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CASE FILE No.908 · PRACTICE EYES ONLY
MURDCRYPT
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CASE FILE No.908 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE

THE UNSENT TELEGRAM

He quoted the dead man's wire. It reached the house an hour after the murder.

The back office of a small market-town bank, the gas turned low over the ledgers and the strong-room shut for the night. A telegram for the manager was sent late and would not reach the house until the small hours, long after the office had emptied and the lamps gone cold.

Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.

INCIDENT REPORT. Edwin Mercer was found at dawn behind the counter, struck once with the heavy brass stamp. A telegram addressed to him had been wired late and did not reach the house until an hour after the surgeon's hour of death; no one in the bank that night could yet have read it. Five of the bank's people were awake in the town. Each gave an account. One of them speaks of the wire's contents before any eye could have seen them.
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Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.

STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— S.R.— Stanley Rooke
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— F.B.— Florence Bly
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— A.C.— Ambrose Carrow
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— V.S.— Vera Stannard
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— L.G.— Leo Greaves

A revealed letter files the case as assisted.

A pulled lead files the case as assisted.

Who's lying?
Four stories hold. One won't. Name the liar.

One verdict. The case locks for the day.

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