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That
one that to the age of the facts - 1841 - came
considered with great fuss the mysterious one
died of "sigaraia" the Mary Rogers,
today to New York would deserve, and not, a trafiletto
in some angle of page of a daily paper. The fact
that the case never did not come resolved, was
the motivating force that movements the interest
of Lidgar Allan Poe, than knew it to transform
in most classic of history polite some. To approximately
average century of distance from the dead women
of the girl, it was thought that the hypothesis
suggested from Poe could in part be corrected,
to the point that a writer succeeded in to think
that the same Poe could be been involved in connects.
Mary Cecilia Rogers was been born to New York
in 1820. The mother, remained vedova when the
child had only five years, disembarked to the
lunario managing rooms in rent in Nassau Street.
Growing, Mary had become one great beautiful slanciata
girl, from hats corvini. Its attractiveness had
attracted the attention of a trader, a sure John
Anderson, that it ahead sent a store of sigari
to Broadway, which it proposed them to become
its store clerk, its sigaraia. Proposal somewhat
spudorata, if it is believed that the New York
of the time was still more “vittoriana”
and bigot of London and that a resale of sigari
obviously was only attended from men, young people
and little young people, more or little incalliti
smokers. "Esporsi" in front of such
customers was not seen of good eye. The mother,
in fact, was itself opposite, but to the end the
enthusiasm of the girl was successful to prevail
also on its objections. In short the job of Mary
it had given to optimal fruits, attracting to
the store many new customers, this although the
young person continued to maintain a behavior
absolutely irreprensibile. Even if to times its
smile seemed winning and full of promises, not
it was offered that it did not come sonorously
rejected. After to have worked assiduously for
ten months in the store of Anderson, a day of
January of the 1841 Mary more had not been introduced,
was like disappeared to the unexpected one. The
mother did not have the minimal idea of where
she could find itself. Duke Writes: "Also
its employer, Mr. Anderson, did not know to become
qualified itself of its passing". The police
had activated itself and the news had appeared
on newspapers. But six days after, Mary was reappeared,
pulled and to the sick appearance, saying that
it had gone to make visit to some far relatives.
Mother and employer were themselves please you
of the explanation. When but in the quarter they
were begun to turn voices in which one said that
Mary during the absence from the store had been
seen in company of beautiful an official of Navy,
the girl, to single little days from I re-enter
to house, was of new passing from Broadway, this
time definitively. A month after the mother had
received the news of its engagement with a man
who had been a its renter, an employee of name
Daniel Payne. Five months after, Sunday 25 July
1841, to the 10 in point of mattino the Mary had
knocked to the door of the fiancèe annunciandogli
that was in order to o to find one aunt in Bleecker
Street. Payne had answered to them that it would
be passed to call it towards evening. The young
person also had he passed to the day outside house,
then, burst a violent thunderstorm, had decided
to re-enter, without to pass from Mary, that therefore
it could have slept from the aunt. The mother
also had said itself of agreement. But when the
day after Mary it had not made return house, the
mother had begun to preoccuparsi. When Payne,
returned from the job, had known it, it was itself
hasty to house of the aunt - a sure mrs. Downing
- seeing to ulteriorly grow its agitation in coming
to know that the girl at all had not gone to make
them visit. Two days after, the Wednesday, three
fishermen on a boat, while they were found in
waters of Castle Point, to Hoboken, had recovered
the corpse of one woman. It was the poor Mary.
Being to the report reported from the "New
York Tribunes", the body was "orribilmente
seviziato cripple and". Mary completely was
dressed, even if the dresses were all ruin to
you and the bustino lacked them. Pezzetto of peak
torn from the hem of the skirt them it had been
conficcato therefore deeply in the throat not
to be not even visible to one first observation.
