Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-05
The story Of the Saratoga Trunk,

The Story Of the Saratoga Trunk.
DID MAXWELL GET AN IDEA FROM ROBERT
LOUIS sTEyENsON's WEIRD STORY?
The st. Louis Gtote-Democrut draws attention
to Robert Louis Slevenson's "5tory oil the Physi-
clan and the Saratoga Trunk" aprop,s OF the
Naxweil-Preiler Case. The tale deals with a
young man who was dOue TO death in a strange
room at a hotel, occupied 10y one Silas Scudda-
more, and goes on to describe the scene when
Siias and DIR. Mai alone with the BODY
and seekin. to CONCEAL the evidences vi the
crime. Ii is there that the following pass... q
Seuddaniore:
"four case is desperate upon that side. and
for the narrow eye o. the authorities you are in
falliuly tue guilty person."
He turned toward the bed and proceeded TO
examine the corpse.
Quite dead, he murmured: Eyes, as 1 had
supp The packets empty. Yes, and the
maine cut OH of the shirt. | noted a little while
ago that you have there In the corner one of
tbs &c monstrous constructions which your lel.
.ow-conntr, men carry with them into all quar-
ters of the giobe-i. a word, "A Saratoga trunk
Untii this moment have never been able u
conceive the utility OF these erections, but now
begin TO have gllinmer. Que thing see
piAi"iy-the object vi such box Is ~ contain
human body"
Tue Saratoga trunk WAS soon Quilted Of its con.
tents, which made = cOnsiderab ls litter upon
the noos. and then-SiIas taking the heels and
the doctor supporting The siIoulders-Lhe body
vi the murdered man was carried from the bed
ana after soiue dimcuity doubled UP and In
serted whole inio The empty Lox. With AN eff
tort Oh tie part oI Dol Ii Tue LID was forced down
upon TIL unusual baggage aud the trunk vas
locked aud cortied.
Now, said the doctor, "the first step has
been taken On tue way To your deiiverance T,,-
MORROW, or rather to-day, 1t must te your task
10 ALA. the suspicious vi the porter pay ing uim
ali that you owe.
The story theu proceeds to describe the hor-
ror Oh oiias, aoiie In hotel with the dead man
ia n trunk, aud says:
- sunk own 10 diuner about Z ut night;
ou' Tue Seiinw crnee room appalled, him, the
eyes vi iIe other diners seeIneI To rest on, hl,
Win suspicion, ANA his miud remained uD
Stairs wills the Saratoga trunk When The
waiter Came 10 offer him his cheese hi, nerve,
We e already 40 much OH edge tiut he le,,ped
hall Way out oI his chair and up.At the re-
ii..lhdcr oil IA pint oil ale upon The tsbi, cloth -
"in reading this, one "a see Ma xweii mrtiye-
~ shipping Into the S',uiicrn ordinary ON that
I'tieiui SUNDAY night. king wildly to the
waller, Abingdon, aud hu.s.ly nerv0usiy push
ttis away the vine tIe drink. IL i, An
almost perfect com paton picture The siuou
IA paraiici is concluded in the dc,cyiuti,u
al the vigil IN The hotel rom that uip nj the
body oil the murdered man IN the trunK in "A
corner.
ihcre all night long, prey TO the most ter.
ribie iniaginltibns, lac watched beside the fatal
ooA III U. dead nesii. Midnight has s,uu,,,.,I
s"nie EIue wien, impeiied by uneasy sus-
PIGEONS, he opened his bedroom door and peereu
Inlo tue passage. IL MAS dinly lignteu by !,
single Jet ga gas, aud some distance oil ue t,.r-
ceiSea In~n In the cosiuhie u hotel under
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