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Testimony of the hotel-keeper where Walenn had been staying , the identification of his body , and of a snake-shaped ring he had been wearing at dinner that evening . Testimony of a pawnbroker , that this same ring was pawned with him the first thing yesterday morning by the prisoner . Testimony of a policeman that he had noticed the man Evan several times in Glove Lane , and twice moved him on from sleeping under that arch . Testimony of another policeman that , when arrested at midnight , Evan had said : `` Yes ; I took the ring off his finger . I found him there dead ... . I know I ought n't to have done it ... . I 'm an educated man ; it was stupid to pawn the ring .