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PS2617 A1 1895
ALD The murders in the Rue Morgue;

CX000 449 554

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BEQUEATHED BY
LOBERT LEWIS HARRISON
 EDGAR ALLAN POE

THE

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

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EDGAR ALLAN POE

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

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 The Aturdersin the Rue Henok Artes ellorque .
By Sogar 6.Toe .
ole is nosimprobable that a few partur sæpe in phrendozcicul suence will beach
to a beliey, in theexistina , if not to the actual discúvery and Weation ofan organi
of analysis. Ifthis power (whichmay be described , atitangli noh defined , as the
capacity for resolving thought into its elements) be not , in fact , an essential portion o
what cuteplilowkens term ideality , then thõre au mdeed many good reasons for suppo
sing it a primite faculty.That it may be more Cristcucur ogideality is here suggesed
in opposition tothe vulyar dictum ( founded upon the assumptions of grave authority),
Licencat dhat the calíulating and discriminating powers (causality and comparison )
areat variance with kāmaginativer that the three ,nie short, can hardlycoexist ,
But, although this opposed to received opiniin ,che idea will met appear ill-forunded
when we observe that the processesof inentin or creation are struttu aku witte the
piscesses of wesolution - theformer being nearly, is not absolutely, the Pater conversed .
It camos be dirbted that the mentul featnes discourseoloog as the analytical are,
in themselves, but littleg susceptible of analysis . We appreciate theme only in their effects .
We know of themar, vin other things , that they are always to their possessor , when mordi .
nately possessed , g the liveliest enjoyment.ets the Chong man ezuiti in hisphysi.
cal ability, delighing in such esuwis ag cull his muscles rues action , so glones the a .
nalyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the
most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas ,of con
undrums, of hieroglyphies - cahibiting in his solutions of each and all a degree of a a

cumin "while apicors to the ordinary apprehension maternatural. His resulto , bougit a
bout by the very vous and essence of mothod , have in trutu, thewhole air of intuition .
The fucilly in question is possibly much nvigorated by mathematical study, and
espcciculing bing that highest banish og it which ,unjustly, and mirelyon accountof ito relo
gradeorina'sind, hasbeen called ,'aoi par ezellencé ,analysis, zet6 calculate isnot
miloze to analyse . et chest-player, for example, dves the onewithout effort at the other .
It follows that the game of chers, in itseffects upon mental character , is freally mis
o understood
2 prefacing a somewhat
. Iam not now writing a treatires, but simplyIwill,therefore,the pecu--
occasin
liar narrative by observarins very much at Zandom
5 assertthat tai higher powers tothe reflective ritellect are more decidedly, and more
napulty Carede ling the mistantstons, gainey, dranchli tham by all the ilalvrata fria
voliti o chess. In this lalu ,where the pieceshave different and brave morrions, wrim
various and variable values, that which is only amples is mistaken (a not nnn
Sualcur.) for thatwhich is mofirend. The attention is here called punergullynito play.
defeat . The
instant,
Ifpossitibleflagmerforesan bein an oversight is committed resulting in injury
g not only manifold butinvolute , thechances og suchi wervizito
are multiplied ‫ز‬,and in nine cases out often it is the more ancentrative rather
, the contrary ,where the
than the more acute player who conquers. In draughtsion
moves are cinique and have frit little variation, the probabilites quadvertence are
daiminished, and the mere alinlin being left comparatively unemployed , what advan
tages ase obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen . To be less abstract-.
Let us suppore a game of traughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where ,
of wirse , no oversight is hos be"expected .It is desires that here thevilõry canbe decided
(the players being at all equal ) only by some recherche movement , the result of some strong
exerting the imalliet-. Sprived ordinary zesverces the analyst throwo himmelf into
the spirit of his opponent,identifir hineseef "therwilt , and not unfrequendy sees thus,
at a glance
seduce
, the sole methods (sometimes indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may
ili uniscalculaliön a hurry mlo error.
Whist hus long been nolid jn iç influence upon what ace krmed the calculating
q übellect have been knowne 6 take an appă .
powers ; and men of the highest order
wendy una cumsable delijpero min it, while
it ,while eschewingchess
ing chess as
as frivolous . Beyond
loubt there is nothing of a similar nature to grecilly Tasknig the faculty š ana -
lysis . The best chess- player in Christendem may be little more than the best player
of chess - but profinency inwhist implies capacity for success in all there more im
pertant undertakings where mind singgles with mund . When loay proficiency , I
mean that perfection in the game which includes a Corpprehensing all the Forces
(whatever be their character) from which legitimate advantage may me derived .These
are not only manifold but multiform , and lie frequently among recenses of
thinghr altogether maccessible ti thi' ordinary understanding. Jo observe aliultiely
isto remember distinctty , and so for the concentrative chess player will do very
well atwhist ;while the rules of Hoyle (themselves based upon the meie mechanism
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of the game )are sufficiently and generally comprehensible . Thus to have a retentive
memory and to proceed bythe book " me points commonly regarded as the sum
totul of good playing . But it is in matters beyond the Units q rule where
mere

the skill of the analyst is evinced . He makes, in silence , a host of observations

and inferences . So perhaps to his companions , and the difference in the extent of
the information obtained his not so much in the falsity of the inference as in
the quality of the observation . The necessary knowledge is that ofwhat to observe .
Our player confines himself not at all , nor, because the game is the object ,does
he reject deducthisions rising from things external to the game. eachHe examines the
countenance % partner , comparing it carefully with that 8 his opponents.
He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand ; often connting trump
by trump, and honor by honor , through the glasses bestowed by their holders upon
each . He notes every variation of face as the play progresses , gathering a fund of
thought from the differences in the expression of certainty,of surprise , of triumph or
of chagrin - rom the manner of gathering upa trick he judgeswhether the per
son takingit can make another in the suit . Embarrasment hesitation , eagerness or
trepidation . He recognizeswhat and is played Hūrough fint by the air writewhich it
whatcouch
is thrown upon the table . It casual or inadvertent world , the accidental drop
king or turning of anything comportant ,with the accompanying anxiety or careless
ness inщ regard to its concealment ; the counting of the tricks,with the order of their
arrangement ; embarrament, hesitation ,eagerness trepidation - all afford to
his apparently intuitive perception indications of the true state of affairs, the first
two or three rounds havingbeen played , he is in full possession of the contents %
each hand , and thenceforward puts down his cardswith as absolute a precision
of purpose if the rest of엉 the party had turned ontwards the faces of their own .
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity ; for
while the analyst is necessarily ingenious , the ingenious man is often utterly
incapable of analysis . I have spoken of this lutter faculty as that of resolving thought
necessary to glance upon thisor idea
into itselements , and it ispisionlyment to perceive the
necessity of the distinchón ine's ' The constructive combining power ,
bywhich ingenuity is usually manifested , and towhich the phrenologists ( I be .
heve erroneously ) have assigned a separate organ , supposing it a primitive faculty ,
Ras been so pôquenlt, wen'm höre where intellect bordewi otherwise upon ilivcy
as to have attracted general observation among writers in morals. Between 'n
yemurityandthe unitytie ability, the exist adifuence for gunler nichealitem
that between the fancy and the imagination , but of a character very strictly and
boyous. It will be found ,in fact , that the ingenious always funciful , and
the highly at ginative never otherwise thin profoundly analytic .
The narrative which followswillappear to the reflective reader somewhat in the light
q a commentary upon the propositions just Junumer
Residing in Paris during the anture and partofthe wester 7 /8 I there cora
ructed an
inlimey wilt u hinsicur 6.Auguste Dupi. This young gentleman was
ofan excellent,indeed of an illustrious family , but,by a variety of untoward events,
had been reduced to such poverty that the quondam energy of hii character succumbia
before it , and he creased to bester himself in the world ,or to care for the retrieval of his
förtimes. By courtesy of hisancreditor there still remained in lus ponessin a rule
renmant of This patrimony;and , d upone the income arising from this he managed ,
by means of a nigorous economy, to procure the necessanes, without of life,without
houbling himself about its superflucties. Books,indeed,were his sole lucuries, and
in Paris there are earily obtained pour first meeting was at an obscure library in
the Rue Montmartre ,where the accident of our both being in search of the same
hare and
remarkable volume brought us into closer communion . The
Saw each other again and again . Iwas deeply interested in the little family history
which he detailed to me with all that candor ofan henchmann which a Frenchman
only indules,Athen self is his theme . Iwas astonished too at the vast extent 7 his
reading and above all I fell att my soul enkridled within me by the wild fer
Paris what
invor,and Icould
theobjects than Ithefeltvivid
I thenonlysought that the society of suchimaginatio
freshness,&his n. ldSachingbe
a man wou
to me a treasure beyond price ; and thisfeeling afrankly confided to him It was .
 atlength arranged that weshould live together during my stay in thecity; and

