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The Mystery of the Electric Telegraph
A suspected murderer was about to get off the train in Paddington and disappear. The two operators of the telegraph are brothers, so you get Thomas Home who's the one at Paddington,. His brother Richard is the operator at Slough station. A murder has just been committed at Salt Hill and the suspected murder was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7.42pm. He is in the garb of the Quaker with a brown grapecoat on, which reaches nearly down to his feet. They had less than half an hour to send the message, to receive the message and to be ready at the platform waiting for