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But after a quarter to two he had vanished . Up to that hour witnesses were multitudinous . Dozens of people had seen him , fled from him or pursued him , and then things suddenly came to an end . At a quarter to two he had been seen running down the Euston Road towards Baker Street , flourishing a can of burning colza oil and jerking splashes of flame therefrom at the windows of the houses he passed . But none of the policemen on Euston Road beyond the Waxwork Exhibition , nor any of those in the side streets down which he must have passed had he left the Euston Road , had seen anything of him . Abruptly he disappeared . Nothing of his subsequent doings came to light in spite of the keenest inquiry .