The case for the defence

Hello everybody! The teacher sent me by email a summary of the first story, so I´m publishing for everybody to read it.
Regards! Laura

A CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

THE CASE WAS CALLED THE PECKHAM MURDER (PECKHAM IS A LONDON DISTRICT). A WOMAN HAD BEEN BATTERED TO DEATH. HER BODY WAS FOUND IN NORTHWOOD STREET.

NO ONE BELIEVE THAT THE SUPECTED MURDERED WAS GOING TO BE DECLARED NOT GUILTY. THEREFORE, HE WAS GOING TO BE HUNG.

HE WAS A STOUT MAN WITH BULGING BLOODSHOOT EYES. HE WAS VERY UGLY. THIS GUY WAS DIFFICULT TO FORGET.

THE CROWN PROPOSED TO CALL 4 WITNESSES WHO HADN´T FORGOTTEN HIM, WHO HAD SEEN HIM HURRYING AWAY FROM THE LITTLE VILLA IN NORTHWOOD STREET.

MRS. SALMON, WHO LIVED IN 15 NORTHWOOD STREET, HADN´T BEEN ABLE TO SLEEP.  SHE HEARD A DOOR CLKICK SHUT AND THOUGHT IT WAS HER OWN GATE. SHE WENT TO THE WINDOW AND SAW ADAMS ON MRS PARKER´S STEPS. HE HAD JUST COME OUT, AND HE WAS WEARING GLOVES. HE HAD A HAMMER IN HIS HAND, AND HE DROPPED INTO THE LAUREL BUSHES BY THE FRONT GATE. HE REALISED THAT THE WOMAN HAD SEEN HIM THROUGH THE LIGHT OF THE STREET LAMP.

HENRY MACDOUGALL HAD BEEN DRIVING HOME FROM BENFLEET AND NEARLY RAN ADAMS DOWN AT THE CORNER OF NORWOOD STREET. HENRY WAS THE SECOND WITNESS.

OLD MR. WHEELER WAS ALSO A WITNESS.HE LIVED NEXT DOOR TO MRS. PARKER, AT NUMBER 12, AND WAS AWOKEN BY A NOISE – LIKE A CHAIR FALLING – AND GOT UP AND LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW. HE SAW ADAMS´S BULGING EYES.

IN LAUREL AVENUE HE WAS SEEN BY A FOURTH WITNESS.

THE COUNSEL SAID THAT THE DEFENCE PROPOSED TO PLEAD MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

HIS WIFE SAID THAT SHE WAS WITH HER HUSBAND IN THE MORNING OF FEBRUARY 14^TH.

AFTER THE FORMAL EVIDENCE, MRS. SALMON WAS CALLED. SHE APPOINTED ADAMS IN COURT. SHE SAID SHE WAS CERTAIN THE MURDERER HAD BEEN HIM.  MRS. SALMAN WAS 56, AND SHE HAD NEVER HAD TO WEAR GLASSES. SHE SAID THAT IT WAS 2 AM, THERE WAS MOONLIGHT AND WHEN THE MAN LOOKED UP, HE HAD THE LAMPLIGHT ON HIS FACE.

HOWEVER, THE COUNSELOR ASKED MRS. SALMAN TO EXAMEN THE PEOPLE IN COURT AGAIN. THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN WHO LOOKED LIKE MR. ADAMS. THAT MAN WAS HIS TWIN BROTHER.

NO WITNESS COULD SAY WHO THE MURDERER WAS. THEY WERE ALIKE. HIS BROTHER SAID THAT HE WAS WITH HIS WIFE AT THAT TIME.

BOTH WERE ACQUITTED FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE. WHEN THEY WERE LEAVING THE COURT, ONE OF THE TWINS SAID: I¨VE BEEN ACQUITTED, HAVEN´T I? SOMEBODY PUSHED ONE OF THE TWINS IN FRONT OF A PASSING BUS. HE DIED. HIS SKULL WAS MASHED JUST AS MRS. PARKER´S . HIS BROTHER CRIED BESIDE THE BODY, AND HE LOOKED STRAIGHT OVER AT MRS. SALMON.

NO ONE KNEW OF THE ONE WHO DIED WAS INNOCENT OR GUILTY.