Finally,
about half-past four in the morning, she crept out, opened the
door, slipped downstairs, and ran out into the street. There she
had found the policemen and requested them to search the house.
The two officers had gone to the house with the woman. She had
opened the door and they had had just time to step back into the
shadow when the prisoner entered. When arrested, Victor Ancona had
screamed with terror, and cried out, "It was no use! it was no use
to do it!"
The Chief of Police had come to the house and instituted a careful
search. In the room below, from which the cries had come, he found
a dress which was identified as belonging to Nina San Croix and
which she was wearing when last seen by the domestic, about six
o'clock that evening. This dress was covered with blood, and had a
slit about two inches long in the left side of the bosom, into
which the Mexican knife, found on the prisoner, fitted perfectly.
These articles were introduced in evidence, and it was shown that
the slit would be exactly over the heart of the wearer, and that
such a wound would certainly result in death.
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