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"Did you notice any symptoms of mental disturbance or irritability about him at any time?" struck in Sir Henry Durwood. "No, sir. He was a little bit angry at first when I said I couldn't take him in, but he struck me as quite cool and collected." Sir Henry looked a little disappointed at this reply.

"Speaking as a professional man I am Sir Henry Durwood I think it would be better for you if you had somebody with you who understood your case. With your er complaint, it is very desirable that you should not be left to the mercy of strangers. I would advise, strongly advise you, to communicate with your friends. I shall be only too happy to do so on your behalf if you will give me their address.

I witnessed the scene at the breakfast table, and, in my opinion, Sir Henry Durwood acted hastily and wrongly in rushing forward and seizing Penreath. There was nothing in his behaviour that warranted it. He was a little excited, and nothing more, and from what I have heard since he had reason to be excited.

The scar is an unmistakable mark. I noticed it the first time I saw Ronald." "I noticed it also," said Sir Henry Durwood. "It seems a clear case to me," said the chief constable. "I have signed a warrant for Ronald's arrest, and Superintendent Galloway has notified all the local stations along the coast to have the district searched.

Glenthorpe's body struck me as an unusual one. You heard Sir Henry Durwood say, in answer to my questions, that the blow was a slanting one, struck from the left side, entering almost parallel with the ribs, yet piercing the heart on the right side. The manner in which Mr. Glenthorpe's arms were thrown out, his legs drawn up, proved that he was lying on his back when murdered.

Sir Henry Durwood says Penreath was about to commit a violent assault on the people at the next table when he interfered." "The violence was not apparent to me," returned the detective, who did not feel called upon to disclose his secret belief that Sir Henry had acted hastily.

He believed that no gentleman would commit murder unless he were mad. Since his arrival in Norfolk he had come to the conclusion that young Penreath was not only mad, but that he had committed the murder with which he stood charged. Sir Henry Durwood had been responsible for the first opinion, and the police had helped him to form the second.

"There must be a first attack that goes without saying," interposed the judge testily. That concluded the cross-examination. Mr. Middleheath, in re-examination, asked Sir Henry whether foam at the lips was a distinguishing mark of epilepsy. "It generally indicates an epileptic tendency," replied Sir Henry Durwood. At the conclusion of Sir Henry Durwood's evidence Mr.

Of course, your being Colwyn alters the question. I have no hesitation in confiding in you. I am Sir Henry Durwood no doubt you have heard of me. Naturally, I have to be careful." Colwyn looked at his companion with renewed interest.

The judge, in his summing up at the trial, was clearly of the opinion that Sir Henry Durwood was wrong in thinking Penreath insane, and he directed the jury accordingly. "In my opinion the judge was right. I do not think Penreath is insane, or even subject to fits of impulsive insanity.