‫)با‬
as myworldly incrustanceswere somewhat lessembarrassed than his own , Iwas
permitted to be at the expense of renting, and furnishing in a style which suited
the rather fantastic gloom of our common temper , a time eaten and grotesque
mansion , long deserted through superstitions intowhich we did not inquire ,
and titering to itfall in a whied and desolaliporhon of the Faubourg StGermain .
Had the wubine of our life at this place been known to theworld we should
have been regarded is madmew - although, perhaps, as madmen harmo
less nabire”. om seclusin was perfect . he admités no visitors whomasever.
Maced the locality of om returenen't had been carefully kept a secut pom my
own former associates ‫ز‬, and it has been many years since. Dupire had
ceased to kuow or be known ni Paris . We existed within ourselves alone .
It was afreak g fancyn ny freid ( forwhat else rhuuI call it ?).
theenamoured on the Night for her ouni rake ‫ ;ز‬and nito this bizarrérie,
as into all his others, I quelty bell ; giving myself up to hiswild whims
with an ulter abarıelon . The suble durinity would not herself dwell with us
The mor .
always, but we could connterfeit her presence . At the first dawn of
ning we closed all the marry shulling our old buildnig, hjuming a coryple
of tapers which , strongly perfumed , thre out only the ghasthest and feeblest
Gra'yo. By thi miaghise'wethen busied our soulsindreams - reá
eading ,
writing , orconversing , until warned bytheclock of the adveut q the line
Darkness. Then we fallid for the nito Uhe sliceli arní i arm , coulinuing the
copiis & theday, o roaming for and wide untila lalē hour, sukinig.anuid
thewild lights and shadows of the populous city, that infinity of mental ex
citement which quiet observation would afford .
At such times Icould not help remarking and adnuring (allhough pom his
zich ideality Ihad been prepared 't expect ] a peculiar aralytic ability inDupin .
He seemed too, to take an eager delight in its exercise , of not exactly in its dis -
play; and did not beschata tóanfess the pleasue thūs derivedy .Héboasliet 6
me,with a low chuckling laugh', think most men , ui regpect 6 ursuself, wore

windows in then bosoms , and waswont to follow up such assertions by direct

and
very manner at
startling proofs of his intimate knowledge of my own . His expression
these moments was frigid andabstract; his eyeswere vacunt in ;
while his voice , usually a rich tenor, rose into ce which would have

ation . Gåservbruitfor
Soundedpetulanity the deliberaliness and enlüe distinctüess 8 the
onunci ing hiresi hire moods Igleu dwelt medibalively upon
the old philosophy z thi Bi- Part soul, and anused mysely wilt hi fánézy
a double Dupine the creative and the resolvent
Let it not be supposect,fromwhat I have just said ,that Iam aetailing any
mystery, a porning any zonance . what I have described in Me Frenchman' was

buttheresulo q'an excitack ,orperhaps, 2.a diseasect intelligence. But I The characlü
of his remarks at the periods in question an examplewill best convey the idea .
night
We were strolling' one down a

Nozal : Benig both ,appab long aingthough

udy,occupiedwilt Sauert, unneither
the vicinitz
aús han Palaisn
3, theoptre
mylilable for fflen minutes as leaót. All at once Dupine brotre porik wilt Mere
words -
-"" Heusa
He very little fellow ,that's true ,and would do better for the Theatre aes
Variétés ..
There can be no doubt of that , Ireplica unwittingly , and not at first observing
( somuch had Ibeen absorbed in reflection ) the extra ontinary manner in which the
speaker had chimed in with my meditations. In an instant afterwards I recollected
myself, and myastonishmentwas profound .
" Dupin", said Igravely , this is beyond my comprehension . Ido not hesitate to
say that Iam amazed and can scarcely credit mysenses. How was it possible you
should know Iwas thinking of Here I pausect, to ascertain beyond a doubt
whether hereally knew of whom he,"
- " of Chantilly",said I thought
why do. you pause? youwere remarking to yourself
that his criminative figure unfitted him for tragedy.
Thiswas precisely what had formed the subject of my reflections . Chantilly
was a quondam cobler of the Rue St Denis ,who becoming stage- mad , had attempted
1
1
1
 the role of Terses, in brebillou's tragedy so collect,and been notoriously pasquinaded 4
for his pains
which
"Tell me, for God's sake",Iexlained ," the method - if method there be by
you have been enabled to fultom my soul in this matter ". de fact Iwas
even more startled than Iwould have been willing to express.
"Itwas the fruiterer,"replied my friend," who brought you to the conclusion ..

that the mender of soleswas not of sufficient height for Xences et id genus omne .
" The fructures ! - you astonish me - I know no fruiterer whatever . "
" The man who run up against you as we entered the street - it may
have been fifteen minutes ago."
I now remembered thub in fact a fruiterer , carrying upon his head a
huge basket 1 , thrown me down ,by accident , as we passed ,
from the Rue bou into the thoroughfare where we now stood ; butwhat thishuch
to do with Chantilly I could not possibly understand .
There was not
he said ," and that
particlecompre
you a may hend all ieclearly
of charlataner aboutwe Dupin ,"I will explaine",
will first retrace the
course of your meditations from the moment in which Ispoke to you until
thiet 7 the rencontre with the fruiterer in question . The larger links of the chain
run this orion ,, Dr Nichol , Epicurus, stereotomy , the street
Chantilly , onion
stones , the fruiterer ."
There are few personswho have not ; at some period of their lives , anused
themselves in retracing the steps bywhich particular conclusions of their own minds
loave been attained . The occupation is often full of interest ް‫ ;ފ‬and he who attempt
it for the first time is uanssially astonished by the apparently illimitable distance
& incoherence between the starting point and the goal . What , then , must have
been my amarement where I heard the Frenchman speak what he had just
spoken , and when I would not help acknowledging thert he had spoken the
truth . He wntinued -
" we had been talking of horses,if Iremember aright, just before leaving the
Pure 6. This was the bust Jubject we discussed . As we crossed into this street ,
a fruiteres, with a large bushes won his head , brushing quickly past us, thrust
you upou a pile of paving stones collected at a spot,where the causeway is
undergoung repair. you stepped upon one ofthe loose fragments, slipped, slightly
strained your ankle , appeared vexed or sulky, muttered a few words, turned
toticularly
look back pile , andyou thendid procedat
at thetowhat
attentive in silence . Iwas not pas .
- but observation has become with me
of late species of necessity."
You kept your eyes upon the ground - glancing with a petulant ex
pression at the holes and ruts in the pavement,( so that I saw you were still
thinking of the stones) until we reached the little alley called da martine ,which
hus been parect ,by way of experiment ,with the overlapping and rivated blocks .
Here your countenance brightened up , and perceiving your lips move Iwould
murmured
not doubt that youinancible to yourself the word sterestonic ! You
turned the same murmur,with a knit brow , as is the thin crust
a man
basking his memo
me ry , until I considered that you sought the
Greek deriation 7 notresfindq
This without bensiz boughtto think come comment in 8comunes
the theo
Epicurus ; and us,when we discussed this subject not very long ago , I men
tored to you how singularly yetwith how little notice the raque guesses

of that noble feelGeekthat had metwith confirmation in the late nebular cosa
mogony you could not avoid casting your eyes upwards to
the great rebula in orion , and I certainly expected that you would do so.
you did look up ; and I now was assured that I had correctly followed
your steps. But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly which appeared in
yesterday's Musee ,the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the
cobler's change of nause upon assuming the buskin , quoted a very peculiar
datin live upon whore meaning we have often conversed . I mean the line
Perdidit'antiquum littua prima vonum .
I had told that this was in reference to crion , formerly written urion ;
you
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preru artai pungenciis conneelid urilli Utus explanation, I was aware Hack
you would not have e
forgotten it . It was clear , therefore , that you arred
not fail to com bin the two ideas q Orion a Chantilly that you did
combine them 9. saw by the character of the smile which passat ver
you lips . que Bergen of the poor cooler's namolutions . So far, you beut
been stooping in - but now I saw you draw yoursey up to“
your full height . I was then sure that you replected upin ite oliminu -
this figure of Chantilly . At this poich I niterrupted give meditations
to uusapt dothat
be would
as in fact he was a wry little pillow - bat Share tery -
better as the Theatre des variétés . "

