The Police Report

Early this evening a man, later identified as a Mr. Faulkner, collapsed in the police station. Faulkner was reported to be seen running down the street towards the police station in a frenzy, stumbling as if intoxicated or wounded. By the time he entered the station there was blood running from his lips and it is said that he was mumbling the words "soldier", "artist", and "money". He held a broken portrait in one hand and in the other clasped a bag containing a very large sum of money. It has been brought to the police's attention that Mr. Faulkner is the same man who earlier this year had sent an ex-solider and his band of thieves to jail for murder and that the soldier at present is at large. It is still not evident how the portrait is connected to the death of Mr. Faulkner, but police have deemed his death to have been an act of murder, possibly by poison.