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Four days after the murder, French police arrest the probable culprit of it, a woman whom Lucas has married in Paris under an alias. She was seen in London near Lucas's house the night of the crime, but she is now useless as a witness because she has gone insane. Inspector Lestrade calls Holmes to the murder scene to examine something odd. Lucas bled over a drugget, and the blood soaked through it, but curiously there is no bloodstain on the floor under the drugget.
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Druggett or drugget is "a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side". Jonathan Swift refers to being "in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard".The Uffculme wills and inventories: 16th to 18th centuries, p.272 (Peter Wyatt, Uffculme Archive Group, 1997).
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Formerly, a drugget was a sort of cheap stuff, very thin and narrow, usually made of wool, or half wool and half silk or linen; it may have been corded but was usually plain. The term is now applied to a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling, used for rugs, tablecloths, etc.
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A great many pedlars and hawkers were registered in Shaftesbury, far more than in any other local towns. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1699 that, amongst its export restrictions on woolens, prevented the making of buttons “made of cloth, serge, drugget, or other stuffs”. The Act would remain in force for two hundred years, but in practice appears to have had little lasting effect on trade. Abraham's sons Abraham Jr. and Elias continued with the business, Elias opening a second depot at Bere Regis.
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On 9 May 1799, for the benefit of Miss Leak, he appeared for the first time at Drury Lane, and played Hardy in the Belle's Stratagem, and Lovegold in the Miser. On 27 July 1784 at Theatre-Royal, Manchester he was Sir Harry Sycamore in The Maid of the Mill In January 1800 he was engaged by Kemble for twelve nights at the latter's Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh making this his first appearance in Scotland. In February he was Mr Hardy in The Belle's Strategem and Justice Credulous in St.Patrick's Day on the 12th, Crepe in The Busybody and Cadwalladea in The Author on the 13th. On 12 June 1800, for O'Keeffe's benefit, he played at Covent Garden Alibi in the Lie of the Day, and Drugget in Three Weeks after Marriage; and for another benefit appeared next day as Isaac in The Duenna. On 3 August at Weymouth he performed in front of the king as Scrub in Beaux Strategem. On September 22 he was in Reading as Solomon in The Quaker. He was engaged at the Theatre-Royal, Hull for four nights, on Tuesday 4 November in The Miser and Who's the Dupe? as Lovegold and Old Doiley.
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