CHAPTER IX.HAMMOND’S STORY.
The effect of this statement can hardly be exaggerated.
It shook the very foundation of the case against the prisoner. If Gaspard’s identification could be disproved, it seemed almost sure that Jones was saved.
Even though it could be shown beyond a doubt that Corbut had been murdered in a flat which was rented by Jones, that would not prove that Jones had done it.
The murderer was evidently the man who had ridden in the cab with Corbut. And Harrigan, the only witness, had failed to recognize Jones as that man.
The suspicion must instantly arise that a plot had been carefully laid, with the purpose of putting the crime upon Jones.
Some enemy had signed his name on the register, and the same cruel wretch had decoyed Corbut to the vacant flat and murdered hi
