Agnes: A Tale of the Streets — page 260: what you’re looking at

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AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. “ Gentlemen,” said Sir Roderick Dalham to the creditors, when the detective offivor had disap- peared with his prisoner, “I regret that I have not succeeded in obtaining for you a recognition of your just claims; but though hitherto the vil- lain has remained hardened, you have yet in your favour the chances of what the influence of a felon’s gaol may accomplieh.” . CITATTRR XXXVI. Mh THE CHAIN YF EVIDENOE. WE may now proceed to Ogtail the circumstances which ultimately led to th&arrest of Mr. Tim- perléy on the very serious ch of having been the murderer of the woman Chifklade. The private communication{ which the valet No. 79.—AGNES. 209 EL ARS: i mh sf ee ‘ii te Ae I f a | iy “ee ; James Nash made to Sir Roderick Dalham, was to the following effect :—~“ 1 remember that on the very day when that woman was assassinated, I saw Mr. Timperley in conversation with her. I know it was the same woman, because I subsequently went and saw her corpse at the public-house where the inquest was held. It waa also in the -very lane where the woman was found dead that I saw Mr. Timperley with her. It was also at such an hour in the afternoon, that considering other cir- cumstances which were proved on Lady Dalham’s (Winifred’s) trial, might well agree with the sup- position that Mr. ‘Timperley was the murderer. Io did not notice me at the time; because I was re- turning hastily to the villa from an errand on which I had been sent by Sir John Daiham—and I forced my way through the hedgo a little higher up in the lane in Sor to take a short cut across the fields. Whén I afterwards heard that the , Woman had be found murdered, I did not fora Vou Il. comiclbookks.co@m