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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Holmes and Watson still disagree about how to interpret the young man's words. Watson now asks to hear the man's own account of what happened. Holmes searches through the newspapers he has brought and hands over an article from a local paper. Settling into a corner of the compartment, Watson begins to read the statement for himself.

I shook my head.私は首を振った。
"Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence," I remarked.「ずっと弱い証拠で絞首刑になった人間も多いよ」と私は言った。
"So they have.「そのとおりだ。
And many men have been wrongfully hanged."そして、無実なのに絞首刑になった人間も多い」
"What is the young man's own account of the matter?"「その青年自身は、この件をどう説明しているんだい」
"It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive.「残念だが、味方する人々をあまり勇気づける話ではない。ただ、一つ二つ、考えさせる点がある。
You will find it here, and may read it for yourself."ここに載っているから、自分で読んでみるといい」
He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own statement of what had occurred.彼は新聞の束から地元ヘリフォードシャーの新聞を一部抜き出した。そして紙を折り返し、不運な青年が出来事について自分の言い分を述べた記事を指し示した。
I settled myself down in the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully.私は客車の隅にゆったり座り、その記事をたいへん注意深く読んだ。
It ran in this way:次のように書かれていた。