Edmund Lovelace
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Gilly, only around 11.
You said that the time of death could have been at any of those hours.
So how did you pin it down to 11?
The watch gave me the specific answer.
When I picked it up, I unthinkingly wound it.
Made one turn and was then fully wound.
Now, when does a methodical, precise man like Gerald Lovelace wind his watch?
Just as he's going to bed.
Exactly, old fellow.
so that it was obvious that he was killed precisely one watch stem turn before I wound his watch.
So you let the watch run down.
That's what I did.
It took 28 hours, from one o'clock the night before last until five this morning.
Now, how many turns did it take to rewind it?
Fourteen, wasn't it?
Therefore, one turn of the watch stem equaled two hours, proving that Gerald Lovelace had been murdered two hours before one o'clock at 11 p.m.
Oh, he is, he is.
Except when his beloved dog's life was at stake, probably out of some mistaken notion of kindness...