XXXVIAgnes Masterman’s statement:
“I am making this statement because there is nothing else I can do. Mr. Porlock and Mr. Carroll were bad men. Perhaps they deserved to die—I don’t know. My old cousin never did anyone any harm. You can’t kill people just because they are bad, or because they are in your way. You can’t let innocent people suffer. I can’t let Mr. Oakley be arrested, because I know that he is innocent. There are things you can do, and things you can’t. I can’t let him be arrested.
We went upstairs at about ten minutes to ten. I didn’t know what to do. I had to talk to my brother, but I was afraid—I was very much afraid. I had been thinking about the money—my old cousin’s money. She didn’t mean us to have it—at least she didn’t mean Jeffrey to have it—and she made another wi
