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

lie to receive thern.-Edgar Allan Poe.
marks, and thereLWas@ no discoloration
Of the cellular tissue as in cases of the
drowned. Neither was any water found
in the lungs and it did not take the
coroner long to decide that murder had
b bruises sot that could have caused Death.
The clothes were submitted to her
mother, who identified them as those
worn by Marie the day she disappeared.
The body was then buried without be-
ing seen by the mother. 49, 20,
The Scene Of the Crime.
| A few days later new light was
cry of the place Of the murder. Two
boys, sons Of a woman who kept a re-
freshment pavilion at the park, found
some of the murdered girls clothes.
Says Poe: "Within the thicket were |
three or four large stones, forming a
kind of seat with a back and footstool
coat; on the second a silk scarf: A
parasol, gloves and pocket handkerchief
bore the name of Marie. Roget. Frag
ments OF dress were discovered on the
trampled, the brushes broken and there
was every evidence Of a struggle. Be-
tween the thicket and the river the
fences were found taken down and the
ground bore evidence. Of some heavy
burden having been dragged over it. u
The police took up the clues thus af-
forded, but go. where they would they
terry: The girl s, employer was suspect
ed, but he easily proved his innocence.
Thugs thought to- have committed the
crime were arrested, but no evidence
that would stand the test of the courts
was obtained. Newspapers discussed
than did the police. Finally in Novem-
Der of that year all the newspapers
Ewere sent! to- Poi. with a; request that
he solve the myssbeFFy:1t ~...,.--. .~..
p. sPoe's Deductions. 3.
The clippings I'd (which, he gave par
r ticular attention Nere those telling. of
months before the murder; of the re-
freshment stand proprietor S seeing Ma
RE with mplexioned sailor on
the afternoon of her disappearance and
! hearing screams later in the evening.
+ Another article told Of the finding Of
< a beat floating without rudder the
: morning after the disappearance. The
boat was taken to a private dock by
r the. finder, but the next night it was
q stolen. Still another paper advanced
q the suicide theory, saying that the girl
+ did not die on the day of her disap:
! pearance because the body was floating
four days later. She must have killed
!. body, the writer claimed.
h Poe first showed the folly Of this
Il statement by proving that a body does
h not float at any set time after death
o IF death were caused by strangulation
+ Or by VIOLENCE 2 &c; and the body then n
e sink. Still less would be the probable
- ity of its sinking if after death a
+. strong cord had been tied about the
h neck.
e Thus getting clear Of any puzzle that
y might arise over the date of the muir
der, he set to work on the commission
of the crime itself.
V said he would discard the interior
= points Of the tragedy at first anc
70 study the outskirts or collateral events
ID surrounding the case. He would con
~ slider only those points that differed
% from the circumstances attending othe1
:, murders. The most peculiar points
% would be the most valuable.
~ 1t would be folly, he said, to suppose
ID that her former elopement with the ma
n val officer had nothing to do with the
~ had eloped with her once would at
e tempt It again. Altho there was NJ
h direct proof that there was an: elope
-. - ment there were indications that there
70 was frustrated design.
er What the Ground Showed.
ID He first established the fact tina
A there was but one murderer. Tn
m ground showed that a body had beer
1e dragged, over it and the fence had beel
IN taken down to get the body thru. Ha
I'd there been a gang as suggested by tn
ly police the body would have been cal
h. ried and lifted over the fence, as tina
er for several persons. The band Of clot
tied about the victim 8 waist had bee
. placed there at first in an attempt t
carry the body, but this being too dit
fcult the murderer decided to drag tn
g. body and tore off another strip Of tn
" the body. The body could be dragge
ne At this point he connected the sailo
he with the crime. Both knots were sal
~ ors' knots. Added to that the diffel
ence in time between the first .eloP2'
murder was about the time occupied b
a. man-of-war on a regular cruise. Prol
ably prevented from carrying out b
plans by the departure Of his ship
/ the first case he made the second a
tempt Immediately on his return.
h | LNlU0uCO W COlIODOIdG0 bu0 eIOp
nv nv ment theory was the fact that Mar
~ ~ told her mother the morning Of h,
~ disappearance that she was going |
nv nv the country. She told her other frient
l. also, that there might be no inquiry
. to her whereabouts. She then met h
friend as arranged and proceeded
the amusement park, where they we
seen by the stand-keeper. They we
seen to walk off toward the woods al
it was here that the clothes were foul
murder, according to this line Of re
soning, was evidently not premedits
ed; as it occurred near a public hig
way and on a spot visited by MAJ
persons every day. The stone seat W
a well -known spot in the park. II
eed the murder been premeditated, sa
cry Poe, some place nearer the river a
farther from the road would have be
gu selected.
!. When the body Of the murdered 9
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