The theory that the crime could not have been an outside job was strengthened by the fact that approximately 20 bodyguards who were in the precincts of the mayorial domain made it virtually impossible for anyone to enter the establishment unchallenged and unobserved, The servant who was engaged by the mayor ten years ago during one of his journeys to Dairen and who for years has been regarded as a faithful domestic above reproach and suspicion, left the house early in the morning and has not been heard of since. He was intercepted by a bodyguard while leaving the house, who inquired if he was leaving on any special mission and the reply came in the negative. He jumped on a bicycle and left the grounds of the house and has not been heard of since.
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