The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25

If the saying that history repeats it.
neapolis deepest murder mysteries, the
solved. by following out the line Of
reasoning used by Edgar Allan Poe in
his "Mystery of Marie Roget which
was successful solution Of the murder
of Mary Rogers in New York in is42.
PIE Tesss %d gcxn f af
readers of current literature at that
time, was asked to unravel the mys-
terry which had for months baffled the
New York police. Poe was at his home
in Virginia at the time, and his only
evidence was furnished by newspaper
accounts Of the crime. He accordingly
solved the mystery in detective story
The girl was called Marie Roget in
stead of Mary Rogers and the scene
was laid in Paris instead of New York.
So thoroly did Poe 60 into the depths
of the case that the New York police
were ordered to work out his theory.
| They did so, and two arrests were made.
| These two persons confessed to com
plicity in the crime and their story
agreed in every detail with the theory
established by the writer.
The murder Of Mary Rogers and Of
Ruth Teachout are parallel even to the
| minute details.
| The Teachout Tragedy.
| Ruth Teachout left her home on the
morning Of June 26, with the intention
of going to the Minnesota Business col
lege. She arrived there shortly after
10 clock and wrote a letter to a
friend. She was never seen alive again
by anyone who was willing to say so to
the police.
taken a trip to Illinois with her lover
and scandal grew out of the incident
This man, however, was completely ex
onerated, both by the police and the
coroner. But information was obtained
by persons investigating the case, that
she had been seen several times with 9
soldier Of the United States army. Who
he was and what his relations with the
murdered girl were, the police never
learned.
The evening Of her disappearance he1
parents notified the police and three
days after this her dead body was tax
en- from the river just above st. Paul
About her neck was knotted rlbbo1
which was imbedded in the flesh. i
had been roughly torn from the bacl
of her shirtwaist where it was fas
torn, evidently in a struggle, and he
| body was covered with bruises, alth
| none of them were thought to hav
been the cause Of death. The verdic
Of the coroner's jury, was that the gi1
had been strangfed by an unknowl
person.
| There was no water in the lungs
and the autopsy showed that dealt
had been caused by isStrangulation an
: not by drowning. There was niue
discussion because the body foated s
quickly after death and this was neye
L I,
police of St. Paul did not work on tn
case because it was out of their juris
diction and the Minneapolis police aft
er few days. work decided that Rut
Teachout committed suicide. Privat
detectives took up the work but notl
ing ever came Of their Investigations.
Mystery of ''Marie Roget
In the famous New York case Mar
Rogers was the clerk in a hotel ciga
stand. She lived with her mother som
distance from the business center an
was rarely away from home when sh
was not at work Prior to her fgurin
" in the great mystery, she had once di
appeared from her home, and the polio
were just on the verge OF making 81
rious Investigations when she -returne
home. The matter was hushed up an
the story given out that she had spe1
the last week at the home Of relativ
in the country.
Her friends, therefore, were not muc
surprised when five months afterwa1
she again disappeared. The police wei
10th to take up the case, expecting n
return at any time: -Four days att
her disappearance, however, her des
body was found floating in the river.
large piece of her skirt had been to-
off and tied about the body at II
waist. Another smaller piece had bee
tightly bound about the neck ar
drawn deeply into the flesh. The boo
was covered with bruises and the clot
ing was torn in several places; Abo'