Utus we were
Notlong after thiswe were kvokuis ouer au
evening ultimi g Le Hibunal " when the
es
follownia parcsupl arrested ou attentem ,
Extraordinary Murders. This moruriy sabarat three o'clock, the bubetaut glie
Luarlar S -Roch were wwused from alup by a succesruro y larrepee thriks, usinis, ap
parently porn the fourth story of a house in the Rue Morgues , known to be in the sole
cccupancy ,come chudanue L'lopanaye and hu dangutú eltáćemorielle Carrillod '
Espauaye . áfti dome delay, acearunech ly a fruittess attenyr o procur aduision
in the usual manner , the gatewaywas broken in with a crow -bur, and right
orling the neighbourers entered , wéompanied by two soudatammet soudarned .
By this tirine the cries had ceased ;brit as the party rushed up the first flight of
sraeis, hoo or more nongle Weces, ni ungry coutention were disáiguished, forskning
and seemed to proceed from the upper part of the house, to the second landing was
buched, these sorms, also, bad ceared , and every there's remained perfecttis gineb.
The party spread tēmuelves,and husnied furiewuni 5 zovne uper arrinig,at
a lause bach clube vi the fourtti storil the dvory wluch , hering forund locked,leve
write the key mrid e,wasforcedgen ) a spectuele presented iliegi'wlih Hrick 'co
me preient het lens with hoster Huci with árleniskeueut.
ery땟 The apauhulub was ui Itue wildlesh disordee - the furnitui Broken und Herown
about in all diectors .
only one bedstead ; and from this the bed led
There was
q the floor . on a chain lay
w
been removed , and thrown into the middle
raror becureaced with blood on the hearth were two or three long and thick
of grey human hair , also dabbled ni blood, and auming to have been
tiened if
ear
pulledbed by the roots. Upon the floor were found four Napoleous ,
rug of topar , tice large silver spores , and three tenaller g metal del'alger ,
and two bugs containing nearly four thousand francs in good. The draw ,
ers of a berean ,which otood in one corner , were opon , and had been ap
parently rifled , although mang actueles ocull remained in them . a small
crin safewas discovered under the bed (nos under the beartead); It was
open , with the key still in the door de had no contents beyond a few
old letters and other papers of little consequence .
bit , an unconal quan -
of Madame L'Erpanage no traceswere here seen i

lit of tool beiaténg obs

( lisywille sul edneinthe
teervwip
fiv pla ,a searchruw
g the daueghterce,head dow s ma
waart de in the cheniney , and
s , was dragged Herrefros ,
it harriz been thuis forced up the narrow aperture for a considerable distance
The body was quitewarm upon examining it ,many excorications were
parcelised , no doubt occuoioned by the violence with which it had been thrust
up and disengaged upon the face were many severe scratches , and upon the trans
clack bruises,and deep indentations of finger nails , as if the deceased had
Afli aHorongla muestizutrin oz wery portion gite housewriteoutfatte
discovery ,where
the party made its way with a small paned und in the rearg
the corpse
Me
builduig ,
that , ufou lang g the old lady with her Herout to entuely cut
un
attempt to raise her, the besed fell off and rolled to some dist_
auce . The body, as well us the head,were fearfully mutiluted - the formuerto
much so as scarcely to retain any Ramblance ý humanits .
to this borrible mystory there is not as yet ,we believe , the slightest clei's.
The next day's paper had these additional particulars .
The Trapedy in the hue elorgue . Mony widurituals have been
examined in relation to this most extraordinary and frightful affair !"
 [ theword usine 6
has not yet,in hance,that levity of import which it conveyswith us) " but no
thing whatever has transpired to throw light upon it . We give below all the
malinoil testimony elicited ..
Pauline Dubourg ,laundress, depores Miat she has known borte Viz deceased
for three years, having washed for them auring that period . The old lady and
her daughter seemed on good tums - very affectionate towards each other . Theywere
excellent pay. Gould not speak in regard to their mode or means of living . Be
lieved that Madome of. told fortunes for a living was reputed to have money put
any persons in the houseswhen the called for the clothes or took them
home . Was sure that they had no serwant in employ. There appeared to be no
furniture in any part of the building except in the fourth story .
Pieve Morean ;Gbarcaust , deposes dial he has been in die habet q selling
small quantities of tobaces and snuff to Madame d'Espanaye for nearly four years .
Tous born in the neighbourhood , and has always resided there . The deceased and
her daughter had occupied the house in which the corpses were found for more
than six yeaw . Itwas formerly occuped by a jeweller , who undevlet the upper
roons to various persons. The house was the property of Madarne d . She became
dissatisfiedwith the abuse of the premises by her tonant , and moved into them herself ,
refusing 5 let any portion . The old lady was childish witness had seen the
daughter some five or six trimes during the six years. The two hired an exceedmisty
retired life were reputed to have money. Had heard it said among the neigh -
bours that Madame od . told fortunes did noh behave it . Had never seen any
person enter the door except the old lady and her daughter , a porter once or
horic , and a physician some light .
orten Frises

Many other persons, neighbours, gave widence to the sauce effect, cho one
was spoken of as frequenting the house . It was not known whether there were any
living connexions of Madame L. and her daughter . The shutters of the front
vendors were veldom opened . Those in the rear were always losed with the
exception of the large back soon , fourth story The house was a good house a
hot and .
very
Isidore muset , gendarme , deposes that he was called to the house about
three o'clock in the morning , and found some twenty of thinly hersous at
the front doon , endeavourning to gain admittance . Forced it open , at lenghts,
gateway with a beyneb anob with a crow_bar. Had but little difficulty in getting it
oren , on account of its bering a double folding or doust , and bolted neither at gate
bollom nor top . The shricks were continued until the dose was forced and gate
then suddenly ceased . They seemed to be the sueams of some persone or per
sous) in great aganya were loud and drawn out , not thook and quick .
witness led the way upstairs. Upon reaching the first landing heard , two
vories in loud and angry contention - the one a gruf voice , the other much
shiriller - a very shane voice . Giuld distinguish some words of the former ,which
was that huushman . was positive that it was nob a woman's voice . Could
distinguish% the words" sacre and diable . The shrill voice was that of a po
reiquer . Could not be sure whether it was the voice of a man as of a woman .
Could not make out whatwas said , but believed the language to be spanish .
might have distinguished some words if he had been acquainted with the spansih .
The state
q the won and % the bodies was described by this witness as we
described their yesterday.
Henri Duval , a neiſhbour, and by hade a silversmitte,deposed that he was one
% the party who first entered the house . Garrofborates the testimony of Musét.
in general . As soon as they forced an entrance , they reclosed the door to keep
oup the wood , which collected very fast , noskwithstanding the lateness 8 the hours
The shrill voice , thiswitness truites,was that of an Italian .Was certain it was
now reuch . Gould now he same that it was a man's voice . It might have been
a woman's . was acquainted with the Italian language , and althougtata Could
not distinguish the words was onanced by the intonation that the speaker
was an Italian . Knew Madame L. and her daughter . Had conversed with
both frequently.was sure that the shrill voice was not that either 2 the de
eared .
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among
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heeard
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cgrouff
hinks
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speaker
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was
make
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Not speaking heuch was examined through an interpreter.

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Odenhumer , restauratour . Thiswither volunteered histestimony, is a

haline
q Anisterdam . Was passing the house at the time of the shricks. They last
ed for several minutes - probably ten . Theywere long and hand
and distressing . was one of thosewho entered the building . Corroborated this
prevrais wvidence as every respect but one was sure that the shrill wricewas
thatof a monqo Trenchinan . Gould not distinguish the words altered .
They were and and quick - unequal - vonesermes quich , sometimes deliberate.
-

- gration apparently in fear as well as in anger . The voice was harsh - not
to much shrill as harsh . Could not call it a shrill voice . The gruff υπτια
said repeatedly sane, diable , and once mon treu .
Jules Mignaud , banker of the firm q enignaud et Fils, Que Deloraine.
Is the elder Mignaud . Madame d'Espanage had some property. Had opened and
account with his banking house in the spring of the year ( eight years pre
vróxsly.). Made frequent deposites in small sums. Had checked for nothing until
the third day before her death ,when she took out interson the sumy 4000
frances. This sum was paid in gold , and a clerk sent homewith the money.
Adolphe Le Bon , clerk to heMesseurs Mign and et Fils, deposes that on the
day in question about noon , ac compomec Mucome L' Espaucoge to her 2 -
Lioence with the 4000 frances, put up intwo bugs. upon the door bening opened
Mademoiselle L. appeared and took from his hands one of the bags ,while the
old lady whered him of the other. He then bowed and departed . Did not see
any person in the street at the time . Itisa bye sheet a very lonely.
William Brid , tailor , deposes that he was one q the partywho entered the
house . Is an
Englishman . Has hired in Paris two years. was one of the first to
ascend the stais . Heard the voices in contention . The gruff vorce was that of a heach
man . could make oul Ieveral words, but cannot new remember all thead dis -
. sis

several
tincity 'sacre and mon dieu . There was a sound at the moment as if of lond
venedu rus

persons struggling scraping & scuffling sound . The shrill vorcewas very -
lou der than the greff one . Issure that itwas not the voice of an Englishing
peared to be that of a german might have been a woman's voice . Does not understand German .
hinon
ers
lia
ral

Foury the above namned witnesses, being recalled , deposed that the door % the
wit
gene
anv
.Ita
bora atites
Taofoever
test

chamber in which was found the body of Mademoiselle L.was locked on the in
Nnthe
an

