Chapter 91: The Crazy Ripper (5)
After learning of the intentions of the crowd, Mr. Baskerville looked a little cold. He told Prince Young and Inspector Lestrade that Anne had stolen something from him before he kicked her out of the house. She secretly exchanged pennies for her florin (a gold coin), and it was only after her friend Alyssa Coopa told him that he found out that Anne had done such a thing. After that, he threw Anne out.
During the conversation with Mr. Baskerville, his wife had been helping to serve tea and water, and judging from the relationship between the two, it seemed that the relationship between the two was okay.
After some small talk, Prince Young and Inspector Lestrade took their leave of Mr. Baskerville.
"Judging from Mr. Baskerville's performance, he does not have a very good impression of Anne, but it has not reached the point of killing her, and judging from the performance of the husband and wife, the relationship between the two is not bad, not as I thought before that Anne and Mr. Baskerville had an improper relationship, and the lost ring was given by Mr. Baskerville, and after the hostess found out about this relationship, someone killed Anne and took the ring. ”
"So what are we going to do next?"
"Then follow the clues given by Mr. Baskerville and talk to Anne's friend Cooper. ”
With the help of Inspector Lestrade, the two quickly found Cooper's home and rang the doorbell.
The door was opened by a woman in her thirties, with some bruises on her eyes.
It was only after talking with Ms. Coopa that the two had a general idea of what had happened a few days earlier.
A week before the deceased's death, Cooper found out that Anne had stolen her employer's gold coins and told her employer, and Anne was fired from her employer that afternoon, leaving her financial resources.
The next night, the two met at a bar, and Annie, who was out of breath, beat Coopa so hard that she bruised her eyes and chest, as their mutual friend Melia Palmer could attest, and Palmer had been in contact with Anne for the next few days, and she had not been in contact with her because she was angry.
When the two walked out of the Kupa house, Wang Ziyang said excitedly:
"The story is constantly restored, new clues are constantly emerging, one link after another, detective, don't you think it's very interesting?"
"No, I just want to get this damn case solved as soon as possible. ”
"Alright Inspector, sometimes human happiness is not the same, so you might as well lead the way to Palmer's quarters. ”
After the two interrogated Palmer, the image of Annie, an extremely depressed woman, appeared in front of them.
Palmer met Anne the day after the conflict between Anne and Cooper, who told Palmer about her conflict with Cooper, and told him that she was in a terrible situation and was about to go to her sister for a pair of boots to pawn.
On the third day, Palmer and Anne met again, and Anne had not eaten for a day and was about to go to the shelter for a few days, while Palmer gave his friend two pennies as tea money and warned him not to buy alcohol.
For the next two days, no one knew where Anne had gone, but it was likely that Anne had been in the shelter.
The day before the deceased's death, Palmer had met Anne, who was not drunk. Palmer asks Anne if she has been soliciting, to which Anne replies that she is not feeling well and cannot solicit. However, when Palmer had been away for a few minutes, he decided to return out of fear for Anne, but seeing Anne still standing there, said:
"I can't give up, I have to pull myself together and try to solicit customers, otherwise I won't have the money to pay the rent. ”
After that, all that came was the news of Anne's death.
It seems that Palmer is the one who genuinely cares about Anne, and after the two of them want Palmer to say "condolences", they leave Palmer's house.
By the time the two left Palmer's house, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon, and it stands to reason that Watson and his wife should have returned to 221B Baker Street to sort out clues, so Wang Ziyang and his wife decided to return to 221B Baker Street immediately to combine their clues with Watson's clues.
By the time they returned to 221B Baker Street, Watson and the young detective Anderson had already returned, and put the information in front of Wang Ziyang after he entered the room.
Wang Ziyang took the information handed over by Anderson, picked up the coffee Watson had just brewed, tasted it, and said:
"Watson, have you ever asked the apartment's night watchman about Anne?"
"Of course, he recalled, that at half past one in the morning he went upstairs to ask Anne for the rent, and Anne was eating baked potatoes and told him that she could not pay the rent yet, and promised to look for the money immediately, but the night watchman rebuked at the time, 'You have money to buy wine, but you don't have money to pay the rent?!' and Anne stood up, claiming that she would get the money immediately, and hoping that the night watchman would leave her a bed. With that, Anne left the apartment and headed for Spitalfield Market. ”
"And now that you know where Anne is, do you do any more in the direction of Spitalfield Market?"
