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he states he parted with her at the
er of John Street, City. This man I
ve to be guilty and it now remains to
olidate the case. It is probable that the
sted man had associates from the city
ympanions in the crime.
‘can see no reason why he should con-
- the mechanic’s statement a ‘ridiculous’
without first examining it in conjunction
. the known facts at his disposal. Now
facts he had to go on to show that the
ment was ridiculous were slight. First
ad medical opinion as to the probable
ber of days or hours which had elapsed
1 the time of her death to the time of
finding of her body, and secondly he
the evidence of the broken watch, but
ive shown you how illogical it was to

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pin down the actual hour of death merely
by noting that the mechanism of the watch
had stopped at a particular hour, and as for
the medical testimony—well, in four days it
might easily be four or eight hours out. But
so much for the statements! I received that
last report on the 21st July, a week after the
finding of the body, and on the next day I
applied for permission to visit the scene of
the crime, which was granted on condition
‘That I would not unduly interfere with the
local officer’s investigation.’ ”

“And that is precisely what you did,”
Garret smiled.

“Well, there was a man’s life in ques-
tion,” Tuohey quietly replied, and then
went on: “I found Lisson to be just such
another village as a dozen others within an
hour’s car run from the city—a single street
of two-storied houses, with a church,
schools, and a few public-houses and small
shops. On the day of my arrival I went to
the scene of the crime with the District
Officer.

“Tt was a small plantation of fir trees
where the green fields of a farm ended and
the gorse and bracken of the bog began, a
place about ten yards off the main road. Two
Gardai were on duty and the Superinten-
dent told me as we crossed over the rough
ground, the hoops of the prickly blackberry
thorn scratching against the legs of our
trousers, that he had permitted no outside
intrusion. The place was just as it had been
on the morning of the finding of the dead
girl and I could place the position of the

body easily from the excellent photographs
I had brought.

“You can see the signs of the terrific
struggle,” he said, as we stood in the little
clearing and he pointed to the disturbed
bushes and ground. I did, or rather I saw
what appeared to be signs of a violent
struggle. The wiry grass was trampled and
the bushes broken, their stems hanging down
and in places lying in the coarse grass. And
standing there looking at it for a few mo-
ments I began to wonder how he could have
been taken in by it, the thing was so obvious.
I walked to the edge of the clearing furthest
from the place where the body had lain and
showed him that handful of grass about
which you spoke a moment ago.

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