Jide when the purly reached it . Everything was perfectty silent - no groans on
noises oftheanybackkindand. Upon
front forcing the no person
room weredoordown and wasfirnilyseenfastened
. The windows
boch % from within
Adoor between the two rooms was closed , but not loched . The dog leading
HomeVi frunk wom nitothis passagewas lasmismas elementemodernogató
the
A small room in the front of the house, on the fourth story ,as the head ५ pasa
sage,was alsoopen the door being ajar . This room was crowded with old becs
boxes, and so forthportion
. These were carefully removed and searched . There was not
inch of any 2 the house which was not carefully searched . Sweepswere
sent up and down the chimneys. The housewasa four story one ,with garrets(mansardes).
A trap door on the roofwas nailed down very securely did not appear to have
been
tention opened breakingTheopentimetheclapsung
for years.
and the between the hearing of the vorces in con
room door was variously stated by thewit
nesses , some made it as short as three minuter - some as long as five . The door
was opened with difficully Trianon . Morgue .
alfouro Garcio , undertaker , deposed that he resides in the Rue the first
the murder ) is a native of spain ,was one q the party who entered the house .
Did not procked up stairs . Is newous,and was apprehensive of the consequences of
agitation . Heard the voices in contentions . The griff voice was that q a French a
man . Could not distinguish what was said . The shrill voice was thich 8 an
Englishmen -is sure ofthis. Does not understand the English language , but judges by
the intonation .
1 the
Several witnesses recalled,here testifueck
fourth storywere too narrow to admit the pussage
Wat the chemineys ,all the roomson
:being Bysweeps' were
f
means
brukes such as are employed by those who clean chimneys . There
brushes were parsed up and down every flue in the house . There is 20
,
bywhich any one woul d have desc ended whil e the party proc eede d up stai rs . Me bodyof
Mademoiselle of sipariane was so firmly wedged in the chimney that it would not be you
down until four or five of the party mited their sheugth .
 ol
Paul Dumas,physinan, deposesthiet hewas called torew this bodies alvur
day break . They were thene boste lying on the sacking of the bedstead in the cham
berwhere Mademoiselle L.was found . The corpse of the young lady was much
bruised and exarated . The fact that it had been thrustup the ychimney would
sufficiently account for these appearances. The throatwas greatl chaped . There
were several deep scratches just below the chin , together with a series livide
pots which were evidently the impression of fingers . The facewas fearfully dis
colored , and the eye -bull's protruded . The tongue had been partially bitten through .
A large brousewas discovered upon the fit of the stomach , produced apporently by the
Messine % a knee . In the opinion of M. Gumus , Mademoiselle d.Esparcize and
been throttled to death by some person or persons unknown . The corpse of the
mother was horribly mutilated all the bones of the right leg and arme were
more or less shattered . The left tibre much splintereds, as well as all the ribs
8 the left side . whole body dreadfully bruised and discolored . Itwas not
possiblebreto the injuries had heen inflected a heavy club 8 wood
how cro
say
OT a ad n , a chair , any large heavy and obture weapon , could
har 8
have produced such results, of wielded by the hands ya very powerful man
No woman could have inflected the blowswith any weapon . The head on the
deceased ,when seen by watness ,was entirely separated from the body, andwas
also greatly, shattered . The throat had evidently been cut with some very
Tharp instrument - probably with a zazor .
Aliandre Etienne surgaon , was called with M. Dunas to view the
bodies . borroborated the testinong , and the qunions. of M. Dannas.
Nothing farther of importance was clicited , although several ngotherupora
rter

examined . a murder to mysterious , and so perplexi in all

toutadonscienz ly
.s´Roch

sous were

Tourdain't
is particulars, was never hefure committed ni Paris of indeed a murder

infrequent
bmeasures
Lua

protereo
has been committed at all . The police entirely at fault - an urusual

fcmindo
coking
mohga
adested
occurrence ni affezi's 8 this nature . There is not , however , the shadow ga

paracle
these
vast
illy
are
rok put
omi
the
;oThey
vid
l,first
clue apparent.

to
The evenmg odbor the super stated that the greatest exitement still
continued in the ho
e
carefully re-searched , and fresh examthat premises in sesquestion ute
inattheions witres
had been
instit d but
all o purpose . A postenpt , however, mentioned
to no that adolphe Le Bon
had been arrested , and imprisoned - although nothing appeared to criminate mudiĝub
him, beyond the facts already detailed .
entendre
chambre
misur
Dupin seemed singularly interested in thee progress of nes ofan at leash
-four
robe

so I judged from his manner , for he made no comments Whatever . It

huo
Jás
de
.la

was only after the announcement that de Bou had been insprisoned, that
he asked me my opinion respecting it ..
I would merely agree with all fans in wridering it an insoluble
mystery . honored to the perpetratory the battery I saw no means by
which it would be possible to trace besin the murderer. shell
" The must not judge of the means", sand Dupin by thisacum
an examination . The Tarisian police , so much extolled for
brane sie o
en , au
luns
unning , but no more . There is no wethod in their proceedings , beyond
the method of the moment . The results attanied by them me not infre
quently surprising , but, for the most part , are brought about by simple
diligence and activity. When there qualities are mavailing their scheines
fail . Erdocs was a good guesser , and a persevening man . But ,without
‫ ا‬-
an educated thought, he erres continually by the very intensity of his in
hestigations. He infaired his
his vision by holding the object too close . He might
see, perhaps , one or two ponits with unusual clearners , but in so doing
he necessarily lost right of the matter, as awhole . Thus there is mah a thing
as bening too profound . Truth does not alway be in a well .
as regards the most important knowledge Isdo believe that sheIn isfactin, .
varia her 2superf
Leeh bly not . The depth his oftener in the valleys where we
and icial
upon the mountain tops where the is found . The modes.
and sources of this kind of error are well typified in the contemplation of estu.
the heavenly bodies. To look at a star by glances - to view it in a sidelong way
by turning towards it the extenor portions of the retina inasse it distinctly as
 .papoers
( more susceptible of feeble impressionsof light than the interior ) isto behold the star

tdai ly
distinctly is to have the best appreciation & its lustre - a lustre which grows in
just in proportion aswe turn an version fully upon it. at greater number of roys
actually fall upon the eye in the latter case , but in the former there is the more
refined capacity for comprehension . Byundre profundity we perplex and expeeble ,
thought - andit is possible to make wen venus herself canish from the firmament by
scruting too motuined , too concentrated , and to direct .
As for these murders, let us enter into some examinations for ourselves ,
we make up an opession respecting them , an inquing will afford
before
us amusement [ Ithought this are add cerin , so afphed, but said nothing ]
1 " and , besiles , se Bou once renclered me a service for which Iam nob un .
pateful . We will so and see the premises with our own eyes . I know
G- , the Prefêt de Police , and shall have no difficuety in obtaining
tesiyronmwiasssioobntain. ed , and me proceeded abonce to the Rus Marque.
is
permssar
theThisnece
This is one of those inserable thoroughfares which untervence between the
Rue Richelien and the Rue de Roch . It was late in the afternoon when
we renched it for this Quartier is at a great distance from that in
which we usided . The house we easily found for there were still many
1
persons gaining up at the closed shutters ,with an objectless curiosit y , from the
way. Itwas an ordinany kreachaber n Parisia house , with a
of the
opposite side on one side of which was a glaredwatch -box ,with a sliding
1
pance
gateway,in the window , indicating loge de concwiges . Refore going
turned down an alley, and then agan turning , passed in the rear

menedt
he walked the streak , as well as the

stepp
ur
of the building - Dupin,meanwhile , esamining thewhole neighbourhood ,

one ce
matoefora
in
fi
house , with a minuteness of attention forwhich I could are no possible objest .

ofof
th
Retracing on steps we came again to the front of the dwelling,rang , and ,
having shown on credentials,wire adniaed by the agents in charge . We went up stars-
into the chamberwhere the body of Mademoiselle a Espanaye had been found , and
where both the deceased still lay. The disorders of the room had as usual , been

, pers
of enly
suffered to exist . Isaw nothing beyond what had been stated in the" Tribunal . Dupin.

