[Scene I] Barely time for a drink...
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Re: [Scene I] Barely time for a drink...
Removing the tablecloth Grimes flinches at the visage. He closes his eyes and opens them again.
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The doctor had apparently sugar-coated the description as there was ladies present. The sight before Grimes was truly nightmarish, he'd seen worse of course but the ferocity of the attack left his throat dry and scratchy. Hector had been cruelly desecrated. His neck, showed swollen bruising and lay at an unnatural angle, the spine snapped by brute force.
The mutilation was worse, the jagged shard of coffee cup still protruded from one eye-socket. The eyes had been ruined - gouged and torn at and the bloody remains smeared on the floor next to the corpse. The throat opened almost back to the vertebrae, white bone stark amongst the red gore.
Hornley was in his early twenties, in reasonable physical shape, a little scrawny perhaps. He wears a cheap dark suit and a collarless shirt underneath. Grimes notices a bulge in the jacket pocket.
The mutilation was worse, the jagged shard of coffee cup still protruded from one eye-socket. The eyes had been ruined - gouged and torn at and the bloody remains smeared on the floor next to the corpse. The throat opened almost back to the vertebrae, white bone stark amongst the red gore.
OOC: Above: Hornley, as was... |
OOC: Anyone else stepping into the apartment will also need to make a 1 point stability check (4+ target) until the body is re-covered. |
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Felix enters, his camera held to his eye, and takes several flash photographs, screwing in a "Sashalite" bulb each time into his Kodak Brownie Hawkeye; "Ouch!" he exclaims quietly when, despite his handkerchief, he burns the tip of one finger. He does as Grimes instructs and examines the objects.
OOC: Also, is it worth while for Felix to use Evidence Collection as well as Grimes? |
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Felix holds his nerve when he snaps a photograph of the poor boy. He kneels beside Grimes and the mutilated Hector Hornley. "Sir," he says to Grimes, "I have some experience at Forensics--do you mind?" Felix examines the body.
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"No trouble..." Grimes checks the pockets of the boy and extracts the contents. "What do we have here?"
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Millicent almost shows annoyance as Felix seems to shoulder her aside in what she sees as an unnecessary haste to enter the room. However she resists, but does crack a small smile of satisfaction as Felix burns his fingers on the flashbulb.
From the depths of her bag she produces a small notebook and a pencil. After several moments of thought she writes,
The detective, in a show of cool professionalism, slowly begins to remove the blood soaked cloth that had been used to cover the victims torn and mutilated face.
Then with a firm shake of her head she crosses out the writing, closes the notebook and returns it and the pencil to her bag.
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Felix produces a small kits from his reporter's satchel and moves with a practiced ease. Grimes looks impressed, shame he put his talents to digging the dirt and garnering the next big scoop instead of serving the people.
Grimes returned his focus to the pocket and lifted clear a the contents, a cheap leather coin purse containing a meagre amount of change and a folded envelope, The envelope is addressed to Hector Hornley but is empty. The return address written on the back is ‘Calloway & Sons Rare Books, High Street, Oxford’.
Grimes returned his focus to the pocket and lifted clear a the contents, a cheap leather coin purse containing a meagre amount of change and a folded envelope, The envelope is addressed to Hector Hornley but is empty. The return address written on the back is ‘Calloway & Sons Rare Books, High Street, Oxford’.
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"Thank you," Amanda tells Millicent, a bit relieved. "I'm sure Jacqueline would put me up, but I couldn't bother her at this time of night. If she is home, she could be asleep right now, but knowing her it's more likely that she's out having fun somewhere. So I will take you up on that offer." When Millicent goes inside with the others, Amanda remains in the hall. Not only has she not been invited inside, but she dreads seeing someone she knew in the state described by the police.
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OOC: Airbornexo, everyone, how about another topic, which we all can access, for clues? There's the burnt objects, the envelope, the details of Hornley's murder . . . |
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Sam tries to hide his discomfort and shock seeing two of the others enter the poor murdered man's room. Highly unorthodox, "I hope Grimes knows what he's doing, that press fellow could cause him all kinds of problems... what on earth is he breaking with procedure for?" he wonders.
"Perhaps we should wait with the landlady?" he suggests to Amanda seeing the young singer makes no move to enter Hornley's room. "Might as well try and keep the constable occupied, no telling what trouble he'd stir up if he 'blabs' about the break in procedure back at the station." he concludes.
With a somewhat forced smile he indicates to Amanda to go first.
Sam tries to hide his discomfort and shock seeing two of the others enter the poor murdered man's room. Highly unorthodox, "I hope Grimes knows what he's doing, that press fellow could cause him all kinds of problems... what on earth is he breaking with procedure for?" he wonders.
