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Remember, she is here without proper legal council." "Silence! I ahem yes, she must answer, or I shall have to commit her, as a witness if for nothing else. Girl, are you going to answer or not?" "Sure, an' Oi " "Chief, will you call a policeman?" went on the coroner, turning to the chief of police. He was a fairly good judge of human character.
Whitney, who, in turn, beckoned to some one in the hall. In response the butler appeared, ushering in a tall man, with cadaverous features and small, dark eyes, which peered restlessly about him. "Richard Hobson," announced the coroner. "At your service, sir," said the man, advancing with a cringing gait and fawning, apologetic smile. "Mr.
You know what our juries are, Tertius evidence such as that which has been put before the coroner and the magistrate will be quite sufficient to damn him at the Old Bailey. Ample!" "What do you suggest, then?" asked Mr. Tertius. "Suggestion," answered the Professor, "is a difficult matter. But there are two things perhaps more, but certainly two on which I want light.
And much the same thing was in the mind of Sir Lucius, though he wondered why it should be. He was the creature of a whim that dominated him. The next day was Sunday, and on Monday the coroner held his inquest. The accused was not present, but he was represented by Mr. Tenby, who posed mainly as a listener, however, and asked very few questions. Nothing fresh was solicited. Mrs.
I do not believe there is a coroner in the island who would have pronounced but the one verdict over the regiment "Killed by the mayor and corporation," had we so fallen.
"That wouldn't do any good," the coroner replied. "Wait a minute! I think I've got it." And with that he went inside. Above us we heard the hum of a plane. We turned to watch it dip and glide and loop, in the afternoon sunlight. The sun, catching its wings, made it stand out against the blue sky like some fiery dragon-fly.
You may not believe it," Coroner Price remarked with a strange sort of smile, "but there are secrets known to this office, as well as to Police Headquarters, which never get into the most enterprising journals." Was this meant to startle the director, and did it succeed in doing so? It may have startled him, but if so, he made no betrayal of the fact.
Sir," said he, turning to the coroner, "will you be kind enough to examine the condition of this pistol?" and he handed it over to that gentleman. "Look first at the barrel; it is clean and bright, and shows no evidence of a bullet having passed out of it very lately; that is because it has been cleaned. But now, observe the face of the cylinder: what do you see there?"
The coroner asked the next question with such abruptness that the butler started. "When did you last see Mr. Turnbull at the house?" "Sunday afternoon." Grimes' reply was spoken with more than his accustomed quickness of speech. "Mr. Turnbull called twice, after a long time in the drawing room, he went away taking the police dogs with him, and later called to bring them back."
Coroners Feinberg and Holtzhauser with Coroner's Physician Weston arranged to go down the bay on the Patrol, while Coroner Hellenstein waited at the pier. An undertaker was notified to be ready if needed. Fortunately there was no such need.
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