do
pa
th
sentenired everything ,not excepting the bodies of the victims . We then went into the
home mycomt
other rooms ,and into the yard ; a gendarme accompanying
until dark
Camination occupied us wućil dark , when we took on departure . and
On ourtha
wayt - Je les
menagais :Ihave saidphrthat
for this asethetherwhink lishfriend
e is noofEngmy equivawere
lentmanifold
. itwas his humor now ,
to decline all conversations on the subject of the murder until after we had taken
a bude of wine together waytothe money or byght . He then asked me, Suddenly , if Ihad of –
Herved anything peculiar at the seene of the atrocity
There was someshing in his manner of empicaturing theword " peculiar "which
caused
" No,menoth
to studde r,iarwithou
ing pecul t knowi
," Isaid ng why.
,"nothi ng more at least, thanweboth saw
bunalpape",r he! replied , "has not entered , I fear, into the unusual hossor
stal"edLe inTrithe
of the thing . But we will not revert to the idle opinions of this posit . It appears to me
that this mystery is considered insoluble for the very reasons which should cause
it to be regarded as easy y saluhon - Imean for the outre chaccedia 8 il
uresder
featmur . Theitsepolfli,ce but confonnded by the seeming absence y motive not for
are for the atrocity of the minder . They are purrled by the
the
jcemeris in porribility ofreconcilvrig ite vovies heard in writtution , with the fut
baris but the assessinated Mademorselle L'
discorered
Esp noyeone was
thatana
, an that d itere werupe
no means o eguess wilhouthru t thest not the
icethe head
with
esce ndin g thewild disor der a the wom ; the corpse the old
donwards upider theatio
chimns
ney , the frig htfu l muti lati on of the body of
lady ; there cons e
, with thor just ment ioned s
, and other which Ineed
not mention , have sufficed to paralyse the powers, by putting completely at fault
ike teasted acumen, of the governnicul asenly . They have fallen into the gross but common
error
E.confounding the unusual wilttheabstruse .But išis by thesedeviations
from the common place – by there prominences from the plane of the ordinary,that
to reason feels its way if as all , in to moresearch after the true . In investications.
coheck what has occurred's for at
such aswe are now pursuing, it should not be
what has occurred which has never occurred before . Luchon proportion as that a
ton has appeared insoluble to the pobushas been that fribilizalito abait . I have
arrived at its solution. In fact , the facility with which I shall arrive , or have.
arrived , at the solution of this mystery, is in an exact ratio with its apa
1/
harent insolubility in the eyes of the police .
I stared at the speaker mi muti astonishment . He continneds.
 10
Ian
am now
awaiting, antinnet he,biking awards the door 8 om apartment -
am now awaiting a person who, although perhaps not the perpetrator of these butcheries,
must have in some measure , implicated in their perpetration of the worst portion of the
cuines committed it is probable that he immocent . I hope thaj I am right m His sup .
hvrition &for upon it Ibuild my expectation of reading the entire riddle . I look for the
man here in this rerm - every moment. It is true that he may not arrive , but the pro.
babilityis that hewill should he come,it will be necessary to detain him . There are pis-.
tols ; and we both know how to use them when the occasion demands their use .
wenton ,
I look the pistols, scarcely knowingwhat Idid ,or beheringwhat I heard ,while Dupin
I have already spoken of his abstract manner
very much as % in a solilogy:
as such times. His discourse was addressed to myself , buthis voice , although by no
means loud , had that intonation which is commonly employed in speaking to some one
at a great distance . Hiseyes,vacant in expression , regarded only the wall.
" That the verces heard in contention ", he said , " by the party upon the stairs,were not
the voices oq the women themselves ,was fully proved by the evidence . This releves us of all doubt
uponм the questionwhether theold lay med have first destroyed the daughter, and afterwards have
committed micide , I speak of this point chiefly for the sake of method ; for the strengti q Madame
L'Espanaye would have been alltily unequal to the task of trusting her daughter's corpse up the
chimney asitwas found , and the nature of the wounds upon her own person entirely preclude
theidea of self-destruction . Murder then , has been committed by some third party ; and the
veries of this third partywere those heard in contention . dil me now advent - not to thewhole
testimong respecting there vries - but towhatwas peculiar in that testimony. Did you obserne
anything realed that,while all the witnesses agreed is supposing the gruff voice to be thatofa
Frenchman , therewas much disagreement in regard to the shrill or,as one nidividual termed
it , the harsh vorie .
Thatwas the evidence itself " said dupin , " but it was not the peculiarity of the evidence .
You have observed nothing distinctive . Re-employing my own words Imay say that you
have pointed out no prominence above the plane of the ordinary ,bywhich reason may feel
her way. get there was something tobe pointed out. The witnesses , as you remark , agreed
about the gruff vorce ; they were bere unanimons . But in shrill wie die pe o
regard to ite
chiarity is not that they disagued - but chat,while an Italian , an Englishman , a spaniard ,
a Hollander , and a trenchman attempted to describe it , each one spoke of it as that of a for
his own not
ejner Each is sure that it was not the voice q
mu
% countrymen . Each likens it
to the vice q an individual of any nation with whore language he is coversant but the
anverse . The Frenchunan suppores it the voice of a spancand,and " might have distinguished
some worlo head he been a cgucnled will die Spanish " . The Dutchman maritain's teasie it
of a Frenchman
have been thatexamined
tothiswitnesswas ; butwe find it stated that not understanding hench
through an interpreter ". The Englishman thinks it the voice of a
German , and " does not understand German ". The Spaniard is sure that it is that q A1

sh . !
Englishman , but girdges bythe internation "altogether, as he has no knowledge of the EngliAussia
The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian , but has never conversed with a native q요
A second henchman differs,moreover,with the first, and is positive that the verice is that of an
Italian ;but not being womerant of that tongue ,is ,like the spamund " unvinced by the unto
nation." Now , how strangely unusual must that vice have really been ,aboutwhich such
testimony as this could have been listed inwhose tices,even , denizens of the five great
divisions o f Europe would
asiatic
recognire nothing familiar ! En will saythat it might have been
the voice of an q african Neither otsiatics nor africans abound in Paris ; but ,
without denying the riference, I will just now merely call you 'attention to treponits while
have relation to thisbric . The verce is termedby one witness"harsh rather than Shrill ".
It is represented by two others to have been quick and unequal ? Nowords- nothing no Somu

resembling words - was . any nitress mentioned as distinguishable.

" Iknow noth,continued supin ,"what ipression . Inny have made , so far,upon
Jonnon understanding , but I do not hesitate to say that legitimate deductions even
from this partion of the testimony the portion respecting the gruff and shrill voices -
are in themschues sufficent to Engender a suspicion which should bras, or give deiection
to we further progress in the investigation of the mystery. I said bezitionate deductions; but
my meaning is not the o falliy exprered . Idisegico to niply that the deductions were
propis ones , and that the suspicion anno nevitably from them as the sungle ro
the sole & bear
sult. What the suspicion is, however, I will not say just yet. I merely with you
in mind that with mysaf it was sufficienity forcible to give a definite firm -a antain
tendency to my inquines in the chainber .
Let in now
transport ourselues , in fancy, to that chamber . What shall we first
 11
Sick here ? The meansof agress emperyace by the murderers. It is not too much to /say hist
we neilter q uo believeinatnatural events. Madame and clademoiselle diistamayo
were not destroyed by spirits. The duers of the dark deed were materical , and escaped materially .
Then how ? Fortunately, there is but one mode of reasoning upon this point , and that made must
lead us to a definite decision . Let us examine each by cuch , the Lossible means of egress . It is
clear that the assassins were in the room where the modernoselle anayewas sand , or at least in the
som adjoining ,when the party ascended the stairs . It is then only from these two apart
ments thatwe have to seek for issues.direction
the masonry of the walls , in
The police. Nohavesecret
laidusues
have the floors, the ceilings, and
could have escaped their
every
vigilance . But, not trusting to their eyes , I examined with my own . There were then , no
secret issues Both durs leading from the rooms into the passage were securely locked,with the keys
inside . Let us turn to the chimneys. There , although of ordinarywidth for some eight orten
feel above the hearths,will not admit ,throughout their extent , the body of a large cat
The impossibilit of egress bythe means already statedbeing thisabsolute ,we are reduced to the
windows. Through ythose of murderers
the front room no me auld have escaped without notice from the
crowd in the street . The hose the back room .
must have passed , ther , through 7
Now ,brought to this conclusion in so unequivocal a manner as we are , it is not our part,
as reasoners to reject it on account of appecuent impossibilities . It is only left for us to prove
that there impossi
are bilitie s are not such !
" There two windows in the chamber one of them is unobstructed by furniture , and
iswholly visible . The lower portion of the other is hidden from view bythe head of the unwieldy
bedstead which is thrust close up against it . The former was found securely fastened from
within . It resisted the utmost force of those who endeavored to raise it . I large ginlet- hole
had been pierced in its frame to the left , and a very start nail was found fitted therein
nearly to the head. upon examining the other window a similar nail was seen similarly
3 rigorous attempt to raise this sash failed also . The police were now en
mely satisfied that egrentionhad not been made in these directions . And therefore , it was thought
er
matt
" My • super
own examieroga
nation was somewhat more particular ,and was so for the reason Ihave just
given - because here itwas , I know that all apparent impossibilities must be proved to be not
such in reality
" Iproceededto think than - a posteriori . The murderers did escape from one of these windows. This
-being so they wouldwhich
the unsideration not have
put a re-fustened
slop ,throughtheitstashes from theto the
obrirusness, insideverwing
as theyof were foundin aufastened
the police quar..
ter). yet the rushes were fastened . They must ,there have the power of fastening themselves . There was
no escape from this conclusion . I stepped to the unobstructed casement ,with crew the nail with some
difficulty, and attempted to raise the sash . It resisted all my efforts,as the ticipated , a concealed
spiring rust , I now knew , exist , and this corroboration idea convinced me that my premises,
of my
at least,were correct , however mysterious still appeared the circumstances attending the nails a
search soon brought to light the hidden spring . Irened it, and satisfied with the disco
very,fulforbore
care uprause
Inowtoreplac . regarded it attentively . A person passing out through thiswindow
sash and
ed thethenail
might have reclosed it, and the springwould have caught but the nail could not have been replaced .
MA

The conclusion was plain , and again narrowed in the field of my investigations . The assassins must
home escaped through the other window supposing ,then the springs upon each sash to he the same ,
probable , there must be found a difference between the nails, or at least between the modes
of was
their finture . Getting upon the sacking of the bedstad , I looked over the head - board minutely
at the second casement . Parsing my arm Lown behind the board Ireadily discovered and pressed
the spring,whichwas, as I had supposed , identical in character with its neighbour . I now looked at
the mail . Itwas as storst as the other , and apparently fitted in in the same manner - driven in
nearly up to the head . think so you must have misunderstood the na

theyoinducti ons.that
u will sung Iwasa puzzled
To we ; but ifI you
sporting phrase, had not once been at fault . The scent had never
tine
an% instant been lost . There was flaw in any link 3 the chain . inI had trached the secret
no

to its ultimate result - and that result was the nail . It had , I say , every respect , the appear -
its fellow in the other window ; but this factwas an absolute millity ( conclussive as it might
seem q to be compared with the consideration that here ,at this point, terminated clue .
There must whebe nsomething wrong Isaid , about this nail . I touched it ; and the head thewith
shank was
an sich my fingers . The
the shank , came off m The of
inabout eight of ,where itof had
gimler-hole
the the been broken fracture was old (for us
were incrusted with rust ) and had apparently been accomplished by the blow of ham .
mer
edges,which had partially imbedded in the top of the bottom sush , the head portion of the nail . I
new carefully replaced this head portion in the indentation whence I had taken it , and the re
semblance to a perfect nail was complete . I gently raised the lash for a few inches the head
went up with it , remaining firm in its bed . I closed the window ;; and the semblance of he

