Chapter 18 Suspected Thief

Que Haotian carried a camera bag and a survey box and walked to the hall on the first floor of the bathhouse. Xu Jin and Wu Tianfang followed.

He glanced at it and asked:

"Xu Suo, is the monitoring good?"

"It's good, but it's not on—Mr. He wants to save electricity. If there was surveillance, it would be much easier..."Xu Jin glanced at the thin man standing by the bar.

"It's all my fault, I let it be closed. Alas - business is too light, you can save it ... How did you come up with such a thing? It's really 'trouble' for the leaders. Boss He said, and began to send "electric poles".

"You smoke two packs less, and you save them all! - I'm going to work, not pumping. After refusing, put down the suitcase and bag, and carefully checked the "bath structure diagram" on the wall?

"Mr. He, how many people have you invited?" Tianfang asked, taking out his notebook.

"There were 11 people in total, plus me and my wife. 1 male and 1 male bathing area; 3 bar counters; upstairs there are two floors, two waiters on each floor, and the fourth floor is a dormitory; Two boiler masters. There is not much business, and people are using it, barely 'working in two shifts'. Boss He calculated:

"Last night, there were only 6 people on the night shift. 2 bathing areas, 1 bar; Two waiters, 1 master. ”

"When did the guest find out about the theft? Which room to stay in? Que Yi asked.

"It was past 5 o'clock this morning. He lives in 208 and is a 'regular guest'. Boss He said:

"Nothing like this has ever happened in my store, Xu knows?"

"Mr. He called the police at noon, and he first checked the 'inside' for a morning." Xu Jindao:

As soon as he arrived at the scene, he complained to the boss for "calling the police - slow"...

"I'm so embarrassed to give the leaders a lot of trouble. I was going to admit some losses - wipe it out, but the guest has to 'report'? Boss He said frustratedly.

"Money is a trivial matter, the key is my documents, cards, and IOUs, and I can't find them - it's too much trouble!" An out-of-town accent sounded in the doorway.

"This is the victim - Wang Daohan, the 'big boss' who does the landscape stone business." Xu introduced:

"This is Inspector Que and Inspector Wu of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, specially for your business-rushed here!"

"Thank you so much, please help find out... I will send you pennants and invite you leaders to dinner! Wang Daohan said eagerly.

Wu Tianfang looked at the "boss" in front of him—

Looking at his clothes and temperament, he is a small businessman at best, and he doesn't have that wealth and arrogance?

People can't look like - there are those who deliberately keep a "low profile". A landscape stone often costs five or six figures...

"Eat — it's free. Pennant - wait for the case to be solved? Que Haotian looked directly at the king who had sunken eye sockets:

"You take me to the room—take a look?"

"Inspector Que, the 'scene' is handed over to you. Shall I talk to Boss He? Wu Tian said.

"......" Que waved "OK" with his right hand, and then took the equipment - go to the stairs...

Room 208 has a locked door and no signs of climbing on the windows. The floor was littered with shoe prints. According to Wang Daohan, a lot of people came in - helped find bags; The handbag is placed on the inside of the bed - and it is gone.

Que Haotian is familiar with such "small scenes" in surveying. In less than 1 hour, he packed up the guys and went downstairs to find Wu Tian to release them?

"How? Is there something on site? Xu asked expectantly.

Que Yi understands:

The "things" that Xu Jin asked about refer to valuable traces and physical evidence, such as handprints, footprints, and so on.

He shook his head and spread his hands out:

"A group of people did a disservice—the ground was 'a mess', and the handprints were Wang Daohan's own, so they were of little value."

"That's... I listened to Wang Daohan, he finished playing mahjong and returned to the room - want to put the winning cash into his handbag? He found that the bag was gone, and that the furnishings in the room were exactly the same as when he went to play cards at 8 o'clock in the evening, and he didn't feel 'turned'. This shows that the perpetrator entered the door - got the handbag, and left, without any superfluous movements. Xu Jin paused for a moment and continued to analyze:

"The door lock is good. The key is only him and the waiter - there is. I asked the waitress on duty, and she said that around ten o'clock, she went to the dormitory on the fourth floor to get a thick coat and left for more than ten minutes. I suspect that this is the right time for the case. The perpetrator retrieved the key from the bar, opened the door-burglary, and then put the keychain back at the bar and fled the scene. Ten minutes — enough! But who can be so 'accurate'? You say - is it strange? ”

"Xu Suo - it's not strange to talk about it!" Thief's—" Que grinned and said:

"I tried standing at the door of the room, and according to the position of the bag pointed out by Wang Daohan, as soon as the person enters the door, he holds on to the bed - he can get to the bag, and he doesn't need to go inside and turn it in.

The problem is at the 'door'? The king left with the door locked, and came back - he entered with the door open; His key was never gone; There are no prying marks on the door – the biggest possibility:

As you just analyzed, the perpetrator opened the door with a 'key', and it was the one on the bar keychain!

Of course, technical lockpicking - is it possible? This needs to be disassembled and inspected, in order to be further determined, can it be put to the next step?

I think, suppose it is - use the bar key to open the door and 'commit the crime', the most suitable for committing the crime is - the waiter on duty? Or the waiter was involved in the crime? It's hard for others to do it alone..."

"She 'lied' to me—" Xu said angrily.

The waitress looked honest, calm and innocent, and "deceived" him. He hadn't thought about it at all before?

"Is it a 'thief', not necessarily? I think it's imperative to get a few things clear:

One is the 208 room key - how many are there? Second, who were there after 8 o'clock last night - went to the second floor, or stayed in the upstairs room? The third is which people left after the incident..."Que Haotian said cautiously.

"I'll tell you—" Wu Tianfang approached the two and answered:

"There are 'two' keys, one - Wang Daohan holds it, and the other hangs on the bar keychain. I asked Boss He, last night Wang stayed alone, and the other guests took a shower - they all left. The proprietress was idle, so she called Wang Daohan and the two waiters on the second and third floors to accompany her to 'play mahjong'.

There was also a waitress on duty at the bar at the time. Que, why can't you think of 'who she is'? ”

"You don't sell off, are you-I know?" Que Haotian is white, take a look!

"I didn't expect that she was actually the 'Liu Guanglan' who died the butcher's husband that year!" Wu Tianfang was afraid that Inspector Que would not be able to remember, so he added:

"On the second day of Valentine's Day in 06, in Miaoling Village, Beifu Town, a butcher named 'Yuan Mingjun' committed suicide... We're both out to the police. ”

"How- how is that possible? Will she come to 'Arrow Mountain' to work? Que Yi showed a surprised expression of "quite disbelief"?