Chapter 54: The June Bride Murder (Part II)
Listening to Officer Twilight's words, Sonoko Suzuki thought back and said, "If it's half past one, it will be the time when Sheriff Matsumoto appeared here. ”
Meigong on the side said with a smile: "If this is the case, then the suspicion between me and the groom will be cleared, because the time when we meet the teacher is further back." ”
"In addition, there are doubts about the poisoned drink." Exceptionally, when an forensic officer said that he saw several people looking at him, he immediately held up the jar in his hand with the evidence bag and said, "The fingerprints of the sheriff and Meigong have not been found on this jar at all. ”
"Stupid, what nonsense are you talking about." Matsumoto Kiyocho cursed angrily, walked over to the TV, pressed the replay Ken, and stopped the video when the picture showed him holding the jar. "That's how I held the jar, how could it be that I didn't leave fingerprints."
Glancing at the picture on the TV, Twilight Thirteen looked at the forensic staff and said, "Have you checked it carefully?" ”
"Yes!" The forensic officer saw the picture on the TV, but still replied affirmatively: "We have checked it several times, and there are no fingerprints left by the sheriff on it, and I don't know why this happened." ”
"In that case, it means that there is something wrong with this!" A voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Hearing the sudden voice, Twilight Thirteen immediately looked over, and when he saw the person who came in, he immediately smiled and said, "Brother Yamamoto, you're here, she's okay with the sheriff's daughter?" ”
"It was fine half an hour ago!" Yoshizuru Yamamoto, who walked into the room, said, "The operation was successful half an hour ago, and Miss Matsumoto didn't do anything at all, so I waited until she woke up, chatted for a while, and rushed over to tell Sheriff Matsumoto the good news." That finger was really useful, and it cleaned up most of the toxins in Sayuri Matsumoto's body, so the operation was a quick success. If it weren't for the fact that there was a case to be solved here, he wouldn't have said anything and wouldn't have come over, so he would have called to inform him of the incident.
Hearing this, Mao Lilan happily said to Suzuki Sonoko next to him: "Great, teacher, she's fine!" ”
"Hmmm! It's really great! Sonoko Suzuki laughed happily as well.
"Thank you!" Matsumoto Kiyonaga just thanked Yoshitsuru Yamamoto and didn't say anything, but he had already kept this feeling in his heart and was ready to find an opportunity to repay it.
"Sheriff Matsumoto is gracious!" Yoshitsuru Yamamoto said and looked at the TV set next to him and said, "What's on this?" ”
Conan, who was standing in front of the TV, replied, "It's a videotape, and when the Maori sisters put the video recorder on their chairs, they recorded what happened, but unfortunately they didn't film the process of poisoning the prisoner." ”
"That's it!" Yoshizuru Yamamoto nodded, picked up the remote control placed in front of the TV, pressed the replay Ken, and watched it seriously.
"Officer, I found this thing in the trash can outside the hallway." A police officer walked in with a white handkerchief and a bottle as he spoke.
"Oh? It's a glass bottle, and the one inside looks like a desiccant! Twilight 13 took the bottle and looked at it, then reasoned, "This may be the container that the prisoner used to hold sodium hydroxide at the time, and as long as the sodium hydroxide is taken out and put into the air, it will quickly absorb water and become a liquid poison." ”
Speaking of which, Twilight Thirteen handed the bottle to the officer and said, "Okay, take this one and test it out to see if you can find anything." ”
The officer answered, then took the bottle and walked outside.
Yoshitsuru Yamamoto, who was watching the tape, suddenly said in a voice after seeing something different: "Officer Twilight, I think I already know who the prisoner is." ”
"Yes, Brother Yamamoto!" Twilight Thirteen quickly looked at Yamamoto Yoshitsuru and said, "So who is the prisoner?" ”
Instead of immediately saying who the culprit was, Yoshitsuru Yamamoto said, "Officer Twilight, I heard your conversation before, saying that it takes about 15 minutes for the capsule to melt, right?" ”
Although I don't know why Yoshitsuru Yamamoto asked this, Twilight Thirteen nodded and said, "Yes, it takes about 15 minutes for the capsule to dissolve, and it was 1:46 when Xiaolan went to call me at that time, and Miss Matsumoto collapsed 1 minute ago, that is, the time when the murderer poisoned was around 1:30." ”
"What I'm trying to say is, Officer Twilight, you may have entered a misconception." Yoshitsuru Yamamoto explained with a smile: "The presence of a capsule does not mean that the poison is in the capsule. It is also possible that the murderer put the capsule and the poison in the lemon tea separately in order to make you miscalculate the time of poisoning, thinking that the poisoning time was 15 minutes before Matsumoto fell, so that you could be excluded from suspicion. ”
After listening to Yamamoto Yoshizuru's words, Twilight Thirteen still didn't understand the meaning, so he immediately looked at Mei Gong and the prospective groom and said, "If it's true, they may also be suspects?" ”
"Hey, wait a minute!" Mei Gongma retorted: "What he said is just another speculation, and the poison may also be in the capsule, right?" ”
"Brother Yamamoto?" Twilight Thirteen knew that what Mei Gong said was reasonable, and immediately looked at Yamamoto Yoshitsuru.
