That's the window, Mr. Holmes, which gave us one of the few bits
of positive evidence that came out at the inquest.
"You remember that a stonemason, named Slater, walking from
Forest Row about one o'clock in the morning -- two days before
the murder -- stopped as he passed the grounds and looked at the
square of light still shining among the trees. He swears that
the shadow of a man's head turned sideways was clearly visible
on the blind, and that this shadow was certainly not that of
Peter Carey, whom he knew well. It was that of a bearded man,
but the beard was short and bristled forwards in a way very
different from that of the captain. So he says, but he had
been two hours in the public-house, and it is some distance from
the road to the window. Besides, this refers to the Monday,
and the crime was done upon the Wednesday.
"On the Tuesday Peter Carey was in one of his blackest moods,
flushed with drink and as savage as a dangerous wild beast.
He roamed about the house, and the women ran for it when they
heard him coming. Late in the evening he went down to his own hut.
About two o'clock the following morning his daughter, who slept
with her window open, heard a most fearful yell from that
direction, but it was no unusual thing for him to bawl and shout
when he was in drink, so no notice was taken.
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