Apart from the circumstantial and inferential evidence against Holymead, there is the fact that his wife knows that he committed the crime.
"The Hampstead Mystery"
John R. Watson
There are other gaps, however, that at present, no real analogy, no fair inferential process, can bridge over; and to all speculations on such subjects, if advanced as more than bare and undisguised guesses, objection must be taken.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
Even at the very moment in which M. de Sully records this inferential reproach upon the Queen, he admits that Henry was once more in the thrall of the Marquise, and, moreover, the obsequious friend of Mademoiselle de Guise; and yet he seeks to visit upon Marie the odium of a disunion which can only be, with any fairness, attributed to the King himself, who, even while professing to return to his allegiance as a husband, was openly indulging in a system of licentiousness calculated to degrade him in the eyes of a virtuous and exemplary woman.
"The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Julia Pardoe