was how did the girl actually get into the saloon, the second was how did Gladys Wain fail to see anything of the girl when she was there in the afternoon. The third was the exact manner of the girl’s death. The fourth was how was Gladys Wain prevented from seeing the body when she came in at 9 o’clock. The fifth was how did Ross get back from Footscray late at night to dispose of the body. How these matters of conjecture were filled in in the two alleged confessions can be seen clearly by the following parallels. (The rooms indicated will be described in the terms used through the trial, not in the terms used in the “confessions.”) THE MATTHEWS THE HARDING CONFESSION. CONFESSION. (1) The child came up When the child got opposite and asked him for a his place he spoke drink. He gave her a to her, and she took no glass of lemonade and notice of him at first. He took her into the cubicle. said: “You have nothing to be afraid of; I own this place, and if you are tired you can come in and sit down.” She went in and he took her into the cubicle and induced her to take three glasses of sweet wine. (2) She stayed there About this time a until about four. Stanley woman whom he knew could see her too. A girl came to the door of the named Gladys Wain came cafe, and he spoke to her to see him, and he told for about three-quarters the child to go through to of an hour, and when he the beaded room, and he went back to the cubicle “kept her in there” the girl was asleep. A [how?] until Gladys left, little later “his own girl” and then brought her back came to the door of the into the cubicle. cafe, and he spoke to her until nearly 6 o’clock. Stanley couldn’t see her when he was serving, because the screen was down, and when the screen was down no one dared go into the cubicle.