Crime scene: 162 mystery solving puzzles to find out who the murderer is

Chapter 69 The Diamond in the Urn

At 9:30 in the morning, the luxurious large yacht "Iceberg" was going upstream on the river. Suddenly, Mrs. Shire in mourning rushed to find the captain and said, "Oops, one of the urns I brought is missing!"

The captain didn't take it seriously when he heard Mrs. Shire's words. He smiled and said to her: "Madam, don't worry! Think about it, no one will steal the urn!"

"No no!" Mrs. Shire explained with sweat on her forehead, "It not only contains my father's ashes, but also three diamonds worth 3 yuan."

Before World War II, Mrs. Shire's father, Professor Ke Lun, was hired by the University of Toronto, Canada, to teach.When war broke out, he stayed in Canada out of dissatisfaction with Hitler's fascist regime.Time flies in a flash for decades.At first he was away alone, and then his eldest daughter, Mrs. Shire, went to Canada to take care of his life.In the spring of this year, Professor Kelun suddenly became seriously ill and was bedridden. When he was dying, he asked his daughter to bring his ashes back to Germany, and exchange his savings for many years into diamonds for his three daughters in Germany.

Mrs. Shire said to the captain in great frustration: "It is because of this that I always keep the urn with me. I think that no one will steal the urn. I didn't expect that I have not returned to my hometown and my three younger sisters have not seen each other. to the ashes of my father, but today..."

After hearing the story, the captain immediately investigated all the people on the yacht who had entered Mrs. Shire’s cabin, and recorded the following situation——Mrs. At 9 minutes, because the waiter Anna came to tidy up the cabin, the two chatted on the deck.

Mrs. Shire herself: At 9:10, I went back to the cabin to get the camera, and found that the waiter Anna was turning over the bedside table.Madame Shire reprimanded her.The two quarreled for 10 minutes until 9:20; at 9:25, his girlfriend Frost entered the cabin again and invited Mrs. Shire to go to the deck to enjoy the scenery on both sides of the strait. Mrs. Shire did not agree because she was in a bad mood.

After the waiter left at 9:30, Mrs. Shire found that the urn had disappeared...

If the facts stated by Mrs. Shire are to be believed, the thief must be one of Anna and France, but it is impossible to say who.While in trouble, a crew member reported to the captain:
"I vaguely saw a little purple wooden box in the waves at the stern."

The captain rushed to the stern and saw that it was exactly as the crew said.He made a decisive decision and ordered to return to search.It was 10:30 at this time.At 11:45, I finally caught up with the small wooden box that was drifting downstream on the river.Fished it up immediately.After being identified by Mrs. Shire, the wooden box was her father's urn, but the three diamonds in the urn were gone.

At this time, the captain took out his notebook again, carefully analyzed the situation just recorded, and finally concluded that the person who pried open the urn to steal the diamond, and then threw the urn into the river.

The result of solving the case is consistent with the captain's conclusion.Do you know who stole these diamonds?
[Answer] The diamond was stolen by Mrs. Shire's girlfriend, Flores.

To know who committed the crime, one must deduce who has the time and conditions to commit the crime.

Because the drifting distance of the small wooden box plus the distance traveled by the boat upstream to catch up with the small wooden box is equal to the distance traveled by the boat downstream during the period from 10:30 to 11:45, the time to drop the urn is 9:15.At this time, Anna was arguing with Mrs. Shire. She could not have time to throw the wooden box into the river, so the perpetrator was Frost.

(End of this chapter)