The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-03-18

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crime he lad not been at I'll" bl"idirr
Remember that Nile. Stausct>ou lost
her rcticule containing the ket WIN
the brass head white she was in biz
company. From that day TO tn" even
ing at the I,lySec thc Sarb"nnc pro
fessor and Nile. Stln2erson did l"'
see one another. bat they may have"
written to each other. Mile. Stan""r
son went to the ~postoEf!ce to get a lei
ter which Larsan says was written by
Robert Darzac, for, knowing nothing
of what had passed ~ the Ely%ee, Lar
san believes that u vas NJ DaILar
himself who stole the rcticulr aud III"
key with the design Of forcing her con
sent 10y getting possession If the lrr-
cious papers of her fath"r-parerS
which he would have restored t. him
on condition that the Juarria@" engage
ment was to be fulfilled.
AN that would have been Il very
doubtful and almost absurd hTpotAe.
SIS, as Iarsan admitted to mc, iuf FOR
mother and much graver ci:rum-
stance. In the first place, here is
something which | have not heca able
70 eXplain-M Dar2ac had him~c.. on
the 9th gone TO the p~ostotice O. ask
for the letter which madcmoiSci!c had
called for and received on lhe previ-
Gus evening. The description Of the
man who made application TALES in
every respect with the appearance If
NJ. DarZac, who in answer To the
questions put to him by the examining
magistrate denies that he went TO the
postofice. Now, even admitting that
the letter was written by him. which
/ do not believe, he knew that Mile.
Stangerson had received 1t since he
had seen it In her hands In the garden
at the Elysee. 1t could not have been
he, then, who had gone to the post
office the day after the oath to ask
for a letter which he knew was no
longer there.
''To me it appears clear that some
body strongly resembling him stole
Mile. Stangerson's reticule and in that
letter had demanded OF her something
WulCu cnG udO NV cSdb hlhi' 4 iA
have been surprised at the failure Of
his demand; hence his application at
the %postofice, to learn whether his let.
ter had been delivered to the person
to whom it had been addressed. Find
ing that 1t had been claimed, he had
become furious. What had he de-
manded2 Nobody but Mile. Stanger-
son knows. Then on the day follow
ing it is reported that she has been
attacked during the night, and the
next day l discovered that the pro.
lessor had at the same time been rob-
bed by means Of the key referred to
in the poste restante letter. 1t would
seem, then, that the mar who went
to the p~ostofice to inquire for the let.
ter must have been the murderer. All
these arguments Laisan applies as
against NJ. DarZac. You may be sure
that the examining magistrate, Lar
a and myself have done III best to
get from the postottice precise details
relative to the singular parsonage who
applied there on the oath Of October.
But nothing has been learned. We
don't know where he came from or
where lie went. Beyond the descrip-
ton which makes him resemble M.
DarZac we know nothing.
II have announced in the leading
journals that Il handsome reward will
be given to a driver Of any public on.
yeyance who drove Il fare to 40, Post
Office. about 10 o'clock on the morning
OF the oath of October. Information to
be addressed to M. r. at the Office Of
the Epoque, but no answer has result
ed. The man may have walked, but as
he was most likely In a hurry there
was a chance that he might have gone
In a cab. Who. l keep asking myself
night and day, is the mar who so
strongly resembles VI. Robert DarZaC
and who is also known TO have bought
the cane which has fallen into Lar.
sans hands?
THE most serious fact is that NJ
Darzac was at tho very saEle time
that his double presented himself al
the postoifice down for n lecture mt the
SOI Dttillt. il' tlstt ilOt ttlINtiNh lbA'
lecture, and one Of his friends took his
place. When | questioned him rs Il
how he had employed the time he told
me that he had gone for Il stroll in the
Bots de Pculognc. What do you think
Of a professor who instead Of giving
his lecture obtains q substitute to &C
for q stroll in the Bois de BoulogEe'
When Frederic Larsap asked him foI
information on this point he quietly
replied that ii was no business of his
how he spent his time in Paris, on
which Fred swore aloud that he would
find out without any body's help.
"All this seems to fit In with Fred's
hypOthesis-namely, that NJ. Stanger-
o allowed the murderer to escape in
order to avoid a scandal. The hypothe-
sis Is further s~ubstantiated by the fact
that Darzac was In the yellow room
and was permitted TO get away. That
hypothesis | believe to be Q false one.
Larsan Is sbeinx misled by It, though
that would not displease me did it not
AFFECT an innocent person. Now, does
that hypothesis really mislead Frederic
Iarsan? That II the question-that Ia
the question"