Articles in the newspapers began to inquire how many more murderers would succeed in baffling the police.
The authorities at the Treasury offered a reward of a hundred pounds for the necessary information.

And the weeks passed and nobody claimed the reward.
Our Inspector was not a man to be easily beaten.

More inquiries and examinations followed.

It is needless to say anything about them.

We were defeated--and there, so far as the police and the public were concerned, was an end of it.
The assassination of the poor young husband soon passed out of notice, like other undiscovered murders.