    The dead was forty-three or forty-four, well dressed, a hat lying beside him on the floor. He looked like trying to fight before death. There were marks of blood in the room, but there was no wound upon the person. Holmes examined the body. Then he said, "Take out the body to bury him." A ring rolled down from the body when four men raised him from the floor. It was a woman's ring for marriage. Gregson and Holmes went to check the findings from the dead person's pockets: a gold watch, a gold chain, a gold ring, a gold pin, name-cards with the dead man's name--Enoch J. Drebber.
    Besides these, there were two letters, one to Drebber and the other to Stangerson. Gregson said that Stangerson was investigated to be Drebber's secretary. The letters were both from one ship company and to inform them the schedule of the ship to New York. It seemed the dead would be going to New York. Gregson and Holmes were discussing the case when somebody came to report a scarlet word was found. They walked up to a corner of a wall and saw the word "RACHE" written in blood on the wall where the wall paper fell off. Holmes carefully measured the distances between the traces and examined the letters of the word for another time with his magnifying glass. And then he said, "I would like to have a talk with the policeman who found the body." Gregson told him the policeman's address. Before leaving the place, Holmes told Gregson about the murder. 
