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At Chadwell Heath it was found that a first-class return ticket to / Stratford had been taken just before the 10.54 train left on the last / night Abel Pullin was seen alive, and that the return half had been / given up by a passenger who arrived by the first train soon after six / in the morning The porter who took the ticket remembered the / circumstance, because first-class tickets were rare at that time in / the morning, but he did not recognise the passenger, who was muffled / up.
"But I think there's enough for an arrest without a warrant, at any / rate," Truscott said. "We shall be able to walk round and pick up a / little more evidence after that. I am off to Scarby Lodge. Can't / afford to waste any more time. He was foolish to take a first-class / ticket, any way. That singles a man out, and he might easily have / been recognised. He was smart enough not to use his season ticket, / though. That would have done him clean."