The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-23
Continued From Our Last Issue)

! There was sudden Singer from
a nervous gentleman In the crowd
at the back of the room, and the
coroner put on his glasses and stared
sternly in the direction from which
It came. The nervous gentleman
hastily decided that the time had
come to do up his bootlace. The
coroner put down his glasses and
continued.
did anybody come out Of the
house while you were coming up
the driven
Mo-
THANK you, Mr.. Dillingham;"
He was followed by Inspector
Birch. The Inspector, realizing that
this was his afternoon, and that the
eyes OF the world were upon him,
produced a plan of the house and
explained the situation Of the differ
ent rooms The plan was then
handed to the jury.
Inspector Birch, so he told the
world. had arrived at the Red House
at 4.42 p. m. on the afternoon in
question. He had been received by
MIR. Matthew Cayley, who had made
a short statement to him, and he
had then proceeded to examine the
scene of the crime.
The french windows had been
forced from outside. The door lead
ing into the hall was locked; he had
searched the room thoroughly and
had found no trace of key. In the
bedroom leading out of the Office he
had found an open window. There
were no marks on the window, but
1t was a low one, and, as he found
from experiment, quite easy to step
out of without touching it with the
boots.
A few yards outside the window
shrubbery began. There Were no
recent footmarks outside the win
dow, but the ground was IN a very
hard condition owing to the absence
of rain. In the shrubbery, however.
he found several twigs on the
ground. recently broken off, to-
gether with other evidence that
some body had been forciI45 its way
through.
He had questioned everybody con-
nected with the estate, and none of
them had been into the shrubbery
recently. BY forcing a way through
the shrubbery il was possible for a
person to make detour Of the house
and get to the Stanton end of the
park without ever being in sight
of the house itself
He had made inquiries about the
deceased. Deceased had left for
Australia some fifteen years ago,
owing to some financial trouble at
home Deceased was not well
spoken. of in the village from which
he and his brother had come. De-
ceased and his brother had never
been on good terms, and the fact
that Mark Albeit had come into
money had been a cause of great
bitterness between them. It was
shortly after this that Robert had
left for Australia
He had made inquiries at Stanton
station. 1t had been market-day at
Stanton and the station had been
more fun of arrivals than usual.
Nobody had particularly noticed the
arrival OF Robert Albeit; there had
been a good many passengers by the
2.10 train that afternoon, the train
by which Robert had undoubtedly
come from London. A witness, how
ever, would state that he noticed a
man resembling Mark Albeit at the
station at 1853 that afternoon, and
this man caught the 3.55 up train to
town.
There was a pond in the grounds
OF the Red House. He had dragged
this. but without result.
Antony listened to him carelessly.
thinking his own thoughts all the
time. Medical evidence followed, but
there was nothing to be got from
that. He felt so close to the truth !;
at any moment something might
give his brain the one little hint
which it wanted. Inspector Birch
was just pursuing the ordinary.
Whatever else this case was, 1t was
not ordinary. There was something