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t Fe t oe A Child Mast ple the Fire, —_ of Murder Was Not Enough - middie-aged woman en- Says the Legend, but a Touch | cd Reginald Percival. wee .N ‘July 28, of the earn urday night, a tered the police station in - Lambeth, that district of eN London on the Surrey ; side of the Thames, fac- ”4 ing Parliament. . ~~ a = “She gave her name as Mrs. Norris, and told the sergeant in charge that she was worried about the confinued absence of her landlady, Mrs. Wabel Edmunds, _who kept a three-story eal Loaaiin - J yip aee by Something drew him there very day to wateh his friend © plead for hie Ilva rave SHORT rooming-house in You Road. ‘She b left suddenly and her rooms were ne --padlocked. Mrs. Norris occupied the room ne to Mrs. Edmunds’, and since they we | separated only by a folding door, 4) could not help hearing what went c next door if voices were raised. On Saturday afternoon a week pas she heard Mrs, Edmunds having fierce argument with her nephew, Fry Jesse, who had been living in the hous since January. The quarrel was cor: cerning the sum of forty pounds whic! Jesse owed his aunt. They hurled bit ter names at each other and were stii heartily at it when Mrs. Norris had t go out to have tea with a friend. She returned to the house at elever ~The first thing she noticed was tha 78