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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: passage into the sitting-room. He got some water, and extin-
guished the fire in the bedroom. On the bed lay the body of
Dewar. To all appearances he had been killed in his sleep. By
his side was the body of the baby, suffocated by the smoke. Near
the bed was an axe belonging to Dewar, stained with blood. It
was with this weapon, apparently, that Mr. and Mrs. Dewar had
been attacked. Under the bed was a candlestick belonging also to
the Dewars, which had been used by the murderer in setting fire
to the bed. The front window of the sitting-room was open, there
were marks of boot nails on the sill, and on the grass in front
of the window a knife was found. An attempt had been made to
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