"Yet you did not recognize him?"
"It was his coat. He didn't have that gray coat on usually,--not when I saw him before that evening."
"When and where did you see him before that evening?"
"I was coming up Oak Street past the Wellington, and I saw Mr. Fullerton come out with a lady. They walked so slow that I passed them. Mr. Fullerton wore a long loose black topcoat. I noticed because he had both his hands stuck in his pockets. So when I found the man in a gray coat it threw me off. Afterwards--" Donohue hesitated again over his astonishing conclusion--"afterwards we found that he had his black coat on wrong side out. The inside was gray."
The overcoat was brought out for the jury and examined. It was a long, loose garment, black on the outside, gray on the inner. Though not intended for reversible wearing, it was obvious that it could have been easily turned. The question that at once occurred to every listener was whether the garment had been turned by Fullerton himself, or whether it had been hastily and carelessly put on him by some one else after he had fallen unconscious. This was obviously in the examiner's mind when he asked next,
"Was the overcoat buttoned when you came upon him?"
"No, it was open."
"How was the body lying?"
"In a heap, as though his knees had crumpled up under him."
"Officer, did you see no one on the street from the time you left Oak Street and Grant Street until you found the body?"