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_ Tom Burton , Well-Known Man About Town , the Victim . _ _ Police Are Puzzled ! _ In the body of the type the hurried details of the crime were given -- or as many of them as the journal had been able to gather before going to press . Stanwick was a new suburb on a branch line ; and some time after midnight a policeman , Colby by name , had been patrolling his beat , which was along Duncan Street . A girl in the dress of a nurse , and much frightened , rushed up to him , and in great agitation announced that there was a man lying dead on the floor at 620 . Colby , startled and excited , accompanied the girl to the house indicated , and there found the body of Thomas Burton , a `` well-known clubman , '' stretched out upon the floor of the sitting-room -- dead -- and with a frightful wound in the head . `` The house is occupied by Frank Burton , the cartoonist for the _ Morning Standard _ , and his sister Mary , who has been an invalid for some years .