Chapter 41 Grandma's First Appearance! (Part 2)
["What? She is lying! No, I'm walking too fast. Janet is an old woman who treats her master like a faithful watchdog, and, she doesn't like me, she's jealous and suspicious. I think Miss France may have told Janet about her plans, and Janet either misunderstood what she said, or be self-righteously convinced that I forced the old woman to do so. I dare say, now she's convinced that Miss France has indeed said these things to her."
"Don't you think she doesn't like you, so she deliberately lied about that question?"
Donald Wall seemed to be surprised and was hit hard...]
Donald must have refuted immediately, and then through the lawyer's mouth, he explained the details of Ms. France's death clearly. The lady was beaten to death with a shovel, and the shovel used as a weapon fell to the ground at will without any treatment, and there were also things missing in the room.
From the overall perspective, it seems to be a house-entry robbery and then a fierce murder, but from the evidence collection now, this possibility is not great. Janet first swears at 9:30 and hears French talking to a man in the room. If it is a house-entry robbery, how could Ms. French discuss with the robber unless the robber is an acquaintance.
The problem is that robbery must be for money, but the things lost in Ms. France's room are all fragmentary things, and it is worthless more like to cover up. Donald once visited Ms. France's house at night, and France mentioned above is the biggest suspect.
Of course Donald himself said that he went over that night and shouted twice, but now there was no one in the family, so he left.
Chen Banjin suddenly thought of something when he saw this: "I remember the promotional advertisement said that you should not read the low IQ. I think this writer did it on purpose. From a narrative perspective, he helped Donald, and maybe the murderer was Donald."
The clever and smart classmate Banjin thought about it with this kind of thinking, but when he thought about it this way, Chen Banjin felt that everything made sense. Donald had motivation and time to commit the crime.
After restoring it, the whole case was that Donald, who had financial problems, looked around to find ways to make money, and finally pointed his finger at the "rich old woman", approached her deliberately, and deceived her favor, allowing Ms. France to list herself as the heir to the will, and finally got the killer, with a complete logic line.
Another explanation is about the narrative perspective. Taking the anime "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in O9 as an example, the subjective perspective of the anime is aimed at the three brothers of Liu Bei, so Cao Cao, Sun Quan and other princes thought it was wrong to do anything, hindering the protagonist Liu Beizhan. In fact, Luo Guanzhong was somewhat biased towards the three brothers of Liu, Guan and Zhang in the original book, but the anime in O9 was more thorough.
In this article, the supplement to the case has so far been from the conversation between Donald and Mehen, so what readers see is also described by Donald himself. And Chen Banjin thinks that the author did it on purpose. By describing expressions, readers think that Donald is a person without scheming, but what if Donald's expressions are all pretending in the article?
Back to the point, Chen Banjin continued to read, further confirming his inference.
[“Third nine,” said Donald Wall, “third nine nine ten…” He jumped up. “Then I’m saved—and I’m saved—”
"What do you mean? Is it saved?" Mr. Mehen exclaimed in surprise.
"I'm back home at half past nine! My wife can prove it. It was five when I left Miss France, about nine twenty when I arrived at home, and my wife was waiting for me at home. Oh! Thank God - thank God! Thanks to Janet Mackenzie for the template of the top sleeve."
When he was excited, he did not notice the serious expression on the lawyer's face that had not changed. However, the lawyer's words caused him to fall back to the ground.
"So, in your opinion, who killed Miss France?"...]
That's right, Donald has a "personal testimony", so why do you need to put quotation marks? No matter what law it is, it is impossible for his wife to provide testimony. It is not only a couple, but also a relationship between parents and son. Because it is too close, it is very easy to interfere in confessions and perjury.
Mehen also asked specifically about the relationship between Donald and his wife, and Donald himself said it was very good.
As a veteran attorney, Mehen must know that the law and the jury would not believe such testimony, so he also wanted to know if Donald had other witnesses.
[“Is there anyone else who saw you come back at 9:20? For example, a servant or something?”
"We don't have servants."
“Have you ever met someone on the way home?”
"I haven't met someone I know. I took a car for a while and the driver may remember it."
Mr. Mehen shook his head suspiciously.
"So, no one can prove your wife's evidence?"
"No, but, it's not necessary, right?"
"I dare not say, I dare not say." Mr. Mehen replied hurriedly.
...]
No one could give another proof except Donald's wife, and Mehen asked next, whether Ms. French knew that he had been married and had a wife, Donald stammered and couldn't answer.
Then from the next conversation between the two, we can also see that Donald may have used marriage and feelings to Ms. France that made France change her will.
"This Donald has a little low IQ. If it were me, I would plan this kind of premeditated murder. I wouldn't say anything else, at least I have to handle the evidence, instead of hoping that the jury would believe his wife. Don't this guy know that after revising the will, he will be the biggest beneficiary." Chen Banjin felt that the criminal in the book was stupid, and that he would pretend to be a robbery. Can he take away some valuable things? Instead of taking some valuable things in pieces.
"That's right. If Donald could think of this, there wouldn't be no one to prove it. He is very stupid and naive, and he is also close to his personality." Chen Banjin muttered, he had already determined that Donald was the murderer.
Although the testimony of Donald's wife Roman was not credible, as a debate lawyer, it was necessary to understand the situation and see if we could find any clues that were valuable to the parties involved, so Mehen found Mrs. Roman the next day.
"The next thing is how to convict. Well, I don't feel like IQ is taking the test too much, or my IQ is too high, hehe." Chen Banjin was complacent and felt that the plot of the next conviction was meaningless.
Of course, conviction must be made. If the guilty person is finally acquitted through a lawyer's debate, it is not in line with the core socialist values, and newspapers and magazines dare not publish this.
Chapter completed!