— — —The inquest on Daisy Arrow was a mere formality. In the official language of Superintendent Matchwell, this first enquiry into the murder elicited “no information which could assist the course of justice.”
The inhabitants of No. 12, Great Hogarth Street, repeated the evidence which they had already given in private examination.
The Covent Garden greengrocer remembered Daisy Arrow — who was well known to him by sight — pausing with a companion to buy fruit late on Christmas Eve, but, owing to the fog and the ill illumination in his shop (he, being just on the point of closing, having turned the gas out, had fetched the fruit by the light of a candle), could not give a very satisfactory description of this same companion, who was muffled hi a light greatcoat, had his hands in his pock
