I was told that, at the time of the Great Coram Street murder, it was promptly concluded by our street that Biggs's boy (for that period) was at the bottom of it, and had he not been able, in reply to the severe cross-examination to which he was subjected by No. 19, when he called there for orders the morning after the crime (assisted by No. 21, who happened to be on the step at the time), to prove a complete ALIBI, it would have gone hard with him.
Si diceva che, al tempo dell’assassinio di Great Coran Street, si fosse rapidamente concluso che il garzone di Bigg (di quel periodo) non fosse stato del tutto estraneo alla faccenda, e che se egli non fosse stato capace, in risposta all’interrogatorio al quale lo aveva assoggettato il n. 19 (quando gli erano state date delle ordinazioni, la mattina, dopo il delitto), assistito dal n.