"
"But you have just said it was a whole week since the crime. He
would have had ample time to remove them and destroy them."
"Perhaps."
"There is no perhaps about it. Would he, or would he not have
had plenty of time to remove and destroy them?"
"Yes."
"Was the pile of underclothes under which the things were hidden
heavy or light?"
"Heavyish."
"In other words, it was winter underclothing. Obviously, the
prisoner would not be likely to go to that drawer?"
"Perhaps not."
"Kindly answer my question. Would the prisoner, in the hottest
week of a hot summer, be likely to go to a drawer containing
winter underclothing. Yes, or no?"
"No."
"In that case, is it not possible that the articles in question
might have been put there by a third person, and that the
prisoner was quite unaware of their presence?"
"I should not think it likely."
"But it is possible?"
"Yes."
"That is all."
More evidence followed. Evidence as to the financial
difficulties in which the prisoner had found himself at the end
of July.
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