GREAT UNSOLVED CRIMES (True Crime) by Castleden Rodney

Author:Castleden, Rodney [Castleden, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Canary Press
Published: 2011-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

I saw a man coming out of the alley [where the body was found two minutes later]. He was walking quickly but noiselessly, apparently wearing rubber shoes, which were rather rare in those days.

He was about five feet ten inches in height, and was dressed rather shabbily, though it was obvious that the material of his clothes was good. Evidently a man who had seen better days, I thought. His face was long and thin, nostrils rather delicate and his hair was jet black. His complexion was inclined to be sallow and altogether the man was foreign in appearance. The most striking thing about him was the extraordinary brilliance of his eyes. The man was slightly bent at the shoulders, though he was obviously quite young – about thirty-three at the most – and gave one the idea of having been a student or professional man. His hands were snow white, and the fingers long and tapering. As the man passed me at the lamp, I had an uneasy feeling that there was something more than usually sinister about him, and I was strongly moved to find some pretext for detaining him; but it was not in keeping with British police methods that I should do so . . . I had a sort of intuition that the man was not quite right. The man stumbled a few feet away from me, and I made that an excuse for engaging him in conversation. He turned sharply at the sound of my voice, and scowled at me in surly fashion, but he said ‘Good-night’ and agreed with me that it was cold.

His voice was a surprise to me. It was soft and musical, with a touch of melancholy in it, and it was the voice of a man of culture – a voice altogether out of keeping with the squalid surroundings of the East End.

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