" The riddle , again

whole nail was perfectnow unriddled . The assassins had escaped
so far,was through the window
which looked upon the bed . Droppin g of itsown accord upon their exit
clored by them ) it had become fastened by the spring , and itwas the retenti (or perhap
on
s this
purposely
spring which had been mistaken by the police for thatof the nail - farther inquing being
their considered unnecessary
The next question is that of the mode % descent . Upon this point Ihad been soffsiently
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 might brine futand a half 12
thebuilding . About this stot pan the casemouh
Satisfied in my walk with you ngaround hom
in question there ran a lightni -rod this rod it would have been impossible for any
one to reach the window itself ,"o ony nothingr g enteringit. I observeduam, howeve r, s ferrades
enterthatthe
Shutters of the fourth story were % Unëpeculia kund called by Paris .carp
-a kund rarely employed at the present day, but frequently seen upon the old housesat
yous and Mour deau x . They me in the form of ordinary door (a single ,not a folding door)
at
excep hab the lower hay is Platti ced or work ed'm open thell's - thisfordning an excellent
holdfor thi hando. In the meseul vistance these Chutters are fullythin fletand'a haybroud .
When we saw them from the rear of the house , they were both about half open that is to say
they stood 033 at right angles fromntthewall . It isin probabl e that the police ,aswell as myself ,
examined the back of the teneme ; but,if to, looking at these ferrades in the line %
their breadth ( as they must have done ) they did not perceive this great breadit itself , or ,
at all events, failed to take it into due consideration . In fact ,having once satisfied them -
selves that no exess could have been made in this quarter , they would naturally
examination . Itwas clear to me , however , that the shutter
bestow here a very cursory to
belongingfourto thefeetwiand
within ndowa half theadlightni
attheof he of thengbe- rod d , i also
d wo.ulItwas g fully
swineviden r, each
open,by
t that exertion
unusual arid
activity courage , an entrance into the window , right
ofhave from
엄 a very degreet of ,have
the rod nigh been thus effected By reaching to the distance of four two
feet and a half (we now suppose the shutter open to itswhole extent ) a robber might have
takena firm grasp upon the trelles -work Letting go then ,his hold upon the rod , placing
his feet firmly against thewall, and sprenging boldly from it , he might have suring itie
shutter so as to close it , and if we imagine the window open at the time, might even
have swing himself into thellyroom . that I have spoken of a very unusual degree of-
in mind
" I wrih you to bear especia
, as 'reguurilī to sucasă m do hazardous and oo difficult a feat. Itismy design
activity
to show you first , that the thing might possibly have been accomplished :-but , secondly
and chiefly Iwish to impress upon your understanding the very extraordinary we al .
most matematūral charcular of that agility wluch wnéd hanc accomplished it.
say, no cloubt , using the language of the law , that to make out mycase Ishould
rather you
undervalio ,then msist upon a full estiination of the activity required withis matter,
ma be the practice in law, but it is not the usage of reason . My ultimate object is un
This y only
the truck . My inmldrate purpose is to lead youи . to place in juxta-position that very
unual actiiritinq which Ihave just spoken wortelst that very penilur shrill(or harsh )and une.
qual vrice,aboutwhohas hace notwo persous would be found to agree , and inwhose ut
lerance no
n
syllabitatio could be detectach .al
At niese words a vague and halj.ponu conception of the meaning o dupin plittel
wwe
mind . Iseemed tobe upon the verge of comprehension ,without power to compre
hend
my
- as men ,at times , find themselves upon the brink brance
% remem twithou being
able,in the end , to remember . My friend went on with his discourse gurit had now
assumed with the churusting Auck .
You will rue", he said," That Ihave shifteel the question from the mode of egress
of aquess ingress . Itwas my design to convey the
the idea both were effected in the same mun -
idea that bottimere
ner, at the same point . Let us now revert in fancy to the interior o the rvom • Let us our -
vey the appearances here . The drawers of the burean , it is sund , had been rifled , although many
articles or apparel still
and noumanned
more ., within themto .know
How are we The conclusion here is absurdi.
that the articles found in Ictheisadrawers
meie ques;
- a very silly one -
were 'not all these dauwers had originally contained ? Maciamé d'Ispanaye mid her daughi
lived an exceedingly retired life saw no company seldom went out . had little use for
numerous charges o habulimint. Those foruci were at least of us good quality as any likely
to be possessed by liese ladies. Ifa thee's had taken any, why aiahe nor tähe li festa
why chat he not take all ? In a word why did he abandone four thousand francs in gold
to encumber hinsely with a bundle o linen ? The gold wiis abundosud · Nearly the
whole sum mentioneco by Monsum Mignand , the banke ,was discovered ,w bago, upon .
the floor . I wish you tirefore to ducand from you. Mirughli the blundering iilea gʻnuoliul
which boas leise erigendereck ri the brani's 8 the police by that portion g the evidence which
speaks of money delivered at Mie door q Hie house. Corinduces ten tiles as remarkable
as thes the delivery q tie money, 'and murder committed wrthrine Hree days upon the
party recurry it ) haguen to exuchi and all of us every bestto our lives withiritatt
attracting lulu

momentary, notice Goudences is general are great stumbling-blocks ni tie hie

way ,
and care less
liat class o Hunkers who have been célucalic lo know nothing hurnun Cherry
q probabilities - that theory towhich the most glorious objecti iz reseauch are üi
Labled from the most glorious g, illiwlialion . hi ma present nótance, hud the gold heen
gone,la fuer og atIt world
a corncidence , threebeen
deliveryhave dayscorroboraleve
before wereke have formedmowie
Hüs ilea sonething morethin
. But ,under
q 8
motive of this out
The real circunstances of the case , if we are to suppose gold antheidiot
rage , we nupt also visuguse the perpetralór po rucilláling as to have
abandoned his gold and his notivé togethie.
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" Keeping steadily i mind the points to which Ihave hawnyour attentunt - blicke
peculian voice , that unusual agility, and that starthing absence 8 motive
singularly atrocious as this let us glance at the butchery itself Eutelery ti
. Here is a woman sirangle?
to death by manual shength ,and thrust upachimney headdownwards.Ordinam assós
suis employ no such modes of murder as this .Least of all do they this dispose of the murdered .
fine the manner of thinsting the corpse upthe chimmey, you will admit that therewas something
exusely outie – something altogethan wireconciliable with an common nomino
action , even when we suppose the actors the most depraved of men . Think , to what mush
have been the degree of that strength which could have thrust the body up such an aper
ture so forcibly that the united vigor of several persons was found barely sufficient to chang
it down ! Turn now to other indications of the employment of a vigor moss niarvelloud, oi
astotoond were Huch hessés - very Klick tresses Ruman hair . There
the sacking he
og of grey
the heatom
from been
had outn bytwethentyroots
d eve or the greatsawforcethe necessary
togetherof .theYou
. ityYouhaiarersaware in tearing this
locks in question aswell as
myself . Then wots (a hodioussght!) were clotted with fragments of the flesh of the scalp hours
muneEken bythe procijcomomonch had been ecerlec in uprooting perhoko a million
at a time . The throat q the old lady was not merely art , but the head absolutely revered from
the body . The instrument was a mere razon . Here agams we have widence of that vastress.
of strength upon which Iwould fix your attention . Iwish you also to look , and to look
steadily as the brutal ferocity of these deeds. Of the buises upon the body of Madame
L'Espanaye Ido not speak . Monsieur Dumas, and hisworthy wadjutor Monsieur
Etienne , have pronounced that they were wiflicted by some obtuvē vistrument; anck to for
there gentlemen are very went the office nisumentwas ciarly the stonepavement
in the yard ,upon which the victor had fallen from the window which looked in upon
the bed . This idea however simple it may now seem , escaped the police for the same
reason that the breadth of the shutters escaped them because by the affair o the
nails ,then perceptions had been hermetically sealed against the possibility of the
at all .
n been opened
windows having ever
Vj now , we aditio to all these things, you have properly reflectia upon the odd disorster
of the chamber , we have gone is far as to combine the incus of a strength superhuman , an
hossor
agility astounding ferocity brutal , a butchery without motive , a grotes querie
absolutely abin from humanity , and a voice foreign in tone to the cars, man of
nations , and devoid of all district on nitelligibikepyllabifuatin . While result hem , heus
ensued ?J., what impression
Shuud dered have
as Dupin I made
ashed rue lheupon your
questio faney
n . üa ? an , I said , "has done this
maem
deed - some raving maniae escaped from a negerbouring Maison de sauté."
w forsome respičty ; he replied , “ your idea is not wirelevant . But the voices %
mannen

