A note is left in the council files a while after the armor is delivered.
So you left his corpse floating in the sewer muck, but only after carefully removing his armor? Or did you fish him up first? Generally proof is a useful thing where bounties are concerned. A head would have sufficed, much easier and far less heavy.
Are there any witnesses to this deed? Otherwise can any of your fellow councillors confirm this is the "Jim O'Bob's" armor?
~Twelve Council Clerk