The turning point in this case came -

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"'Your Excellency, in connection with the suspicious case of the murder of William Kershaw, which took place between 6.15 p.m. and 8.45 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 December, I now propose to call two witnesses who had seen the same same William Kershaw alive on Tuesday afternoon of 16 December, six days after the so-called murder. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info’”

The words exploded like a bomb in the courtroom. The judge was stunned, and I believe the lady sitting next to me recovered from the shock and wondered if she needed to postpone her dinner appointment. As for myself—"

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"Huh?"

Motohiko Izawa stood up from his seat, puzzled.

According to Mrs. William's account, William went to see Messer on the 12th, the time he returned to England in the letter, after which William was killed by Messers.

Then the body was found on the 31st, with a gap of nearly twenty days in between, and just now, whether the police or the mover were witnesses, they all locked up the possible crime of Merther XII, and now someone had seen William on the afternoon of the 16th, so all the previous reasoning was overturned.

Motohiko Izawa didn't look at it right away, and then couldn't think of a word for a while, but the old man looked like I had expected it a long time ago, and said that he had already seen where the blind spot of this case was.

However, Motohiko Izawa racked his brains and thought about it, but he still didn't know what blind spots there were in the description just now.

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"Well, you know, I already knew where the blind spots were in this particular case, so I'm not as surprised as some people. As you may recall, the case turned out to be so shocking that it completely threw the police – in fact, everyone but me – into the fog.

Dorilny, the owner of a restaurant on Commercial Road, and a waiter both testified that at about half past three on the afternoon of December 10, a man dressed in rags slouched into the coffee room and ordered a cup of tea. He was delighted, and talked a lot, telling the waiter that his name was William Kershaw, and soon all London would talk about him, for he was about to become a very rich man by some unexpected good fortune, and so on and so forth. ”

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Motohiko Izawa thought of an evil possibility, whether it was Messerst, a rich man, who bribed these two people and made them perjury.

Because before, I left the impression that the testimony was true, and I used this to make a bad impression.

This kind of statement he said is actually quite common, such as the famous work "The Mystery of Roger" by the queen of reasoning Agatha, the first person narrates the case at the beginning, and European and American mystery novels like to do this, but in the end, the murderer turned out to be the "me" in the book, and the reader can only sigh after reading it, this is obviously a poor impression, and the professional term is narrative trickery.

However, if "The Old Man in the Corner" was written like this, it would not have been possible to have this status, and the next moment the physical evidence also came up, and ruthlessly cut off the narrative trickery that Motohiko Izawa thought, William was in the hotel, and left an umbrella, so he had to come back to get it.

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"Sure enough, about a week later, on Tuesday the sixteenth, about one o'clock in the afternoon, the same man in tattered and scruffy clothes came again, asking for his umbrella to be retrieved. He had some food, and then he chatted with the waiter. The description of William Kershaw by Dorilny and the waiter is exactly what Mrs. Kershaw described of her husband. ”

Strangely enough, he seemed to be a very absent-minded man, for this time, as soon as he left, the waiter found a small wallet under the table in the café-room, which contained many letters and bills, addressed to William Kershaw. The wallet was taken out in court at the time, and Karl Retler, who had returned to the courtroom, easily identified it as his dear and mournful friend 'William'. ”

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There is a wallet as evidence, which is enough to prove that what the waiter said is true, and it would be too reluctant to make this matter false at this time.

Motohiko Izawa didn't believe that an author with such a style of writing and such a comfortable plot would do such a thing, even if he didn't know the ability of the anonymous author.

So what's next?

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"This is the first blow in this prosecution case, and you have to admit that it is a pretty strong blow. The police's accusations against millionaires, like a house made of cards, have begun to crumble. However, the date did exist, and Messer and Kershaw undoubtedly met, and both doubts and two and a half hours in the fog had yet to be satisfactorily explained. ”

After a long pause, Paulie sat on pins and needles. He kept fiddling with the string in his hand until every inch was covered with very intricate, delicate knots.

"I assure you," he continued, "that at that moment the whole mystery was as clear to me as daylight. ”

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"Actually, I hate this kind of detective saying how simple it is, how it is like this, it is simply a feeling of showing off. ”

Because Motohiko Izawa feels that his IQ doesn't seem to be as high as he imagined, well, if it is well written, it will not be so annoying.

For example, Sherlock Holmes, he actually showed off from his appearance to the end of the crime, from beginning to end, and even every strand of hair, and then he became synonymous with intelligence.

As for this...... Well, Motohiko Izawa won't say anything.

Next, Buck, who had been in the past, and Messer who was now, denied all of Lady William's previous claims.

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Messer had by this time shaken off his sleepiness and was speaking in a strange nasal voice and a slight foreign accent that was almost imperceptible. He calmly denied Kershaw's claims of his past, claiming that he had never been called Buck and had certainly never been involved in any murder thirty years earlier. ”

"'But you know the man Kershaw?' the judge continued, 'because you wrote to him. ’”

"'I'm sorry, Your Honor,' said the defendant calmly, 'as far as I know, I have never met this man named Kershaw, and I can swear that I have never written to him. ’”

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Well, Rashomon, in this case, you must not listen to anyone's one-sided words, you have to judge.

In the presence of his lawyer and the judge, Messer took out the letter he had just written when he came to England, as well as the letter written on the spot.

After comparing the expert group, sure enough, this Metherster's note, and the two letters handed over by Lady William, the notes were not written by one person at all.

Twists and turns, twists and turns, Motohiko Izawa now agrees with the unsolved case of Fenque Qu Street mentioned at the beginning of the novel, which is really magical. (To be continued.) )