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Updated: September 23, 2025
There is no corpus delicti, no carcase of the missing Edwin Drood. For the reasons given, Datchery might be Helena in disguise. A person who goes so far as to wear a conspicuous white wig, would not be afraid also to dye his eyebrows black, if he were Edwin; while either Edwin or Helena MUST have "made up" the face, by the use of paint and sham wrinkles.
Here the learned counsel minutely examined the evidence, and arrived at the conclusion, that it was impossible to ascertain them. Hence, he said, the corpus delicti is wanting. But suppose the words were as testified by some, though they are contradicted by others, "damned abominable," what then? Was that reviling or profane speaking? The words were two.
"Here is the corpus delicti," he said, laughing. "But how did it get into your hands?" "Oh, in a very simple way: I bought and paid for it." "You, signor? For what purpose?" "Could it not be for the purpose of doing you a service?" The vicomte shrugged his shoulders; he had no faith in his fellow-men. "You are right," said Fernando, replying to the dumb protest, "I will be truthful with you.
He ventured to arraign the severity of the statute under which the young woman was tried. "In all other cases," he said, "the first thing required of the criminal prosecutor was to prove unequivocally that the crime libelled had actually been committed, which lawyers called proving the corpus delicti.
And with that he drew it forth from the inside pocket of his frock-coat, where he had shoved it unobserved, while the terrified company fancied he had swallowed it, and in sheer despair had soothed him by making him eat and drink all manner of good things. "Look, Mat!" said he to the dog, whereupon the greyhound immediately swallowed the corpus delicti.
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