On the day before he was killed she returned to the husband whom she had discarded for the merchant.

What inference do you think the public is going to draw?
Why, that she was Whitmore's mistress and that she and her worthless husband were in a conspiracy to obtain the money.
"And now what's going to happen ?" the detective continued.

"Why, public sympathy will be extended to her in full measure.

Permit suspicion to fall on a woman without arresting her, and the public is ready to believe every scandal concerning her which the putrid imagination of every bar-room hanger-on can invent.

Once you arrest her, the public in its eagerness to damn the police will repudiate every bit of unfavorable evidence we may offer against her.