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All eyes were turned upon M Godin He was very pale, yet his jaas fir akin to a defiant smile played about his handsome mouth To say that the audience was amazed is to convey no adequate idea of their real condition We felt prepared for anything I alht cast suspicion uponM Godin's discoe continued: "M Godin has testified that he soh, he says, toI shall show you that he is a professional ga after the murder was committed I made a most careful exarounds near the easternAs the result of my observations, I informed Miss Darrow that I had reason to believe that her father had beenhis footprints, and who also had a halting gait The weight of this person I was able to estimate at not far froht as about five feet and five inches I also stated it as my opinion that the person who did the deed had the habit of biting his finger nails, and a particular reason for sparing the nail of the little finger and peruesswork on my part, for in the soft soil beneath the easternI found a perfect impression of a closed hand Here is the cast of that hand Look well at it Notice the wart upon the upper joint of the thuer where it has evidently been broken M Godin says he never entered the yard of the Darrow estate, except on the night of the murder in company with Messrs Osborne and Allen, and that then he merely passed up and down the front walk on his way to and frolass was lass itself was cut by me froh which the murder was committed This plaster cast was taken from an i after the murder The hand is the hand of M Godin You will note that one of this gentleman's feet is deformed and that he habitually halts in his walk"