"Of course, while we were asking around with a portrait of Anne, a lady named Elizabeth Lang said that she had seen Anne on her way to work, and Anne was talking to a man with his back to her and Anne facing the street, and the man said to Anne, 'Would you like to?' and Anne replied, 'All right.' Lang saw the big clock at the Black Hawk Brewery next door, so she was able to provide the exact time, which was half past four in the morning, and then she went to work at the market and didn't look back. ”
"It can be preliminarily inferred that Anne went out late at night to solicit customers without money to pay the rent, and the man that Ms. Lang saw should be the source of the 'money' that Anne said, and the same person who killed her. ”
"That's right. The three people around replied at the same time.
There are also a few facts that can be seen from the information.
First of all, you found a vial of medicine in Anne's room, which is usually distributed to refugees, so it is inferred that Anne must have been in the shelter.
Second, Anne was first married to a coachman named John, and they had two daughters and a boy, but the eldest daughter died of meningitis at the age of twelve. According to the police department, John gave Anne ten shillings by mail every month after Anne's 'long-term alcoholism and immoral life led to a breakdown of the relationship' so that Anne could live, and when Anne learned that John had died of cirrhosis, she was extremely depressed for the next two years, and it was at this time that she lost her financial resources and became a street prostitute. But judging from her performance in the past two years, she is still in love with John, so the ring on her hand that she has worn for many years should be given to her by John back then, so the clue of the ring is temporarily broken.
Thirdly, when the night watchman demanded the rent, Anne immediately stood up and claimed that she could get the money immediately, you know, a month's rent is not a small amount for Anne, it is not a 'transaction' that can be obtained once, so who gave her confidence?
Let's recall the first case, and some people have seen Mary proudly before she died, as if she had a large sum of money. If the murderer was a rich man, or seemed to be very rich, then when he and Anne agreed to make a deal, he would definitely give a lot of money, maybe enough to pay off the rent owed to the night watchman, and this is where Anne's confidence lies.
But I personally still think that Anne is no longer going to be in this business, and from the fact that she has found a serious job as a nanny, and what Palmer has seen, she only thinks of soliciting customers when she is at the height of her despair, it can be seen that she has made up her mind not to do these things. It was only under the urging of the night watchman that she had no choice but to get up again, but she didn't expect that this departure would become a farewell. ”
When the other three carefully thought about Wang Ziyang's words, they all agreed, and at this moment, the phone in the center of the living room suddenly rang.
When the prince got up to answer the phone, he realized that it was someone from the police station who was looking for Inspector Lestrade. Because the murder occurred in the early morning and was in a residential area, the impact was so bad that countless people condemned the police station for its poor handling of the police, which could neither find the murderer nor protect the people from harm. Among them, many people also linked the case to Mary's death, causing the royal family to put pressure on the police station again, ordering Inspector Lestrade to solve the case within a month, and also sent three additional detectives to investigate the case together, of course, they also have their own personal helpers, one of whom is the famous fiction writer Conan Doyle.
When Lestrade heard this, he was about to leave, and as a local police detective, he had to go and meet the three colleagues sent from above, and find out their details.
When Inspector Lestrade and Anderson left in a hurry, Prince Young sat back on his fluffy couch, smoking his pipe and reading the newspaper.
"Inspector Lestrade and the others are all jumping around in a hurry, and you are still sitting here leisurely reading the newspaper? Don't you like this kind of difficult case the most? Why don't you seize the opportunity to solve the case quickly? If the other three detectives solve the case before you......" Before Watson could finish speaking, Wang Ziyang interrupted him.
"There's no way they've caught the killer before me. As he spoke, the prince leaned over, looked at Watson with half of his face peeking out from behind the newspaper, and said:
"It will take a while for them to inquire about the evidence before they come, and it is estimated that it is the arrangement of the GMs, so the process will be so tight, otherwise it is impossible for ordinary cases to be committed once a day, so instead of stumbling in front of these evidences today, it is better to take a good rest and have a clear mind to look at the cases that will happen tomorrow. ”
"GM? What is that? What did they arrange? How can you be sure that there will be a case tomorrow?" Watson became confused after listening to Wang Ziyang's words, not knowing what Wang Ziyang was talking about.
Wang Ziyang just turned his head again, put the newspaper in front of him, and replied:
"Leave that alone, intuition, just intuition, my intuition tells me it's going to happen tomorrow. ”