DETAINED under police supervision, Mr. Broad did not seem in any way surprised or disconcerted. d**k Gordon and his assistant reached Wandsworth Common ten minutes after the news came through, and found the wreckage of the police car surrounded by a large crowd, kept at a distance by police.
The dead prisoner had been taken into the prison, together with one of the attackers, who had been captured by a party of warders, returning to the gaol after their luncheon hour.
A brief examination of Litnov told them no more than they knew. He had been shot through the heart, and death, must have been instantaneous.
The prisoner, brought from a cell, was a man of thirty and better educated than the average run of Frogs. No weapon had been found upon him and he protested his innocence of any compl
