Some time afterwards, however, a man called at Scotland Yard with a jeweller's small cardboard box, which, he said, a man who had recently been lodging at his house had given to his little girl. On this box was stamped the jeweller's name, which, ominously enough, was "Death," and this man was the very jeweller to whom Mr. Briggs' watch had been taken. Thanks to this clue Müller was tracked first to Liverpool and then to New York, where he was arrested and extradited. At the trial the changed hat found upon the victim helped to prove his identity with the murderer, and he was convicted and hanged at Newgate. No more extraordinary instance of a single circumstance leading to the detection of a criminal can be offered than in what was known as the "Yarmouth Murder." On September 23rd, 1900, a woman was found lying dead upon the beach at Yarmouth, and from the appearance of the body she had evidently been strangled. On her fingers were some rings, but with the exception of the laundry mark upon her clothes, there was no clue by which she could possibly be identified. She had been staying for some days in lodgings in the town, and was known to her landlady as Mrs. Hood. While she was there letters bearing a Woolwich postmark had come addressed to her by that name. Only a day or two before her death she had had her photograph taken upon the beach. All investigation to discover who the woman really was or to trace her murderer proved unavailing, and at the coroner's inquest a verdict was brought in of wilful murder against some person unknown. Subsequently it was discovered that the laundry mark upon the dead woman's clothes, 599, was that put by a laundry upon the clothes sent to them from a particular house in Bexley Heath. Further inquiry showed that a woman named Bennett had formerly lived there, and she was identified as the original of the photograph that had been taken at Yarmouth. This led, early in November, to the arrest of the dead woman's husband, Bennett, who was a workman in Woolwich Arsenal, and he was committed for trial on the charge of murder. He denied all knowledge of the crime, and asserted that he had never been to Yarmouth. This was disproved, however, by collateral evidence, and many facts were brought forward connecting the prisoner with the murder. The motive alleged for the crime was that Bennett might be free to marry another woman. The date of the wedding had been fixed, and it was shown that his behaviour after the night of the murder pointed to his having a knowledge of his wife's death. So convincing was the whole of the circumstantial evidence, that after a short deliberation the jury brought in a verdict of "Guilty," and Bennett was executed. CHAPTER III PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION McKeever's Experiment on Fallibility of Eye-witnesses--Gorse Hall Murder--Cases of Mistaken Identity--Gun-flash Recognition--Self-deception--Tichborne Case.