"Perhaps we should wait with the landlady?" he suggests to Amanda seeing the young singer makes no move to enter Hornley's room. "Might as well try and keep the constable occupied, no telling what trouble he'd stir up if he 'blabs' about the break in procedure back at the station." he concludes.
With a somewhat forced smile he indicates to Amanda to go first.
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Careful of her tread so as not to disturb any vital clues, she is aware that would be a bad thing, Millicent scans the room, aware that there is little likelyhood of her noticing something that the police had not, but looking anyway.
Grimes, she notes, is still engaged in what she can only describe as a most professional search of the corpse.
Millicent thinking: Note to self: See the way the expert does it, slowly and with meticulous precision |
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Sam and Amanda head upstairs to the apartment of the landlady Mrs. Pelletoot, Amanda leads the way her feet automatically stepping on the creaking stair-treads.
Meanwhile downstairs...
Meanwhile downstairs...
OOC: Keeper note 1: There are two officers at the scene (Allen in the apartment upstairs and Alexander in the downstairs hallway keeping watch over the crime scene and the front door. Keeper note 2: All the clues are now summarised in the Notebooks and Sketchpads thread (thanks Tabs) |
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Felix looks up at Millicent from where he is crouching beside the corpse. "Yes, I believe so, Ms. Broadacre. One should choose one's friends more wisely--avoid the maniacs, if at all possible," he says with a thin lipped smile; Felix's attempt at humour is so droll it is hardly funny at all. He adds: "Oh, Ms. Broadacre, if I knocked into you a while back, I do beg your pardon, but I was a little shocked by the poor boy."
He says to Grimes: "Calloway & Sons Rare Books--I love literature, but I've never heard of them?" Felix takes a wander round the apartment, looking for old tomes. He also checks out the spine of the burnt book, can he read its title?
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Millicent's ears perk up at Felix's words, Calloway and Son's rare books, maybe she has heard of them somewhere?
She smiles, an unconvincing smile at the kneeling journalist, "Oh...think nothing of it, old chap"
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"Yes, Constable, I know her," says Amanda. She moves over to the landlady and gently puts a hand on her shoulder, speaking to her in a soothing, silken voice. "Mrs. Pelletoot, it's me, Amanda. It's going to be all right." She glances down at the teacup. "Would you like some more tea? I could put the kettle on."
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Sam folds his overcoat across the back of a chair and places his hat on the seat, nods to the constable in a friendly manner.
"A good idea, I'll put the kettle on.." he replies after Amanda makes the suggestion. "Would you like a cuppa Constable? Or do you have to go and take a turn on the front door?" he nods with his head indicating that it would be all-right for the young policeman to leave the poor landlady in their care.
Sam folds his overcoat across the back of a chair and places his hat on the seat, nods to the constable in a friendly manner.
"A good idea, I'll put the kettle on.." he replies after Amanda makes the suggestion. "Would you like a cuppa Constable? Or do you have to go and take a turn on the front door?" he nods with his head indicating that it would be all-right for the young policeman to leave the poor landlady in their care.
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Amanda takes off her coat and hangs it up, then kneels in front of Mrs. Pelletoot and takes her hands in her own. "I know, it's simply dreadful," she says, gazing up into the landlady's eyes as tears start to well. "I wouldn't have been able to bear seeing what you saw. Mr. Hornley was such a nice man, too. But the monster who did this will not escape justice. Scotland Yard is on the case, and they won't rest until he's caught. But they're going to need your help. You're going to need to tell them what you saw. Even if you don't think it's significant, it may be just the clue they need. We don't have to be helpless. We have it within our power to do our part." She squeezes her hands lightly. "I'll be with you the whole time, Mrs. Pelletoot. We can face this together."
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Downstairs all the investigators hear the front door open and a conversation between the new arrival and Constable Alexander. Faint snatches of which can be heard in the downstairs apartment..."Grimes? He's popular tonight!..."
"I know...."
"What? Really! Like London buses eh 'Arry!..."
"Yeah just seen young Arnold outside, looking a bit green the lad....Haha I know..."
"Where? That door there?" Footsteps approach the door...
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"What? Really! Like London buses eh 'Arry!..."
"Yeah just seen young Arnold outside, looking a bit green the lad....Haha I know..."
"Where? That door there?" Footsteps approach the door...
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Conscious of Samuel Reed's comments about a journalist inappropriately taking fingerprints at a crime scene, Felix stows his powder and brush. He busies himself by checking out Hornley's books and effects, "What was he a student of?" he wonders.
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