBC's version of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries (the Jeremy Brett version). did you know? There is a wide shot that tightens in on a paper boy hawking a paper, and then focuses on a paper that refers to the Eastbourne murders.

On a different note, would you like me to fix up the grammar and punctuation? It's a bit ...ummmm... more flexible that it needs to be. :) Auntieruth55 (talk) 00:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That would be excellent :). I wasn't aware of that, no! Ironholds (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. occasional confusion of commas, and some  of the pronouns were ambiguous, a few other ambiguities in clauses and prepositional phrases.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Auntieruth55 (talk • contribs) 00:38, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

The gun
A critical point seems to be the recovery of the gun that was allegedly used. It is stated that a gun was buried on the beach, but there is no mention of its recovery, although this is implied in the statement "by firing the gun ..." It seems to me a important - if the gun was recovered from where Seymour said it was, then clearly her statement was at least in part true.

A minor point - why was Power arrested - on what charge?

Baska436 (talk) 00:34, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It doesn't say, but I assume the answer is "he wasn't formally charged": the intent was probably not to charge him with anything (and this is 1913. Police guidelines are a bit, ahem, "looser" than they are now) but instead to prevent Williams knowing who had trapped him. I've clarified the gun point - the forensic expert used a different weapon of the same make and model to demonstrate similarities between Williams's weapon and the gun used to kill the victim. Ironholds (talk) 02:18, 30 June 2011 (UTC)