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"Then, if Wallingford's reforms had been carried out, Krevin Crood would have lost £150 a year?" "He would have lost £300 a year. Wallingford's scheme included the utter abolition of all these Town Trustee-created pensions and doles. Lock, stock and barrel, they were all to go." "And the Town Trustees Crood, Mallett, Coppinger were fully acquainted with his intentions and those of his party?"
"And how do you think this is related to Wallingford's murder?" asked Hawthwaite with sudden directness. "Let's be plain, doctor do you suspect Mallett?" Wellesley showed signs of indecision. "I don't like to say that I do," he replied at last. "And yet, I don't know.
Johnson then repeated his statement regarding Albin's connection with the crime, after which Chief Deitsch said: "What have you got to say about the statement made by Johnson which implicates you with the murder?" "There is no truth in that. I think I wore a cap on Friday night, but I was not in Wallingford's saloon, as Johnson says. I went home with Walling about fifteen minutes after 9.
As then, I saw shadows moving on the walls, and once the same slender, graceful figure evidently that of a young girl came to the window and tried to look out into the deep darkness. As there was nothing to be gained by standing there in the drenching storm, I moved onward, taking the way to Mrs. Wallingford's dwelling. I had scarcely touched the knocker when the door was opened, and by Mrs.
There was no doubt whatever, said Mallett, as to what were the intentions of Wallingford and his party though up to then Wallingford's party did not know all that Wallingford knew. There was to be a clean sweep of everything that existed under the Town Trustee system. The Town Trustees themselves were to go. All pensions were to be done away with.
Coroner, I now wish to make a certain statement, on my oath, and to produce a certain piece of evidence, to show that Mr. Wallingford's personal safety was threatened only a few days before his murder!" Thus saying, Epplewhite thrust a hand into the inner pocket of his coat, and, producing a letter, held it out at arm's length, so that every one could see it.
In his first glance into the room he had been quick to notice the limp hand hanging across the edge of the desk, the way in which Wallingford's head lay athwart the mass of papers over which he had collapsed in falling forward from his chair that meant death.
Hardinge's; a bid that he was not properly prepared to make, but which he hazarded on his knowledge of Lucy's means and disposition. A man of the name of Daggett, a relative of John Wallingford's, by his mother's side, was the ostensible purchaser, and now professed to be the owner of my paternal acres.
"As you say, Hawthwaite, I think it's something that you ought to know, both of you; but, at present, I don't know if there's anything in it I mean anything that has real, practical relation to Wallingford's death, or not. I am to speak in confidence?" "To me yes," answered Brent promptly. "It'll not go beyond me, doctor," said Hawthwaite with a smile. "I'm used to this job!
Sarah Jane Spizey yes. Wife of the Town Bellman. Resident in St. Laurence Lane. Went out charing sometimes; sometimes worked at Marriner's Laundry. Odd-job woman, in fact. "Mrs. Spizey," said the Coroner, "I understand that on the evening of Mr. Wallingford's death you were engaged in some work in the Moot Hall. Is that so?" "Yes, sir. Which I was a-washing the floor of this very court."
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