Chapter 22 Section 22

After dinner, William and Yanni drove back to Long Island without talking. Saturday, October 29. William Woodward slept until noon in his bedroom at Oyster Bay.The driver, Lee Principe, reported to him: "There was a thief in the middle of the night, and four policemen came to the police station at 4 o'clock in the morning to check... Officer Ray Supple, please take time to go to the police station today and declare the stolen items. There are still some documents that need to be signed..." Li took the male owner to the garage first. The door of the Stabeck car that the Woodwards drove back from Manhattan last night was pried open, and William's black leather briefcase was thrown on the ground.The two went to the swimming pool again, another scene of the crime.Not long after, Yan Ni hurried over with a coat over her nightgown.The bum had apparently visited the little bar by the swimming pool and had stolen the pistol, leaving an empty case there.

It was at this moment that William Woodward showed nervousness.He said to Yanni and Li in French: "It would be terrible if this guy has no way out and becomes a vicious and desperate desperado." The couple immediately decided to go back to the house on East 73rd Avenue in Manhattan after tonight. In the afternoon, Jenny and William's eldest son, William III, called Robert Strauss, a kid next door in Manhattan, saying that his parents had agreed for him to attend the All Souls' Day party at Strauss' house tomorrow. "Daddy said, let's fly the new plane 'Heriot' back." All Souls' Day is the last day of October every year, a grand event for children.

Doudou's mother, Mrs. Martis Baker, called Odward's house and said that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were going downstairs at 8:30 p.m., and asked Jenny and William to arrive before then. At 7:40, Jenny William drove to Becker's house, and walked for 25 minutes after a 15-minute journey, because the couple had another quarrel on the road and quarreled.Yanni took out a powder box from her handbag to touch up her makeup, but William snatched it and threw it into the sea. It was the powder box given to Jenny by Prince Ali Khan. ………… Returning from Mrs. Baker's banquet, the Woodwards put aside their past feuds and face imminent danger together.Together, the two inspected the ups and downs of the building, checked all the doors and windows, and William went to the gun cabinet in the basement to take out a gun for his wife.

The last words William said to Yanni were: "Shoot first, then ask questions." Sunday, October 30. Sometime after midnight, at William Woodward's morgue home, his wife, Jenny, said she suspected her husband of being a "thief." The police soon discovered that the time of the incident was not 2:07, and the night watchman Steven Smith forgot to set back the luminous watch given to him by one hour.Steven himself said that he waited for a while after being awakened by the gunshot, and did not call the police until he heard the crying of the hostess. The call came in at 2:08 a.m., according to the police officer who answered Jenny Woodward's call.

From this calculation, the shooting should have occurred at 1:07 in the morning. So, what did Yanni do in the hour between her self-proclaimed "manslaughter" her husband and the time she called the police? At this point the suspect is no longer available for questioning.The Oyster Bay Police Station made a serious mistake that should not have been made. At 2:55, the coroner they invited, Dr. Francis Moore, took it upon himself to inject Mrs. Odward with a strong sedative, which made Rousseau Harvard Department Chang was very annoyed. "Who told you to give her the shot, doctor?"

"She was 'hysterical, emotionally out of control, suicidal,' you said." "I repeat, who asked you to give her the injection?" "According to her clinical symptoms, there is nothing wrong with my way of handling it. It can be said that it is flawless." "What happened here was a shooting homicide, you know? . . . " "That's why I was called here in the middle of the night." "And in a homicide, it's against normal operating procedure in any way to make a suspect unable to answer police questions, you know, doctor?"

"I really don't know." The doctor was no longer confident. "When will she wake up?"