Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes
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What does Arbeter Fraint say about relative and arrival times?
Dimshits, Eygel and Gilyarovsky ran to look for a policeman; ten minutes later they had found a pair of peace-keepers.
Assuming this to be true, this would take us from 12:50 to 1am, at the latest. Continuing...
One of the policemen ran for a doctor, and Morris Eygel ran to the police station on Leman Street to report the murder. In the meantime, the commotion about the murder drew people, and the street that had been asleep began to become lively.
So Ayliffe runs for a doctor, as we know. He should really be arriving at about 1:02, at the latest. From that point, Johnston should be getting to the yard no more than 5 minutes later. So what does AF say next...?
The doctor arrived ten minutes later along with a lot of policemen.
Ten minutes later? That would take us from 1:00 to 1:10. Possibly a little later, as this assumes the time that elapses from the finding of the police to Ayliffe's departure, to be zero seconds. According to Johnston, Dr. Blackwell arrived 3 or 4 minutes after he did, and on checking his watch on arrival, Blackwell read 1:16. So it all works out to within a few minutes or even less.
Tentative conclusion: Ayliffe's round trip to the surgery, took significantly longer than is normally supposed.
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