"So that you cannot say whether the shot was fired by the deceased or his assailant?"
"I cannot say."
"Was that the only bullet you found?"
"The only one. My examination of these two rooms concluded, I turned my attention to other parts of the house. On the stairs leading from the street door to the bedroom I picked up two pieces of brown paper, with small pieces of wax adhering to them."
"Did you examine the back of the premises?"
"Yes. Over the basement rooms, which had not been used for a considerable time, was a window which had been broken from without, and broken by an unskilled hand."
"How do you arrive at the conclusion that the window was broken from without?"
"By the splinters of glass on the floor of the room, and by the broken pieces remaining in the panes, the jagged edges of which are a verification of my statement."
"We should like to hear your reason for saying that the hand that broke the window was unskilled?"
"A regular burglar would have been provided with tools which would have enabled him to cut the glass without running the risk of personal injury."