Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-02-04

remcncs,s Thu affair which
caused so muc; ink TO flow 7
On the 25tt ot October. 1892.
the io.0wipS Dots appeared in the lat
est edition OF the Temps
"A frightful crime has beer commit
ted at the Chateau du Glandiet. on the
border Of the forest OF Sainto Gene
We've. abov- Fpinay. Orge. at the
house Of Professor Stangerson. In tho
night, while the master was working
in his laboratory. an attempt was made
to assassiuate Mile Stargerson. who
was sleeping in the yellow room a
chamber adjoining this laboratory.
The doctors do not answer for the life
Of Mile Stangerson.'
The i'm .ressioc made on Paris by
this news may be easily imagined. Al
ready at that time the learned world
was deeply interested in the Ia bors OF
Professor StangerSon and his dauGh-
ter These labors-the first that were
attempted in autographs served to
open the way for NJ. and Nine. Curie
to the discovery of radum. 1t was
expected the professor would shortly
read to the Academy of Sciences Il sen
sational paper on his new theory, the
dissertation Of matter. Il theory dcs
tined to overthrow from its base the
whole Of official science. which based
itself on the principle of the conserva-
ton of energy.
On the following day the newspapers
We're full of the tragedy. The Matin
published the following article entitled
"A Supernatural Crime
These are the only details wrote
the anonymous writer in the Matin,
I'VE have been able to obtain concern
ing the crime Of the Chateau du Clan
dier. Tho state If despair in which
Professor Stangerson is plunged and
the impossibiljt7 Of getting any infor-
nation fror the lips OF the victim
have rendered our investigators and
those Of justice so dhicu,' that AT
present we cannot form the least ide;
of what has passed in the yellow roolr
in which Mile. Stangersor. in heZ nign
dress. was found lying on the floor in
the agones Of death We have al least
been able TO interview Daddy Jacques,
Z
servant in the Stangerson family
Daddy Jacques entered the yellow
room NJ the same time as the profess
sor, This chamhe! adjoins the lab0.
rHtcry. Laboratory and yelloy room
are in pavilion ut the end OF the
park. about thousand feet from the
chateau
ut WAS half pas, - a! night this
honest ole man told US. and ! was in
the laboratory, where N, S,angcrson
WIS sti.i working, wher the thing hap.
pened | had been cleaning and put.
ting instruments in order all the even
ing and wts waiting fo- NJ. Stangerson
TO 80 to bed. Nile Stangerson had
worked with her father up to midnight.
When tho twelve strokes of midnight
had been sounded by the cuckoo clock
In the laboratory She ross kissed NJ.
Stangegson and babe him good night.
TO Lac che said Good night, Daddy
Jacques" as she passed into the vel
low Psom. We heard her lock the
door and shoot the bolt, SO that I
could not help laughing and said to
moosieur: There's mademoselle don
bic licking herself in. She must be
afraid Of "the Bete du Bon Dieu."
"'Monsieur did not even hear me, be
was so deeply absorbed in what he
was doing. Just then we heard the
distant mia wing Of cat. rs that
going to keep us awake all night" |
said to myself for / must tell you
monsieur, that, to the end Of October
live In an attic Of the pavilion over
the yellow room, so that madcmOisclle
Sloud not be left alone through the
night in the lonely park. 1t was the
fancy OF mademoiselle to spend the
fine weather I'm the pavilion. No doubt
she found 1t more cheerful than the
chateau and, for the four years it had
been built she had never failed to
lake up her lodging there In tho spring
With the return Of winter mademoi
selle returns TO the chateau, for there
10 no fireplace In the yellow room.
1--WE were staying in the pavil
Ion then-M. Stangerson and I. We
made no noise. He was seated at his
desk. As for me, was sitting on 6
chair, having finished my work and
looking at him, said to myself
What man! What intelligence
What knowledge" attach impor
lance to the fact that we made M
noise; for, because OF that, the ASSASSIN
certainly thought that we had left the
place. And, suddenly. while the cuckoo
was sounding the half after midnight
n desperate clam0r broke out in thu
yellow room. 1t was the voice Of
madcmotselle, crying "Murder-mur
der-help" Immediately afterwart
revolver shots rang out. and there wal