even in their wildess paroxysms , are neuer a form to tally with that peenliai voice
however inco .
heard upon the stais . Madmen are % some nation , and then language ,
herent in itswords , has always the coherence of syllabification . Besiles the hai
a madman w nos such han er I noso bola ni my hand . I disentangles this little
Suftfrom among the tressesremaining upon the head og Madame' l'Espanaye. Zell me
what you can make 8 it .
.". Food God," I suid , completely unuenved ,"this hair is most unusual this is no human
hair " decide upon this point , I wish you
I have not asserted that it was saidhe “ but, before ua
16 Glance yanayos upon the little sketch I have here traced upon this paper . It is a fae-simile
drawing of what has been described in one portion of the testimony as' dark bruises and deep
indenbations of finger-nails ' upon . the throut & Mademoiselle d'Espanaye , and in another (by
elleneurs dumas and Etienne) es ' a series g laved spoli evidouble the nipression of fu .
gerol
" You will perceive " continued my friend ," spreading out the paper upon the table before
no -
- " you will perceive that this drawing gives the idea of a firm and fixed hold . There
Klikningapparent. Each fujo hasretained -pomnibly until the death o the vietina
U no
the fecuful grasp bywhich it originally imbedded itself . attempt now to place all your frie
gers at one and the same time in the impressions you see them .
I made the ultimpl in vacii .
We are possibly nos guirig itis matter a fui trail "he said . “'he paper is spread out
upon a plane surface ;but the human tro at is cylindrical . Here is a billet ofwood the cira
cumperence of which is about that of the throut , torup the drawing around it , and try the
4

experiImeutºa gami
did io; but la difficulty was even more obvious than before .* This“, I said " is the mock.
ho fuuman hand ."
Assuredly it is not ,"uplied Supin = read now Hüspassage from Cavriri
It was a minute anatomical and yenually desoriptive account the large
fulvous tanrny Orraugoutang , the East Indian Polands.Thegegantasiue, theprodi
circunstan
agitalūng
ensued
whih
under ces

and actually
^But

Geres saugth the wild ferocity, and the unitative propertiis a these mammalı are 14
large
the
cistaptared

Jufficiently well kuwon lo ale . Iuudustood liefule hvrter of the murder al -ouce .
never
have
could

" the deseruptión y hi digels " gard I," as I made au cud q uaduz,is a exact accord.
restill
as
.Ihe
it

ance could
lioned wilt thisdrawing.
have impúsredIseitsethat noammal butyouenQuanq.ou
indentalioris as themog . Unclass
have tracedtong us lifthere me .
of yellow
han is identical in character with thest of the beast of Cuvés . But I cannot possibly cons
prebend the particalors of Weć
thisu forgleeful mystery. Besides,there were two vores heard

shipping
interest
devoted
in contention , and one % uçuestionably the brice g Feuchanan .
wa

baper
and
“ Inue ;and you will remmen an emession altributed almost un aniinasty by the

the
to
evidence, to this voice - the expression mon dien ! This , under the circumstances, has
heenjuistty characterired by one of the witnesses as an expression of remonstranice or ex
postulation . Upon there twowords,there fore , I have nianily built my hopes of a full
solution 8 te zilele . Q Fencluau' wa's Cognizant g Hie muder . It is possible - it is
indeed for mo re than probable that hewas innocent of all participation in the bloody
more

sailors
much
transactions which took place . The ourang bulong 'may have cocorped from huir. ke

sought
mayhave traced it to this chamber, Iwill not pursue there quesses - for I have no
red

)by
are ba
ugásis call them more than suive iki shades y reflectire ufun which they
are scorceky rufficcit depth 6 be appreciable sy'ný mnow jukellut , and muce Icould
not protect to make them witelligible to the underorandring % another than myself .
we will call them quesses Tanid
, speak q thai as such.fi reuchman cis question be
unded , as I suppose , unocent of the atrocity , this advertisement ,which I left lash night
upon our return home , at the office of Le Moncle ! will Bruig hair to om residence . "
Л
he banded me a papers and g read thus
Caught Found in the Bors de Boulogne ,early in the mornoto ing of the - insh (the morning
of the murder ) a very large lawry, colored orsaug-outauz Bosuese specis. The riones
whois ascertarried to be a sailor belonging to a Maltese vessel ) muy have the animal a -
gain upon identifying it sutisfactority and paying a fen charges apising from
to capture and Keepung. Call at fo - Mue " Faubourg St Germain - antrašume .
11
" How was it possible,"I ashed "that you should know the man to be a sailor, aud be .
lougon ; 6 a telleãe vessel !! "
"I am not sure on it . Here, howwer , is a tal puce
I do not kuww it ", soud Dupine. Geen
of ribbon ,which has cordently, from its form and from its greasy appearance , er
used in tizing the hair in thone long queues of which sailors are so foud . Moreov ,
His kuok is me which few besicer reitors cau tie, and is peculiać 6 the Malleze .
Ipacked this rubbon up at the foot of the lightning -rod , It could not have belongect to
ction from Ituis ub .
ulter y hie decearcă'. Now
en , if , află all, I am úcornung in my uedu
bon , tur ti henchm wes « sailor . belonguis lo a Mallere vessel , still I can
have done uo harm ni statuis what I did in the advertisement . If Iam cin
error he will merely suppose that have been misled by some circumstance to
which he will not take the trouble to inquie . But if I am right - a great pouit
Gogurzaut q the murder , although not guilty, tie neuchman will na -
turally hesitate about replying to the advertisement - about demanding the ourang
Oulaing. He will reason Thãs I am uinocent"; Jam poor ; my ouring,outaiq is a great
value - to one in my circumstances a fortune of itrelf -why should I lose huntthrough
iale apprehensions , cauger ? Here it is within my grass . It was found in the Bor's de
Moulogíidue -ubta vaulstdist ance from ltie scene g maut butchery : How can it ever the
Suspec Hia a br e ast should have done Wie deed ? ' The police are at faulkr
be
they hove failol to prveure the Hightest clue . Should Wiey wen lace Itie anual ,
it would be onuupacc ibletto prove me Cogucarautg lle murder ,or to implicate
ossoun we

if that coguiran . above all . I am known . The adverliser

disiq
in quilualis
t me as the posse ssor of the beash . Iam not sure to what extent his
know ledg e may extend . Should I avoice clamig aproperty y do sucha palue ,
which it is known that I possess , I will under the cuscisali'at leverer liable
6 suspicion . It is not my policy to attract attention to the beast. Iwrite ausur
the advertisement - ger Thé ouraug.oubang, and keep harina clore urtie tür
matter hos blown over
At this moment we heard a step upon sthe stairs .
reudy , said Supin ,'with yourpistol , boud neitta use them nor thow than
“" Be
until af a signal from mység ."
 The front door of the house had been left open , and the visiter hand entered without 16
reniging orhapping , and advanced several steps upon the staircase . Now, howener ,he
seemed to hesitate . Iresenllywe heard hin descending . Dupinwas moring quickly 6
the door whenwe again heard bin arning up . He did not turn bach a recond time ,
but stepped up quickly and rapped at the door y au chamber .
" Game in, said Dupin , in a cheerful and hearty tone .
The visitar euteed .'Hewres a Ocilir ,evidendy -'a tull, olent,and musculau
u - looking
man with a certain care devil expression of conntenance not altogether unprepossessing .
His face gready sunburnt ,was more than half hidden by aworld 8 whisker and mus.
tache . He hadwith a luge oaken endgel , but appeared to be otherwise unarmed . the
brused awkw y , and bade as " good evening in rench accents which although
zomendutardlNeufchat -ish ,were still deff
el isid of
iciently icative a Parisin origin
" Sit down , my friend ", sand Dupin ." I suppose you have calls about the curcang .
Onlang. Upon myword , Ialmore anvy you the possession of him - a remarkably frie,
and no doubt a very valuable animal ! How old do you support him me to he ? " lecable
A Mau rehaved bo
o so ni
the sailor drew a long breasts,with the air %
buden ,and then replied ,in an assured tone old .
Have y"ouIhave
got hinoway celling --butbe cant be more than four or five years
n here ?of telling
" Oh no-we had no conveniences for keeping him here. He is at a lienz stable
in the Rue Duburung , gestby . Zou can get him in the morning. o curse you are
piepared to identify the property. "
" To be ame Iam , sii "
"I shall be sorry to partyouwithshould
hisi",
be atsaidall Dupin . ble for nothing sie ," said the
this trou
" I don't mean theat.
man . Couldn't expect it . am verywilling to pay a reward for the finding of the
annial is to sing wward in reason .
any that is all very fair to be sure . Let me Hunk ! what
" Well"thatreplied my friend
this you shall
reward ought I to have . Oh ! - Iwill tell you . Myreward shall be the
give me all the information in your power about that affair in Rue Jeseniai Morgue
• Duper said there lash words in a very low love, and very quietty. Just as
quietly,two, he walked towards the door , locked it,and put the key in hur pochet .
the then drew as pistol from this events and placed it ,wittout the least
flurry, upon the table .
le
The scilir's face flushed up with an angovernab tide of evenison . He
started to his feet and grasped his endgel , but the next moment he fell bach
nito his seat rembling conventsively, and with a countenance as colorless as
that of death itself. He spoke not a single word . I pitich min from the bottom of my heart .

