More water glideth by the mill, than wots the miller of. Shakespeare.
[55. Tragedy at the Convention]
Fordney suspected Pollert because of his own statements that he did not know Hurlenson had returned to the hotel. Yet, when he said he heard a shot, he ran directly to Hurlenson’s room.
As his own room was down the corridor, he could not have known from what room the shot came, and he had no reason to assume it came from Hurlenson’s room.
Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest. Abraham Lincoln.
[56. A Murderer’s Mistake]
These murderers, like many others, betrayed themselves by a simple oversight. One look at the ladder and Fordney knew no man could have climbed up or down it. The thirty-foot ladder was placed two feet from the house. Any person ascending or descending the ladder in such a position would have fallen backwards before reaching the top or bottom.
To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause,
And I mount to the cause.