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He was powerless, predestined. The son of a bookmaker, he worked for him as a clerk. At 19, he entered into a marriage and there was one son, but it was a failure, and the couple separated after only two years. He paid maintenance. In 1929, his wife was removed to Gartloch Mental Asylum. Her diagnosis was said to be chronic alcoholism, but I would not vouch for it. The son was cared for by relatives. Queen himself was later seen by two psychiatric experts, and they concluded that he was hypersensitive and nervous, and that his margin of control was exceedingly small.

Howsoever they all made light of it at the tea-party, the happening that night, if it did take place, had been truly appalling. Queen speaks: ‘I was sleeping and was wakened up with a noise. I did not see anybody in bed, and I then got up and lit the gas to see what the noise was. I saw Chris sagging at the knees against the door, and I saw the two ropes, with a rope twisted round her neck. I immediately got her up as quickly as I could and took the rope off her neck. When I got her straightened up she fell against me, and I could see she was very much dazed.

Someone of the company suggested that they should all go to Cooper’s Brittania tavern, but Johnston objected that Cooper was a boxer. Irritated by his squeamishness, the others decided to play a joke on him, and heartily recommended Anderson’s house on the east side of the South Bridge as a jolly good tavern. It was, in reality, a house of ill repute, but it turned out that all the apartments were occupied, and they could not gain admittance. Directly across the street at 82 South Bridge was Mrs Mary McKinnon’s similar establishment.

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