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Ring on its eastern side, and proceeded to a knoll (As), where 

 Svensson had previously said the bear must lie, if he was 

 within the circle. But when they found a place where 

 the beast had burrowed, and that he was gone elsewhere, 

 they proceeded to the more southern part of the Ring. 

 Subsequently they diverged a little to the eastward, and then 

 returned north again. Shortly afterwards, and about ten or 

 fifteen minutes from the time they first entered the Ring, 

 Lloyd pointed his gun toward the aforesaid knoll, which lay in 

 a north-westerly direction, and fired, though without Elg or 

 Atter owing to the thickness of the intervening wood 

 being able to discern the object at which he aimed. But 

 subsequently they ascertained that Svensson was hit by the 

 shot, and killed; and that at a distance of one hundred 

 and forty-five paces from the spot where he had been 

 stationed at the commencement of the hunt, and where 

 he had been expressly ordered to remain. For this reason, 

 and because at the time it was not to be imagined that any 

 person could be on the aforesaid knoll, much less Svensson, 

 after he himself had said that the bear must be lying 

 there, if he was within the Ring; and as, besides, the spot 

 where the occurrence took place was within a district where 

 shooting was allowed, the Harads-Ratt considers that 

 Svensson was killed by accident, on the part of Lloyd, 

 and that the case must therefore come under Chap. 29, 

 2, of the Criminal Code (Missgernings Balkeri), which 

 enacts, &c., &c." 



Though subjected to a trifling fine, in the shape of a 

 deodand, the effect of this judgment was a full and honour- 

 able acquittal. 



But unfortunately the matter did not rest here. In all 