My friend ", said Dupin in a kind tone ," you are alarning yourself thie
ed ! the mean you no varm whatever I pledge you
necenarily - you are indeand .
Frencluna , Mat we uitend you
honor of a gentleman , q a
hergestie maleknow Miakyonare inocento tualioitis in Kü AneIniciargue
It will not do , however ,to deny that you are in some measure implicated
in them . Trunowhat Thame
Ihave already said you must know that coul d never
had means of infornatio about this matter means of which
n you
could .
have cheaned . Now the thing stands thus you have done nothingwhich you
have avoided nothing contamly which rinders you nepable . You were not even quilty
offrobbery,when you might have robbed write impunity. you have nothing to conceal .
no reason for concedement , on the other hand , you are bound by every prin .
You have
aple ogAunor to compers are theb zun knoro.An inwarruan is noco imprisonal ,
charged with that crime ofwhich you you . can ponit out the perpetrator . "
The Sailor hard rareied 'hipicence ý muid ni a great measure atle depin
"ich there words; but his orijinal boldness of bearning was all gone .
So help he Good ," said he after a brief panse , Iwill tell you all that I know
yo u
wh this affair;– but I do not expect you to believe one hay that I say – Iwred
- foot unced Idich . Sull , I au muviuk , and Iwil mehe'a clean
est Iif
do not for itto."follow the man in the aicinotaurul mmalve
I dieprotege uruich he now de -
tailed . Waar ha Hared write mi submandate this The back laaly made a vvy ase 6 tūLudism
Arshipelago . A poulizobile presurslo andpassed nito ka nitrir upon au aurin
pleasure . Friesce and a companwn huid ccptured the ourans Ourang. Wij ampanuri
 dying the aninial fell into his own exclusive possession after great trouble, 16 OC
casi oned by the nitractable ferocity of his captive during the home voyage , he at length
Lucceeded lodging hunt safely at his own residence in garis ,where , not to attrach
towards hinise of the unpleasant cunority of his neighbours, he kept it carefully secluded,
until such time as it should recover from a wound in
ike foot receive furu a splin
ter on board thip . His ultimate design was to sell it .
Returning home from some soulons frolic on the night , or rather in the morning ,
of brthe murder , he found his prisiner occupying his own bed -wore, intowhich he had
oken from a closet adjoinig ,where he had been , as it was thought , recruely con

fined . The beast , rasor in hand , and fully Cathered ,was sitting before a Woking
glass, attempting the operation of sharing , in which he had no doubt previouslywatched
his master through the key hole of the closet . Terrified at the sight of sodangerous a
weapon in possession of an animal 20 ferocivics , and to well able to use it , the man ,
fer serue moments, was at a loss what to do. he had been accustomed , however
to quiet the creature , even in its percent moods by the useof a strongwasoner
swhop ,
and to this he now resorted . Upon sight of it the aurang- Outung sprang at once
through the door of the chamber , down the stairs, and thence , through a window
infortunately open , into the street .
The Fenchman
Iraulty głotning followed
to look back ,in dispari-
and gesticulate thepurruer
of his ape , waror otill ite
,until min hand
Cuit, had
becadia
nearly come up with him . He then again made off . In this manner the chase
continued for a long time . The theats were profoundly quiet , as it was nearly three
o'clock in the morning . hi passing down an alley in the rear of the Rue Trianon
the thefugitives attention
town -lamps) was arrested
glearning from the byopenжa light ( the only once apparent except thore
wrridow z cadamed'Esporage's
chamber , in the fourth story of her house . Rushing to the building he perceived
the lightrung - rod , clambered up with inconceivable agility, grassed the shelter ,
which was thrown fully buck aganist the wall , and by its means, surung
hinsaelfminudire
tectly
upon
. Me thewas
shutter headkick
- boun d ofagainthe bybedthe.areTheaswhohe leentere
ed open beat did not veu .
d the room
py
The sailor, in the meantime ,was both rejurced and perplexed . He had strong
hopes of now re -capturing the ape as it wuld scarcely escape from the trup
,where onhassaster
roddown
neto which it had ventured , exceptasbyitthecame and
hand
is .
there
treept hesini itnight be intercepted as he the other
wees much cause for anxiety as to what the brute night do in the house . This
Cutir Ylection urgeet nie man elementetdiesem bredbrotinus-nod ii ascended without
difficulty iespecially by a sailor ; but,when he had arrived as high as the window
which lay for to his left , his career was oopped ; – the most that he could accom
plish was to reach over to as to obrani aglimpse of the interior of the room . at
this glimpse he nearly fell from his hold in horror through excess of horror . Now it
wut that there hideous shricks arose upon the night which had startled from slumber
the nismates of the Aue Trianon . Madame d'Espanage and her daughter , habited
their night ‫ ۔‬clothes , had apparently been occupied mi arrangring some papers in
the cron - chest already mentioned ,which had been wheeled into the middle q the
won . It- was open , and its content lay beside it on the floor. Their backs must
have been towards the window ; and,by the true clapsinng between the screanus and
it seems
the ingressngof tothe ofapethe, shulte probable that he was not immediately perceived .
r they would naturally have attributed to thewroid .
The flappi
Ar the sailor looked in ite gigantic baroč hack devred Mudorue . 'Espan .
aze by the hair (which hack was loose ,as she had been combing it ) and was
fleurishing the razor about her face , in imitation of the mosions ya barber .
The daughter luy prostrate and moninless & she had sworned . The screams
and struggles of the old lady (duringwhich the hair was worn your her head )
had purposes of the Ourang - Outang
into ite
thoseiffect oj changing
of ungovernab le the probably
wrath withpacific
one determined sweep of his muscular
are he nearly severed her head from her body. The sight of blood enflamed
his anger into ploreury . Grashing his teethded , and flushing fire from his eyes , he
Glen
upor the body of the girl , and ribed his fearful talous in her throat
wtaming geconte untiéble experien . Hij wandering and wild glances wolverted fele
upové to the head the bed , which
ab this moment 8
over those g kis master , glared
ernibleinst
in horror, were just disc,was They fur
. antl y of the beast ,who nodoubt bore still in
converted into dread . Couscous of having
mind the chreached whip
dewervel punishmatike Luned dicerias y conceuluis his bováky Leeds, and shifted
 about the chamber in an apparent agony of nervous agitation , throwing down . 17
and breaking the furniture as he moved , and dragging the bed from the bed
stead . he conclusion , he sured first the corpse of the daughter , and trust it up
the channey as it was found , then that of the wed lady ,with which he rushed
to the window precipitating it imediately therefrom .
As the ape approached him with this mutilated burden , the sailor shrank
aghast to the rod , and , rather gliding than clambering down it , hurried at
ona home dreading the consequences the butchery
of , and gladly abandoning
in his terror, all solicitude about the fate of the durang.curang . the words
heard bythe party upon the stancuse were the trenchman's exclamations of horror
and afforiglet , commingled with the fendish jabberings of the brute .
Ihave scarcely anytening to add. The cuanuge culing must have es.
capect for the chamber by the rod , just before the breaking of the down. The
must have closed the window as he passed through it . Hewas subsequenity
caught by the owner himself who obranied for hun a very large sum at the
Jardin des Plantes. Le mon was instantly released , upon our narration of
the circumstances (with some comments from Dupin ) at the bureau of the chef
de police . Yus functionary , however well disposed to my friend , cared nos
altogether conceal his chagrin at the turn which affairs had taken , and
wa fain to niclulge in a sarcasm or two in regald to the propriety of
every person minding his own business .
Let bin talk " said Dupuis ,who had not tõright it necessary to reply.
Les huine discourse; it will ease his conscience . Jam satippuid write having
castle. . It Inis truth
him in in hishisownwisdom
defeatedstamen , he is too cunning to be acute . There
all head and no body
ü no like the pictures
the Eoddess Lavernd - or at least as heard and shorneders like a coclfish .
But he is a good fellow , after all . I like him especially for one master stroke
canestses.bywhi
7poss ch he has attwhich
s mean the
t reputation for ingenuity which he
ained hethahas
way de nier ce qui est et d'erpli
quer ce qui n'est pasi
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an

Mers. Lea - Blurichard, 29683

Senllumeri,
I wish to publish a new collect

con of my prose Jules with some such title as this

" The Prime Jules q ódgar 19. Fre, Incheding The Murders in the Rue
Morgue". The Descent into the Mulström ",and will his lalispricht , willa
a second the Grotesque unit Arabesque
eclition g the " Jules o엉

The lates preces"will be right in number , making the entire

collection thirty -stereo which would occupy two thick novel
volumes.
I am anxious thatyou ferina Should contine 56
be my publishers , and , if you would be willing to bring out
the book , I should be glad to acceph the termswhich you
allowed me before that is _ you receive all profets , and allow
me wenty copies for distribution to friends.
Will zou be kernid enough to give me an early
reply to this letter , and believe me
Yoursvergrego
APOL
Sulaukesi como
Coffee Graham'sallaguzine .
A August . 13./41.
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