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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER III
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He need not be called to give evidence unless we think it to be of importance, but he had better be in attendance.

The prisoners are remanded until this day week." An hour later the three prisoners, handcuffed, were driven under an escort of three armed constables to Croydon Jail.

When again brought up in court the passengers on the coach identified the articles taken from them; the coachman gave evidence of the stopping of the coach, and of the shooting of the guard.

The head constable testified that he had searched the Rectory from top to bottom, and found nothing whatever of a suspicious nature.

None of the passengers were able to testify to the two elder prisoners as the men who had robbed them, as these had been masked, but the height and dress corresponded to those of the prisoners; and the two Bow Street runners then came forward, and gave evidence that the two elder prisoners were well known to them.


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