Sherlock Holmes:
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. "
Source: http://www.bcpl.net/~lmoskowi/HolmesQuotes/q.detection.html
CP
Initially we were given to understand that the young girl was asked to make a confession just before attending midnight mass.
Sherlock Holmes "Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality." Source:http://www.bcpl.net/~lmoskowi/HolmesQuotes/q.crime.html
"When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it."
Source: http://www.pweb.uklinux.net/sh/quotes/crime.php
CP
Then we are told that the priest admitted that he was examining a pendant round her neck and his hand slipped onto her breast momentarily.
Sherlock Holmes
"Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?"
"But then again, what is master doing down in the old church crypt at night?"
Source: http://lelilo.editthispage.com/Holmes
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Recently Ivar Fjeld informs us:
"Remember our Church was full of parishioners, and there was a last minute rush. The girl came running into the Priest's office with a message. The Priest pointed out his hand, and quickly turned around. The girl ran into his finger with full speed, and her breast got badly hurt. The Priest has admitted this. The girl`s friends have said that she came out from the room crying, and went back home to her mother."
Source:http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2005-January/023133.html
CP
Huh?
1) I thought he was sticking to the pendant version?
2) 'badly hurt' from accidently running into a finger?
3) What was the message that had to be delivered post haste? Who sent the message?
4) If the priest was gesticulating then he was speaking to someone who was witness to the incident. Who was this person?
Sherlock Holmes:
"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different."
Source: http://www.bcpl.net/~lmoskowi/HolmesQuotes/q.detection.html
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Sherlock Holmes:
"My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law."
" When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Source: http://www.pweb.uklinux.net/sh/quotes/crime.php
Until a new version of the incident turns up...
Regards
Cecil
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