...Do i remember the Johns case ?...

nervously asked sir cradle de pleach.

Certainly I do . remember it very well most unbalanced yet attractive women with no self control

He glanced sideways at Poirot .

What makes you ask me ABT it

I am interested

Not really tactful of you my dear mam said depleach showing his teeth in his sudden famous wolf smile ,which had been reputed to have such a terrifying effect upon the witness but not one of my success you knew I don't get her off

I know that sir

cradle shrugged his shoulders and said of course if i hadn't quite as much experience than as I have now i think I would have did all humanly be done

He lean back streching out his long leg hus face took on a judicial appraising look .

You know if she'd shoot him or even knifed him I'd have gone all out of for manslaughter

^^^But poision no you can't play tricks with that it's tricky _ very tricky.^^^

^^^Yes I know it tricky but the girl case was pretty striking.^^^

What was the evidence against her?

First of all there was motive she and Frank had led a kind of cat and dog life for years .

He was always getting mixed up with some women or other couldn't help it he was that kind of man she stood it pretty well on the whole

His stuff gone up at enormous price and that many was really a first class painter you know .

well ,there had been trouble ABT

***Women from time to time Mrs Clark wasn't the kind of women who suffer in silence

Eilsa Clark that was her name she was only twenty quite young girl but this was final affair was rather different

she was the only daughter of some yorkshine manufacturers

She'd got money and determination,as she knew what she wanted.

The thing which she wanted was anayas crake .she got him to paint her _he didn't paint regularly society potraits but he painted figures in satin with pearls

.

Idk that most of the wonen would have cared to be painted the Greer girl and he ended by failing for her good and proper

He was getting on for forty you know and ges been married a good many years he was just ripe for making a fool of himself over sone chit of a girls eilsa was the girl for whom he was crazy and his idea to get divorce from his wife and to marry eilsa

Mrs Clark wasn't standing for that she threatened him she was overheard by two people to say that I'f he didn't give up the girl she'd kill him .and she meant it all right !

The day before it happened they'd been having tea with a neighbour. He was by the way tof dabbling in herbs and home brewed medicine , among his patent brew was one of Coniine_spotted hemlock,there was some talk ABT it and it's deadly properties

The next day he notice that half the content of the bottle has gone .

Got the wind up about it

They found an almost empty bottle of its in Mrs Clark room , hidden away at the bottom of the drawer

hela point moved uncomfortably he said

Somebody eles might have put it there

Oh ! She admitted to the police she'd taken it .

very unwise ,of course but she didn't have a solicitor to advice her at that stage when they asked her ABT it ,she admitted quite frankly that she had taken it

For what reason?

She made out that she'd taken it with the idea of doing herself in

She couldn't explain how the bottle came to be empty, nor how it was that there were only her fingerprint on it .

That part of it was pretty damaging she contend you see that anyas crake had committed suicide but he'd taken the coiine from the bottle she'd hidden in her room his fingerprint would have been on the bottle as well as her

It was given him in beer was it not,,?

Yes she got out the bottle from the refrigerator and took it down herself to where he was painting in the garden.

she poured it out and give it to him and watch him drink it

Everyone went up and give up to lunch and left him he often didn't come in to meal .

Afterwards she and the governess found him there dead

Her story was that the beer she give him was all alright

Out of Theory was thar he suddenly felt so worried and remorseful that he slipped the poision in himself

All poppycock _ he wasn't that kind of man ! And the finger print on the bottle evidence was the most damming of all*** .