Constance Emilie Kent confessed, in April, 1865, to the murder of her brother, Francis Saville Kent, on June 29, 1860, and was tried at the Wiltshire assizes at Salisbury, July 21, 1865. The book includes an account of the corner's inquest at Road, July 2, 1860, and the magisterial examinations of Constance Kent at Road, July 27, 1860, and of Elizabeth Gough at Trowbridge, October 1-4, 1860.