I went up and knocked and kept on knocking as loud as I could, but, though I fetched everybody out of all the other chambers in the house, I couldn't get any answer from Mr.Blackmore.So I went downstairs again and then Mr.Walker, the porter, sent me for a policeman.
"'I went out and met a policeman just by Dane's Inn and told him about the affair, and he came back with me.

He and the porter consulted together, and then they told me to go up the ladder and get in at the window and open the door of the chambers from the inside.

So I went up; and as soon as I got in at the window I saw that the gentleman was dead.
I went through the other room and opened the outer door and let in the porter and the policeman.' "That," said Mr.Marchmont, laying down the paper containing the depositions, "is the way in which poor Jeffrey Blackmore's death came to be discovered.
"The constable reported to his inspector and the inspector sent for the divisional surgeon, whom he accompanied to New Inn.

I need not go into the evidence given by the police officers, as the surgeon saw all that they saw and his statement covers everything that is known about Jeffrey's death.

This is what he says, after describing how he was sent for and arrived at the Inn: "'In the bedroom I found the body of a man between fifty and sixty years of age, which has since been identified in my presence as that of Mr.
Jeffrey Blackmore.