"Officer Twilight, please watch the footage again, but this time you'll have to keep an eye on the lemon tea jar." Yoshitsuru Yamamoto said and pressed the redial button to let the tape play again.
Twilight Thirteen listened to Yoshizuru Yamamoto's words and immediately walked over to the TV and watched the picture carefully.
When the lemon tea can appeared in the picture, he didn't let it go, but looked very carefully, and when he saw the lemon tea can on the table, he couldn't help but bend his head and look carefully. "Ahh Sign.. The direction of the label is different! ”
Looking at the surprised Officer Twilight, Yoshizuru Yamamoto looked at Sonoko Suzuki and said, "Miss Sonoko, I think you must have put a can of lemon tea on the table when you went out, right?" ”
"Hmm.." Suzuki Sonoko thought about it carefully and said, "I remember that when Xiaolan ran out and said that she wanted to buy a battery, I chased it out and put the lemon tea jar on the table casually. Yes, I remember it was on the table. ”
Mao Lilan said in surprise: "Could it be that the jar was drunk by the garden?" ”
"That's right, the reason why you only see one jar is because the two jars overlap each other." Yoshitsuru Yamamoto nodded and said, "I think Miss Matsumoto must have taken the wrong lemon tea and got the can of Miss Sonoko." The evidence is that the jar that Miss Matsumoto is holding should have the fingerprints of Mr. Mei Gong and Sheriff Matsumoto on it, but the poisonous jar does not have the fingerprints of the two of them at all, and some are only the fingerprints of Miss Sonoko. ”
The forensic police officer holding the jar chimed in: "He's right, there are indeed the little girl's fingerprints on it." ”
Sheriff Matsumoto said with some clarity, "You mean, after my daughter took the wrong thing, between the time she fell down, someone put the poison and the separate capsules in separate jars, didn't you?" ”
"That's right!" Yoshitsuru Yamamoto nodded and said, "According to the videotape, there were four people next to Miss Matsumoto at that time: Conan, Miss Sonoko, Xiaolan and Mr. Takasugi Toshihiko, if Conan is excluded, the suspects will become three people." ”
Sonoko Suzuki said suddenly, "I remember that when we came back, the jar was in Mr. Takayama's hand, and then Matsumoto-sensei took it over, and it has been in her hand ever since. ”
Mao Lilan nodded in agreement and said, "What the garden said is right, when we came in, the jar was in Mr. Takayama's hand. But is the prisoner really Mr. Takayama? Aren't they getting married today? ”
Yoshitsuru Yamamoto shook his head and said, "Don't forget, there is another person who can also be poisoned. ”
Twilight Thirteen quickly asked, "Who is that?" ”
"It's Miss Matsumoto!" Conan, who had not spoken beside him, spoke up, "The jar is in Miss Matsumoto's hand, so of course she has a chance." ”
Twilight Thirteen couldn't help but say, "In that case, she killed herself?" ”
"How is that possible?!" Matsumoto Kiyoshi shook his head and said, "Impossible, Sayuri has no reason to commit suicide." ”
Yoshitsuru Yamamoto shook his head and said, "If Miss Matsumoto was poisoned for suicide, it should have been put before she fell, and if so, then there should be something that is indispensable." ”
"It's a container and desiccant that can be sealed!" Twilight Thirteen suddenly realized.
"That's right, after a few minutes in the air, sodium hydroxide becomes a completely liquefied dangerous drug. Miss Matsumoto has been in this room all the time, and if she needs to keep it safe, then she needs a container with desiccant inside. However, the container was found in the trash can in the hallway, which means that someone other than Miss Matsumoto had brought poison to the room. Speaking of this, Yamamoto Yoshitsuru looked at Takasugi Toshihiko and said, "In other words, the person who poisoned that jar of lemon tea is you, Mr. Takasugi." There is no one else but you! ”
"Toshihiko, could it be you?!" Kazumi Takenaka, who was next to Takasugi Toshihiko, looked at Takasugi Toshihiko in disbelief, she couldn't believe that the person who poisoned her turned out to be this man.
Matsumoto Kiyoshi ran up to Takasugi Toshihiko, grabbed him tightly with both hands, and roared loudly: "You say, why are you doing this, why are you doing this to my daughter, you say you!" ”
"Smack!" Reaching out to open Matsumoto Kiyoshi's hands, Takasugi Toshihiko sneered and said with sadness, "I want you to taste the same!" Twenty years ago, when you were chasing the prisoner's car, it suddenly rushed over, but it caused the death of my innocent mother, do you remember? Even if she was hit, my mother was still alive at that time, and as long as she went to the hospital in a police car, she could still be saved. ”