Chapter 30
THE murder had been committed by somebody who had probably travelled in the next compartment and had made his or her way along the footboard and, first having shot the unfortunate man through the open window, had entered the carriage and rifled his pockets. The body was then rolled beneath the seat, and was not discovered until a passenger, entering the train at Ely, had been startled to find blood on the seat. The stationmaster at the little half-way junction where the Ely train drew up was certain that no doors were open; so it was obvious that the murder was committed in the vicinity of the junction, for the dead man's hat, by which he was identified, was found upon the road, two miles south of the junction.
"He was clearly trying to get out of the country secretly," report
