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Updated: June 3, 2025
Middleheath, as Sir Herbert resumed his seat without pursuing the point. "My aunt would have helped Mr. Penreath if she had known he was in monetary difficulties." "Thank you." Mr. Middleheath sat down, pulling his gown over his shoulders. The witness was leaving the stand when the sharp authoritative voice of the judge stopped her. "Wait a minute, please, I want to get this a little clearer.
Why had he as I subsequently ascertained left the room and gone downstairs to turn on the gas at the meter? "Eliminating Penreath for the time being, I tried next to fit in the clues I had discovered with two alternative theories. Had the murder been committed from outside by a villager, or by somebody in the inn?
"I showed this match-box to Charles on my return to the inn, and he told me that Penreath used it in the upstairs sitting-room the night he dined there with Mr. Glenthorpe. Therefore, it is a reasonable deduction to assume that he had no other matches in his possession the night of the murder.
He will take long walks to places he has never been, will steal money or valuables, and commit murder or suicide with apparent coolness and cunning. Sir Henry describes this as automatic action, and he says that it is a notable characteristic of the form of epileptic mania from which Penreath is suffering. You will observe that these symptoms fit in with all the facts of the case against Penreath.
Was is because you picked up the knife with which the murder was committed? The knife was a clue the police theory of course is that Penreath secreted the knife at the dinner table for the purpose of committing the murder but, by itself, it was hardly a convincing clue. Was there something else that made you feel sure he was guilty of this crime?"
Penreath had been tried and sentenced to death for a crime which Colwyn now believed he had not committed. Chance no, Destiny by placing in his hand a significant clue, had directed his footsteps thither, and left it for his intelligence to atone for his past blunder before it was too late.
"If he is the murderer, as you say, he will clear out as soon as he hears that Penreath is appealing." "He will not be able to clear out if you arrest him." "On what grounds? I cannot arrest him for a murder for which another man has been sentenced to death." "True. But you can arrest him as accessory after the fact, on the ground that he carried the body downstairs and threw it into the pit."
I determined to try and descend it. I arose before daybreak, as I did not wish any of the inmates of the inn to see me. Before going to the pit I got out of the window and into the window of the next room, as Penreath is supposed to have done. That experiment brought to light another small point in Penreath's favour.
Penreath returned from the front, invalided out of the Army?" "About two months ago." "Was he wounded?" "No. I understand that he broke down through shell-shock, and the doctors said that it would be some time before he completely recovered. I do not know the details. Mr. Penreath was very sensitive and reticent about the matter, and so I forbore questioning him." Colwyn nodded sympathetically.
Penreath's professional adviser, surely I am entitled to your fullest confidence. You are asking me to behave in a very unprofessional way, and take a leap in the dark. There are proper ways of doing things. I will be frank with you. I have come to Norwich in order to urge Penreath for the last time to permit me to lodge an appeal against his conviction.
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