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Never shall I forget the bitterness of my disappointment when I captured Felini, the Italian anarchist, in connection with the Greenwich Park murder. At this time it gives me no shame to confess it I was myself living in Soho, in a state of extreme poverty.
The moment Brisson had uttered his true name he had pronounced his own death warrant. Felini followed him up to the first landing my rooms were on the second floor and there placed his sign manual on the unfortunate man, which was the swift downward stroke of a long, narrow, sharp poniard, entering the body below the shoulders, and piercing the heart.
More than two hours passed before the constable returned, bringing with him the trembling Italian. I swung round in front of him, and cried, in a menacing voice: 'Felini! Regard me! You know Valmont too well to trifle with him! What have you to say of the murder in Greenwich Park?
'Inspector Standish, I cried, 'is it within your power to arrest a man on suspicion? 'Of course it is, he replied; 'but we must harbour the suspicion before we make the arrest. 'Have confidence in me, I exclaimed. 'The man who committed the Greenwich Park murder is an Italian named Felini.
'The proof is on the body of the murdered man, but, nevertheless, if you suddenly confront Felini with me without giving him any hint of whom he is going to meet, you shall have the evidence from his own lips before he recovers from his surprise and fright. Something of my confidence must have impressed the official, for the order of arrest was made.
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