e wrong information. I went to this place because I intended
committing a burglary at Muswell Hill with a man who was released from
gaol two or three days before me, who knew the crib and asked me, when we
were at work one day, if I would go in with him on the job. I thought
there might be a chance of getting away with the stuff, if I could get
somebody to swear that I hadn't left the house that night.

"I told the landlord I had a job on the 14th and gave him L1. I saw Mr.
Lyne on the 14th at his house and put the idea up to him. I showed him
the vitriol which I had bought in the Waterloo Road and he said he would
not hear of my doing it. I thought he only said that because he did not
want to be mixed up in the case. He asked me to leave the girl to him and
he would settle with her.

"I left his house about nine o'clock at night, telling him I was going
back to my lodgings. But really I went to the block of flats in the
Edgware Road where this girl Rider lived. I knew the flat because I had
been there the night before at Mr. Lyne's suggestion to plant some
jewellery which had been taken from the store. His idea was that he
would pinch her for theft. I had not been able to get into the house,
owing to the presence there of a detective named Tarling, but I had had
a very good look round and I knew the way in, without coming through the
front door, where a porter was always on duty.

"I had no difficulty either in getting into the building or into the
flat. I thought it best to go in early because the girl might be out at
the theatre and I should have a chance of concealing myself before her
return. When I got into the flat I found it was in darkness. This suited
my purpose very well. I went from one room to another. At last I came to
the bedroom. I made an inspection of the room, looking about for a likely
place where I could hide.

"At the foot of the bed was an alcove covered by a curtain where several
dresses and a dressing-gown were hanging, and I found that I could easily
get in there behind the clothes and nobody would be the wiser. There were
two clothes-hooks projecting outside the curtain just inside the alcove.
I mention these because of something which happened later.

"Whilst I was prying around I heard a key turn in the lock and switched
off the lights. I had just time to get into the alcove when the door
opened and a man named Milburgh appeared. He turned on the lights as he
came into the room and shut