That revolver, shown to Mr.Ashley's valet, was sworn to by him as being the property of his master.
"All these facts made, of course, a very remarkable, so far quite unbroken, chain of circumstantial evidence against Mr.John Ashley.

No wonder, therefore, that the police, thoroughly satisfied with Mr.
Fisher's work and their own, applied for a warrant against the young man, and arrested him in his rooms in Clarges Street exactly a week after the committal of the crime.
"As a matter of fact, you know, experience has invariably taught me that when a murderer seems particularly foolish and clumsy, and proofs against him seem particularly damning, that is the time when the police should be most guarded against pitfalls.
"Now in this case, if John Ashley had indeed committed the murder in Regent's Park in the manner suggested by the police, he would have been a criminal in more senses than one, for idiocy of that kind is to my mind worse than many crimes.
"The prosecution brought its witnesses up in triumphal array one after another.

There were the members of the Harewood Club--who had seen the prisoner's excited condition after his heavy gambling losses to Mr.
Aaron Cohen; there was Mr.Hatherell, who, in spite of his friendship for Ashley, was bound to admit that he had parted from him at the corner of Bond Street at twenty minutes to two, and had not seen him again till his return home at five a.m.
"Then came the evidence of Arthur Chipps, John Ashley's valet.

It proved of a very sensational character.
"He deposed that on the night in question his master came home at about ten minutes to two.

Chipps had then not yet gone to bed.