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“It was a ‘staged struggle’,” I told him.
“See this handful of grass. It was pulled up
by the roots and left lying at the spot where
it was pulled. Doesn't that strike you as
peculiar?”

“I can't say that it does,” he replied in a
changed voice.

“Do you observe the distance this is from
the place where the body was found? It ‘is
presumed that the victim caught hold of this
tuft of grass and that whilst doing so she
was grappled by some persons, isn’t that
your theory? Very good. Well, now I sug-
gest that in that case it is not reasonable to
assume that it would have been lying in
that orderly manner. It wouid, I believe,
have been scattered over the ground, for the
victim would still -keep a grip on it after
pulling it from the earth, just as a drowning

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person would when sinking. In the subse:
quent struggle her grip would probably be
relaxed, but that would likely occur in the
centre of the clearing, and the grass falling
from her hand would lie scattered. Then
again, look at the bushes. They are broken,
it is true, but they are broken as the result
of methodical destruction. You see what I
mean—where the stems are brittle they are
snapped neatly, as if broken between a pair
of hands, for instance, and in a few instances
where the sap was high in them they have
been twisted off. You see, too, that the
leaves along the broken stems are not dis-
turbed. Now, if the stems had been inter-
fered with in a struggle the whole end of
the plant would be crushed, leaves and stem,
and not merely the centre of the stem. Do
you agree?”

“I do not,” he told me bluntly. “To a
logical mind there is everything here which
indicates that a violent struggle took place.”

“How many do you think were concerned
in the murder?” I asked.

“Two at least,” he replied.

“Well, don’t you think that if two or
more men were concerned the question of a
struggle would not arise. The victim was a
girl of medium build and strength and it is
unlikely that she could have put up much
of a struggle against more than one man.”

“Tt is surprising what a girl can do under
such circumstances,” was his  straightfor-
ward reply.

“After that,” Tuohey went on, “he in-
structed the inspector—a likely man named

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Barry—to give me any assistance neces;
It was he who brought me the dead g
flimsy piece of underwear, her stocking .
garters, the watch and the soiled beret,

“Did those tell you anything?”

“Well, the slip did not tell me much,
the beret was different. The felt hat 1
creased and slightly soiled and it sudde
struck me that there was something ,
about those creases. They were not |
creases, and, taken in conjunction with
light earth marks, I believed such evide
to be inconsistent with the officer’s the
that the creases and marks were caused
the hat being trampled upon.”

“T did not think that the mere creasing
clothing could give a clue,”. Garrett «
mented.

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