“Yesterday, Monday morning, when summoned to her home in Georgetown.”
“How did the summons reach you?”
“By telephone.” Mitchell hesitated, and the coroner waited for him to continue before putting another question. “The message was to go at once to ‘Rose Hill,’ that a crime had been committed there.”
“Did the person talking on the telephone give his name?”
“No, Sir.”
“Did you ask his name?”
“I did, but she rang off instead of answering.”
“She?” inquiringly.
“I took the voice to be that of a woman,” explained Mitchell cautiously.