The pair moved about in Brighton a good deal. Violet seemed afraid lof some one, but would give no details. Only their movements were always sudden and swift. Once, Mancini said, young man came up in the street slashed at his and Violet's faces with a razor, Altogether he and can he bring of his in-Inocence? "A man who has had convvietions never gets a fair deal from the police," he said in the witness-ox. And sticking to this firmly under cross-examination, he added, "No one Ju this world knows the position 1 was in unless they themselves have been under suspicion."
Finally, he thrust the body into a cupboard, nailed up the door, washed, Jaway the blood, resolving desperately to say nothing and trust to luck. His [subsequent evasions and untruths followed inevitably.
Mancini found a letter from Violet's sister saying that she was coming down, He telegraphed "Golnig away, have got good job, will write", He told mutual friends that his "wife" had got a job in Paris, He gave away some of her clothes, saying that she not hed room for them in her 'Then' he bought a second-hand trunk, thrust the dead woman into it, jand with the ald of a friend trundled it'and his belongings to a new address in Kemp Street, There he lived with hhis terrible secret until July, when {the situation became, for tensons one Moed not dwelt on, unbearable and he fed to London... He was very soon arrested at Lewisham, 'Between then and the trial, most damaging stories were current' about Maneini—one thet he hed been mixed, in m stabbing affray, which the police said was utterly untrue, There was also the statement by two men that. in some cafe, after Violet's death, Mancini had spoken of "pashing his wife about property." and that he added, "Why hurt your hands? Take a hammer, same as T aid
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