ABSTRACT
In London meanwhile the Notting Hill police were again active. While Evans was having his latest conversation with Detective-Constable Evans, a group of police officers made a search of 10 Rillington Place. It was not a very thorough search, for at this time the police were not wholly certain what they were looking for: all they had to go on were Evans's two contradictory statements in Wales, and these gave no proof of a murder: indeed it was perfectly possible that the Evanses had parted company after a row and that Evans was, as the Merthyr police suggested to Mr. Lynch, temporarily off his head. The police looked round the garden and saw, no doubt to Christie's intense relief, no evidence of recent digging. They failed to notice however (another example of people not finding what they are not looking for) something that was visible for all to see. This was Muriel Eady's right thigh-bone which had worked itself loose from the soil some time previously and which Christie was now using to prop up the garden fence. That Christie found hirnself able to use the bone of a woman he had murdered is a good example of his astonishing effrontery. The police did not look into the wash-house, but they did go upstairs to Evans's flat. Here they found two things. One was a newspaper cutting of the Stanley Setty torso murder, for which Donald Hume, now serving life-imprisonment for murder in Switzerland, was later convicted as an accessory after the fact. As Evans could neither read nor write, this cutting was almost certainly 'planted ' in his flat by Christie some time during the past few days. The other object was a stolen briefcase. There is no evidence that Evans had stolen this himself, but some evidence that he was looking after it for a friend.
