The story itself ran quite easily, naturally, consecutively--you could make it in sections.

And Spargo, sitting merely to listen, made them: 1.

The Temple porter and Constable Driscoll proved the finding of the body.
2.

The police surgeon testified as to the cause of death--the man had been struck down from behind by a blow, a terrible blow--from some heavy instrument, and had died immediately.
3.

The police and the mortuary officials proved that when the body was examined nothing was found in the clothing but the now famous scrap of grey paper.
4.