Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-22

Residing in Paris in 1s--, became &C
quainted with NJ. @. Auguste Dupin, a
young man Of illustrious family. but who.
reduced to poverty by loss of his family
fortune had lost both courage and am
bition.
He came to live with me and I found
delight in his hobby-that Of constantly
seeking to read the minds and motives
of men and to trace. through trivial cir
cumstances. the trend and cause of ac-
lions. The activities of his mind he ex-
ercised for his own idle amusement, I'M
til, on the occasion of murders in the
Rue Morgue, Of which 1 tell, he permit
ted his own amusement to take the form
of serious endeavor to unravel one of
the most remarkable mysteries in the an
nails of Paris. i-=,
The tragedy came to our attention
through the following paragraph in an
evening paper:
EXTRAORDINARY MURDERS.
This morning at O'Clock the inhab-
itants OF the QUARTER St. Roch were
aroused from sleep by a succession Of
terrific shrieks, issuing, apparently, from
the fourth story OF a house in the Rue
Morgue, known to be I'm the sole occu-
pancy of one Nine. LEspanaye, and her
QduSANcIS 4d4lSs (dAullie Il ElSpdndye. AZ
ter some delay, the gateway was broken
in with crowbar, and eight or ten Of the
neighbors entered accompanied by two,
gendarmes. BY this time the cries had
ceased, but as the party rushed up the
first fight of stairs, two or more rough
voices in angry contention were distin-
guished, and seemed to proceed from the
upped part of the house. As the sec
Iond landing was reached these sounds
also had ceased, and everything remained
perfectly quiet The party spread them
selves and hurried from room to room.
Upon arriving at large back chamber
in the fourth story (the door of which,
being found locked with the key inside.
was forced OPEN, spectacle presented
itself which struck every one present not
less with horror than with establishment.
1.-THE apartment was in the widest dis
order, the furniture broken and thrown
about in all directions. There was only
one bedstead, and from this the bed had
been removed and thrown into the mid
die of the floor On a chair lay a razor
besmirched with blood. On the hearth
were two or three long and thick tresses
of gray human hair. also dabbled in
blood, and seeming to have been pulled
out by the roots. Upon the floor were
found four gold coins, an earring topaz,
three large silver spoons, three
smaller pewter, and two bags0 containing
nearly four thousand francs ($s0) in gold.
The drawers of a bureau which stood in
one corner were open, and had been app
parently rihed, although many articles
still remained in them. A small iron safe
was discovered under the bed mot under.
the bedstead.) 1t was open, with the key
still I'm the door. 1t had no contents be-
yond few old letters and other papers OF
little consequence. SIS a-tHu es ~,
."Of Nine. LEspanaye no traces were
here seen, but an unusual quantity of SCOT
being observed in the fireplace, a search
was made in the chimney, and 6horrible
to relateD the corpse of the daughter,
head downward, was dragged therefrom,
II having been thus forced UP the narrow
aperture for a considerable distance. The
body was quite warm. Upon examining
it many bruises were perceived, no doubt
occasioned- by the violence with which II
had been thrust up. Upon the face were
many severe scratches, and upon the