Magnus McGilded's leather gloves was evidence in the trial of Magnus McGilded for the murder of Mason Milverton. McGilded was wearing the gloves during the omnibus ride in which Milverton was killed.
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Just after Milverton's murder, McGilded heard a scream and discovered Gina Lestrade in a storage compartment underneath his seat. He sat her next to Milverton's body, which fell on her at some point. Eventually, Lay D. Furst, who was riding on the roof of the omnibus, looked through the skylight into the inside of the carriage, and screamed upon seeing Milverton's body and someone with bloodstained hands beside it. Due to the angle of vision, he was unable to identify Lestrade, and assumed that the bloodstained hands belonged to McGilded, since no other passengers were known to have boarded at the time. The omnibus was stopped and the police were called in to arrest McGilded. The arresting officer confiscated the gloves as evidence and reported that McGilded's hands had no blood on them.
The gloves were presented at the beginning of McGilded's trial, with the defendant claiming that he had gotten the blood on them from trying to help Milverton after he had been stabbed. Furst and fellow passenger Bruce Fairplay were called as witnesses, but after a cross-examination by Ryunosuke Naruhodo, Furst was forced to admit that he had not actually seen the moment of the murder. Irritated at their testimonies were being called into question, Fairplay testified about the blood-soaked hands, but this only made things worse for him, as only the right glove had a bloodstain on it. Naruhodo tried to discredit Fairplay by giving possible reasons for him wanting to frame McGilded, but Furst concurred with Fairplay's claim. With both of them appearing to tell the truth, Naruhodo deduced that there had been another passenger, who was revealed to be Lestrade.