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You don’t see everyday
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The SML Express pulled out of the new Bedford station late one night,
and began its winding journey up the East coast towardWashington
and NewYork under heavy darkness. Owing to the late hour, there
were only a handful of passengers aboard the small train. At the stroke
of midnight, the lights illuminating the interiors of the two cars were
suddenly extinguished.When they came back on a few moments later,
the passengers were alarmed to see one of their number lying on the
ground motionless.
The conductor phoned the local police department at the next station,
and though it was very late, the dispatcher assured the worried
conductor that they were sending their very best detective, K.C.
Jones, who had an usual methodology when it came to solving crimes.
Knowing witnesses to be often be mistaken and contradictory, Jones
made a habit of asking his witnesses to state to him only one fact they
remembered clearly and with absolute certainty from the moment the
crime took place.
K.C. Jones wasted no time upon arriving and, after taking a quick
overview of the scene, asked each of the ten remaining passengers in
turn to state one absolute fact from the moment right before lights went
out in the two train cars. His interview notes are as follows:
Ms. Saunders: I was dining with Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Gill:There were the same number of men and women in my car.
Mr. Johnson: Mr. Keefer was not in the dining car.
Ms. Lyme: Mr. Quimby had just entered my car.
Mr. Fralin: Ms.Witcher and Ms. Pitt were talking to one another in
hushed tones.
Mr. Rucker: Mr. Gill was not in the passenger car.
Mr. Quimby:There were fewer women in my car than the other.
Ms. Pitt: Ms. Lyme was not in the same car as me.
Mr. Keefer: Ms. Pitt was in the passenger car.
Ms.Witcher: Mr. Fralin was avoiding Mr. Rucker and hiding behind a
newspaper in the opposite car.
The bewildered conductor watched as Jones completed his interviews,
scribbled a few more lines in his notes, and turned to announce he had
solved the case.
“But surely you can’t have figured out the identity of a murderer simply
from a list of seating arrangements?” the conductor protested. “You
haven’t even been told in which car the victim was seated!”
“To the contrary, my good man,” the detective answered placidly. “It is
the curse of a criminal that he must answer any question regarding the
crime he has committed with a lie.The innocent tell only truths, but the
lone murderer has been betrayed by his testimony.”
Whom did Detective K.C. Jones arrest?
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