It was that fresh-bored hole in the ceiling that I could not
understand, and which Ralph Hammond assured me was not there Saturday
morning before Nita was killed.... Miles joined a piece of electric wire
to the dining room bell wires, and pushed it down through the hole he
had bored into the basement ceiling. Now if you'll come down with me--"
When the three men stood staring upward at the basement ceiling, Dundee
continued:
"See this long wire running along the ceiling from the hole beneath the
dining room bell? The tacks Miles used to secure it were also returned
to the tool chest, but he could not get rid of either the augur hole or
the tiny holes showing the course of the wire.... Let's follow it."
He led them across the basement to a door leading into a dank,
unfinished portion of the cellar, directly east of Lydia's bedroom and
beneath Nita's. The wire whose course they were following led under the
top frame of the door, and, with a flashlight in his hand, Dundee showed
how it continued along a rafter until it reached the place where it was
joined, by adhesive tape, to the wire Sprague had dropped from Nita's
bedroom floor above.
"Miles simply cut the wire here where it enters another hole through
Lydia's bedroom wall, and attached the new wire," Dundee explained.
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