Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-28
The Wrist By
Mark J. ;. Fletcher


we went along the riverside, that being
! the shortest cut to our camp. We
| heard nothing and We saw nobody until
| we got close to that part of the river
| that is called the Brown Pool. The
| trees and the shrubs are very thick
whereabouts, but we got out of them
into bright moonlight. The stretch OF
the riverside was all in the moonlight.
AS we came out from the trees We
saw two men who seemed to be STOPPING
over something on the bank. They
would be 80 yards away. They had their
backs to us. I suppose they heard us
talking. They suddenly Strengthened
themselves, looked round, and when they
saw us, ran away toward the ruins OF
Wraisby Abbey. The place where we
saw them was only about Is yards from
the nearest part of the ruins. They
were into the ruins before we got up to
the place from which they had run
away.
When we got up to the place We
found that what was lying there was
mana gentleman by his dress and
appearance. He was dead, but he
hadn't been dead long. His hands
were still just bit warm. I am quite
certain he was dead. We didn't stop
by him more than two or three sec
onds. We dashed OF after the two
men. We went into the ruins and
listened. There is great deal of that
place left, and it is full of all sorts of
dark corners, and at the rear of 1t
there is a pretty thick plantation or
wood which stretches from there and
up toward Wraisby House, where Mr.
Sanderson lives. We hunted about and
went to the edge of the wood to see
if We could hear anything Of the men
running away, but we heard nothing.
StXUa yrerf hark the daaH man ua
was lying right in the full moonlight
AS we got up to him we saw something
shining on piece Of fiat rock near his
head and shoulders We saw that we
had disturbed the two men as they
were taking things out of his pockets.
However, they seemed to have got
everything and to have laid out what
they'd found on this piece Of rock. There
was watch and chain, a scarf-pin, a
ring, a purse and some loose money.
put all these things in my pocket. Our
idea then was to hand them over to
the police. know now that we ought
to have gone back to Barowsburgh and
to have given information. But we
knew If we did that we should get in
trouble for being out of barracks, and
we believed we had chance Of get
ting back unobserved, so we decided
not to do anything till the next day
"
we had another look around the ruins
We pretended to go away, but turned
back quietly and hid ourselves, think
ing the two men might come out If
they thought we'd gone. Nothing hap
pened, and we went on to the camp.
Next day we talked things over, and
it struck us that, If we went to the
police they might accuse us of the muir
der. So We let things slide. was
foolish enough, however, to change one
Of the bank notes we'd picked up.
MY notion is that the two men we
saw were removing the money and
things from the dead mans pockets to
make the police think that he'd been
robbed and that when we went of
they came back from where they'd hid
in the ruins, put stones in his pockets
and sunk him in the river. AS near
as can remember the men were tall
fellows, dressed in dark clothes. We
saw nothing of their faces.
This statement has been written
down at my own dictation, and has
been read over to me. It is all correct.
wish to add that it is plain, gospel
truth, every word
"(Signed) ALFRED LUTTRELL."
Pecke laid down this document and
picked up another.
This, your worships, is the indie
pendent statement, made by the de-
PENDANT GARRISON" he said. II viii
ask your permission to read it. espe-
cially as it is not only confirmatory of
the statement just read to you, but con-
tains further statement, and more
properly, question, which Clarkson is
extremely anxious to make public"
Clarkson's statement was as follows:
This is a statement made by me.