11 AUGUST 1939, Page 15

We showed the old man the well-known picture of the

final tragedy, which depicts Gordon descending the stair- way. He gazed at it for a Ion time with the puzzled scrutiny of a man unaccustomed to deciphering pictures.

Suddenly his brow cleared. "Yes," he said, this is certainly correct. That (and here he pointed at an aperture in the wall below the staircase) that was the window of the downstairs lavatory."