4:05
The theory they held was that some person had crept up unheard behind the victim -- as this could easily have been done with snow so thick upon the ground -- stunned him with a blow upon the back of the head , and then despatched him outright by blows upon the forehead . No footsteps were anywhere visible , the falling snow having hidden them . Churchill 's movements during that afternoon had in part been traced . Directly after taking to Dulcie the buckle he had found and obtaining her permission to absent himself for the afternoon , he had walked to Holt Stacey , and there caught the 4:05 train to Newbury . He had exchanged the time of day with the ticket-collector at Newbury , who had taken the half of his ticket . The return half had afterwards been found in the dead man 's pocket . Where he had been , or what he had done , between 4:20 -- from the time he left Newbury station , on foot -- and 6:10 , when he had looked in at the `` Dog and Clown '' and had a drink and a chat with the landlord , was unknown .