Witness reports

Times

• 21.15; Train leaves Belgrad
• about 21. 40; The servant, Mr Masterman, attends to Mr Ratchett and leaves a sleeping draught beside him.
• about 22.00; Mac Queen takes some notes in Mr Ratchett's compartment.
• about 22.00: The personnel leaves the dining-car and the conductor locks the door, both to the dining-car and the one that leads on to the platform.
• about 22.40; Greta Ohlsson sees Ratchett reading a book.
• 00.12; Train leaves Vincovi (late)
• 00.30; Train runs into snowdrift and is at a standstill. (No one has been able to leave the train.)
• 0.37; Ratchett's bell rings. The conductor answers it. Ratchett says; "C'est rein. Je me suit trompé".
• about 1.15; Hildegard Schmidt sees a conductor come out of a compartment and go towards the dining-car. He doesn't answer the bell from Mrs Hubbard.
• about 1.17; Mrs Hubbard thinks there is a man in her compartment. She rings for the conductor, who locks the adjoining door. Her daughter stays till half past three.
• about 5.00 Mary Debenham hears moaning when she is on her way to the toilet. She tells the conductor, who finds Ratchett and fetches Dr Constantine.
• 07.00: Miss Swanson interrogates Ratchett shortly before he dies of too much blood loss.
• Dr Constantine believes Mr Ratchett was stabbed between midnight and two o'clock.

Clues

• Miss Swansson finds the following things in Ratchett's compartment: a  fine handkerchief with the letter "H" embroidered on it;  pipe cleaner and Mr Ratchett doesn't smoke the pipe.
• The button from a conductor's uniform is found in Mrs Hubbard's compartment.
• The conductor's uniform is found hidden in the toilet in the Calais coach.
• The murder weapon, the knife,  is found in a beauty bag in Mrs Hubbard's compartment.