human
Incidentally, this murderer, the man who killed Miller, is not very original. I remember a case in Germany in which a robber entered a house using just that means, a rope, a chimney and climbing irons. Yes, yes. It has all been done before. I did not need all the clues I found on the window and outside the house. The powder marks were enough. The killer was too hasty or too careless or too ignorant. He might not have known that there is an enormous difference between powder marks inflicted when the muzzle is two inches away and those inflicted when the muzzle of the weapon is twelve inches away. The powder marks alone, without any other factors, that slight difference of a few inches, might make the difference between life and death for the murderer.
gpt
And the two other men, Professor?
human
Of the two other men, snapped Professor Brierly, impatiently,
gpt
I know no more than you, and little is known about their deaths right now.
human
But don't you think,
gpt
You don't mean, don't I think, Mr. Hale, jeered Professor Brierly.
human
You mean don't I guess. No, I never guess. I leave that for highly imaginative newspaper men, or, he waved his hand sarcastically at his grinning assistant,
gpt
Well, there's not much question about one of them, the one who was drowned at Bradley Beach. That seems like an honest drowning. But August Schurman, from our information, apparently hanged himself in his study in one of those old houses on the lower west side.