Murder to Music by Margaret Newman

Author:Margaret Newman [Newman, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Agora Books
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Dear Sir (the letter read),

I shall sign this letter Mary Smith, but it is not my real name, for reasons which you will appreciate in a moment. I am writing in connection with the death of Owen Burr, the conductor, in the RFH on Saturday, and I am writing because I do not want anyone to be accused of the murder unjustly. I shot him, with his own pistol which I took from his room a month ago. I am expecting a baby in May and Owen was its father. I only let him because he said he would marry me, and he was the first. And then he told me that he was going to be a great musician and not a trollop’s husband and I was very angry because he would not marry me.

He told me on Saturday, and I went with the pistol, but I did not mean to shoot him but only to frighten him by threatening to shoot myself. But he would not see me in the interval, and, while I was listening, the music gave me a headache, and I was very unhappy, and I shot him. Now I am sorry, and I will always be sorry, but it is too late to do anything except see that no one else gets the blame instead of me. I suppose they wouldn’t be able to hang me now, but I do not want to go to prison either, and that is why I have borrowed someone else’s typewriter and shall post this where I do not live, but it is true all the same.

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