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Mr. Freems (body):I arrived to find the foreman dead, and the lad, Dooley, with bloody hands. No one's been able to find the murder weapon and arrest the murderer. Could you sort it out quickly? It's holding up the work.
Mr. Freems (workers):They're a rough bunch, but someone has to keep the kids in line. I just wish the grown-ups would quit fighting each other!
Buck (Dooley):I was standing there, having a think, when a fella come at me and give me a thumpin'. Dooley tries to stop 'im, and he thrashes Dooley! I run out to find help.
Buck (body):When I come back, the man's lyin' dead and there's Dooley holding a knife! Please don't arrest him!
Buck (knife):That's Dooley's knife, all right. He never lent it to nobody.
Dooley (Buck):He's me brother. He don't like to work hard, so one of the workers give him a thrashin'. I tried to stop it, and he stops hitting Buck and starts hittin' me!
Dooley (body):He knocks me to the ground and give me a kick. I find my work-knife under me and grab it. I lift me hands to protect meself, and he knocks me out with a punch! Later on, I wakes up, and the man's lying there, dead!
Wilkins' body – A deep stab wound to the chest. A bandana obscures the victim's face.
Letter
It has come to our attention that one of your workmen, a certain Mr. Coulton, has been beating the child laborers. Our society finds this to be a matter of concern, as do you, no doubt. Please take action to curtail the practice. – Miss Clara O'Dea
Knife – Small knife with the initial 'D' crudely scratched into the handle.
Mr. Freems (Wilkins):Wilkins wasn't the type to beat the children. On the contrary, he was forever getting in fights trying to stop that sort of thing.
Mr. Freems (bandana):The fumes can be a bit much in the brewery. When the men work in there, they wear bandanas.
Taylor (footprints):Me and Wilkins was working out here. We heard screamin'. Wilkins went to see what it was about and never come back. I went to see for meself and there he was, dead! I didn't stick around, somebody might think I done it!
Taylor (bandana):The strange thing is—Wilkins weren't wearin' no bandana when I was talkin' to him. Only the workmen in the brewery wear bandanas. You should talk to Morris there.
Taylor (Cigarette):I quit smokin' months ago. You know, I saw somebody from the brewery havin' a smoke this mornin'. Didn't see who it was, though.
Morris (bandana):Well, I was inside the brewery all day. I wear me bandana in there. A man has to, what with all the smells and fumes.
Morris (cigarette):I don't much know who smokes here. Maybe Taylor? Cigarette might be his.
Morris (cigarette):Well, like I said, I was inside. Didn't get a chance to come out to smoke. Coulton left, though. You could talk to him. He's working in the loading area just now.
Coulton (Wilkins):I was having a chat with one of the others when I heard a commotion and ran in there to find Wilkins dead. Poor bloke, killed by that filthy, little bastard that we feed and pay!
Coulton (cigarette):I don't smoke. Never did.
Coulton (cigarette):Oh, very well. So I do smoke now and then. What's it matter?
Medium footprint – The imprint of a medium-sized worker's boot. The imprint is marked by pebbles of coal and coal dust making it possible to follow the tracks.
Large footprint – The imprint of a large worker's boot.
The murderer was Coulton, unhappy with his superior.
Case Summary
An altercation between a boy and a workman ends in death for the workman! The boy remembers lifting a knife, but not the actual killing. Did he do it? No! In fact, the dead worker, one John Wilkins, heard screams and ran to offer assistance. Once there he found the boy unconscious and another workman, Tom Coulton, standing unharmed. But Coulton, long angry with Wilkins, thought fast and stabbed the man with the boy's knife. He then put his own bandana over Wilkins' face! Quick thinking, however, did not win out. Coulton has been unmasked as the murderer! – Henry Raymond
