Week 4

Hello passengers and personnel,

By the end of this lesson, you should have put at least 3 posts under your person's name:

1. The Voki i.e the presentation of your person

2. Your witness report (recorded)

3. The first part of your story. Write as if you are the person traveling on the train. Describe your person, the environment, what is happening, who you think is the murderer, why it is done etc. It should be a story, not a description. Let us know what you see, hear, say, think... and as always, motivate your answers.

Good luck / Miss Swanson

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.