The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-06-17
CHAPTER /.
In Which We Begin Not 20
Understand.

s~1HE yellow roofn!' Who nov
remembers this affair which
caused SO much ink 10 flow
On the 25th of October, 1892
the following note appeared in the lat
est edition of the Temps:
"a frightful crime has been commit
ted at the Chateau du Chandler, on the
border Of the forest of Sainte Gene
We've, above Ep1nay-sur-O rge, at the
house Of Professor Stangerson. In the
night, while the master was working
In his laboratory, an attempt was made
to assassinabe Mile. StangeFson, who
was sleeping In the yellow ROOM a
chamber adjoining this laboratory
The doctors do not answer for the life
of Mile Stangerson."
The impression made ON Paris by
this news may be easily imagined. Al
ready at that time the learned world
was deeply interested in the labors of
Professor Stangerson and his daugh-
ter. These hbors-the first that were
attempted In photography served to
open the way for II and Nine. Curie
to the discovery Of radium It was
expected the professor would shortly
pead to the Academy of Sciences SEN
gatf0nG paper on his new theory. the
dasqCGfatisn Of matter, a theory des-
tined to overthrow from itB base the
who's OF 0ficiaa sc4ence, wtAcas based
ifsaiR ON tine prineirA OF stase cengesvu-
ton Of eusRgy. ..-s.4
On the 3Oilowtn@ day the newHpspers |
weEs fnr Of TIM Tragedy. me Metin |
puhliAhed the following eFsdcle. entitled
"a Supernatural Cramc-''
'Sfhass are the oniy defz1A" wrote
the anonymous writer In ths Ma&an,
I'VE have been ahle 30 o0&atn ennCern-
inS the crime Of the Chatham du Chan
der. The state OF despair I'm which
Professor gtRnSErson @ plunged and
the impossibiltty of getting any tnfor
nation from the Tips Of the victim
have rendered our investigations and
those of Justice SO difficult that at
present we cannot form the least IDEA
OF what has passed In the yellow room
In which Mile. Stangerson. In her night
dress, was found lying ON the door In
The agonjes Of death. We have at least
been able to interview Daddy jacques,
ss he 10 called in the country. an old
Dervant In the 6tangexSon family.
Daddy jacques entered the yellow
DOM ut the same time as the profess
or. This chamber adjotns the labo- 3
atoEy. LaboMRtuTy and yellow room E
re in a pavilion at the end Of the :.
ark, about atthousand fest from the
hafeau.
"'Tt was han past II &C utght, this
onagt old man told us. and was In &c
be- laboratory, where N. Stangerson n
rag stf1l working. when the thing hap a
ened. had been cleaning and put n
ne Instruments IN order all the even "
q and was waiting for M. Stangerson th
J 90 10 bed. Mile. Stangerson had q
okked with her father up to midnight ca
vhen the twelve strokes Of midnight q
I'd been sounded by the cuckoo clock en-
the laboratory she sosa. kiased M.
angerson and babe him good night. IN
vase she said Good night, Daddy ros
= ..pes," as she passed into the vel wi
" room, We heard her lock the sm
or and shoot the bolt, 30 that ! chs
uld not help laughing and said to we
,nsieur: There's mademoiseile dou- In
. locking herself In She must be noc
aid OF ''the Bette du Bon Dieu." ord
Monsieur nd not even hear me, he owe
g 80 deeply absorbed In what he bee
8 doing. Just then we heard the had
tant miawfng OF cat. 'Is that BED
ne to keep MS awake all nightT' l had
q to myself, for must tell you, ner
nsieur, that, to the end of October, ing
NO A. az atttc ne tho navy,,on over Fro
yellow room, so that mademoiseile SIRE
uld not be left alone through the .nAo
bit in thp lonely Dark. 1t was the "a