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Detective Larose continued his reconstruction of the crime. He turned to Sam Gover. "Try to visualise now what exactly did take place after you and Eli Barton were struck down," he said.
"We take it for granted, as we have no reason to believe otherwise, that the hold-up was carried out by only two men. Well, you had wounded one and he was probably too sick forthwith to be interested in what was going on. But the other man would be very much interested. He had to be, for he had just committed, as he thought, two murders, and hanging is not for anyone a pleasant thing. So he proceeded to dispose of the bodies, and the assumption is that he dealt with Mr. Eli Barton's first.