As I entered the library I saw a figure steal
across the room and disappear inside a closet. I was very
frightened, but had sense enough left to cross softly to the
closet and lock the door." She paused in her rapid recital and
drew a long breath, then continued more slowly:
"I hurried to the window and across the street I saw a policeman
standing under a lamp-post. It took but a minute to call him. The
policeman opened the closet door, put handcuffs on Mr. Turnbull and
took him away."
Coroner Penfield, as well as the jurors, followed her statement
with absorbed attention. At its end he threw down his pencil and
spoke briefly to the deputy coroner, who had been busily engaged in
taking notes of the inquest, and then he turned to Helen.
"You heard no sound before entering the library?"
"No one walking about the house?" he persisted.
"No." She followed the negative with a short explanation. "I lay
down on my bed soon after dinner, not feeling very well, and slept
through the early hours of the night."
"At what hour did you wake up?"
"About four o'clock, or a little after.
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