The autopsy confirmed that that expected to us:
the girl had been brutally violentata. Enough
strangely, the fiancèe Daniel Payne, refused
to go to recognize the body, also being be between
the most active investigators of the girl for
all the city, comprised Hoboken. After to have
been interrogated from the police, Payne had been
endured rilasciato. Last a week without some innovation,
had been fixed a lauta ricompensa. Then the coroner
it had received the anonymous letter of a man
- which it justified the period of Hush for reasons
that it defined of "precaution" - that
afternoon said to have seen Mary Rogers Sunday,
day of its disappearance. The girl was come down
from a boat with six loschi figures and with they
she had been advanceed in the forest, laughing
and joking to high voice, like if not it had been
some problem neither constriction. Immediately
after, a boat was berthed from which they were
come down three gentiluomini. One of these, stopped
two fishermen, had asked if they had for noticed
case one girl in company of six men. The answer,
obviously, had been affirmative. One of the fishermen
also had emphasized the joy of the girl. After
that the trio it was gone back in boat in order
to head towards New York. It traces to you, the
two had confirmed every thing. However, also knowing
Mary of sight, nobody of they it was felt to allegate
in all certainty that the laughing young person
was indeed Mary Rogers. Successive the important
information had arrived from a coachman, sure
Adams, which it said to have noticed Mary arriving
to the Hoboken port of call in company of a man
very planted, dressed elegant. They had been made
to induce to taverna "the Nick Mullen”.
The inn was held from a sure mrs. Loss, which
testified the police who the brace, after "is
rested itself and refreshed", if n' she had
gone heading towards the forest. Some moment after
had heard of the grida to come from laggiù,
but from the moment that the place "was not
just posticino recommendable" not it had
made us case more than a lot. To two months from
the murder, the 25 september, some boys who were
playing in the forest had found the corpetto lacking
Mary together to a ticket, and then a scarf in
silk, a parasol and a handkerchief with them begin
them "M.R.". The fiancèe of Mary,
Daniel Payne, some time after killed in that same
point. He came arrested to a gambler, Joseph Vices,
that he lived in Nassau Street, suspected of the
homicide, from the moment that some witnesses
declared to have seen it in company of Mary the
evening in which was passing. Combination, just
the day after the murder, Vices had left New York.
Made the opportune assessments, Vices but had
been rilasciato, in force of a alibi, like its
to say itself, of iron, having wide demonstrated
to have passed the afternoon of Sunday to Staten
Island in company of an other young woman. In
a singular report, appeared on the daily paper
"Tribunes", read that Vices were convinced
that the young woman with which had passed the
day was Mary Rogers and that when had known of
the found again body it had paventato had killed
as a result of that that it had succeeded between
they: it had tried to use them violence, while
they found themselves in its room. When he had
come to know that the girl was still alive and
vegeta, she had pulled a great breath of relief.
This for how much regarded surveyings. The year
after, in 1842, mystery of Marie Rogers”
exited in three aiming the story of entitled Poe
“Il;. Anyone believes to find the solution
to you of the true crime, that one of Mary Rogers,
is well considers the issue with extreme precaution.
Poe imagines that Mary has not been killed from
one band, but from a single individual. The single
scope would have been that one of the sexual violence.
When, some time after but, come to know of the
ventilated hypothesis that the girl was died as
a result of an abortion, Poe had see again its
history, modifying it in part. From the signs
of fight it traces to you in the forest and from
the tumefazioni of the face, Poe deduced that
the girl came killed from a single man, because
if they had been in many to concur to its killing
sure would have massacred it in way much worse.
The dresses roll up to you around the body, but,
could have served like points of taken, of the
handles, for being able to transport it, favouring
the theory of the group, even if the testimony
of two of the fishermen who had recovered the
body did not give signs to have noticed this particular
one. But, to part this observation, must be recognized
that the objections made from Poe on purpose of
the theory of the group had however a remarkable
weight. In an article appeared on one review,
two journalists suggest the hypothesis that the
same Poe could be the assassin. Being to a witness,
Mary had been noticed in company of a man, elegant,
high and of dark complexion. Poe was olive of
skin and usually elegant, but a high man could
not sure dirsi, little more than a meter and sixty.
Perhaps he had killed it in a raptus of "madness
provoked from the alcohol". Just in 1841,
Virginia, the moglie, was dying of tisi and Poe
found in one sure unstable psychical condition.
It will write, later: "Divenni crowds, with
long intervals of orribile normality - in these
moments of empty I only drank, only God knows
how much". Nevertheless one of numerous the
its biographers has not never described Poe like
a violent person, indeed, many emphasize the contrary
exactly, are worth to say its affability and gentility.
The History, we know it, is full of given over
men of genius all’alcol - pack-saddles to
very think Jonson or to Caravaggio - able also,
in conditions of psychical alteration, to defy
to duel and to kill a man; but a single case does
not exist in which an artist it has consumed in
deliberate way a homicide. In adding, nobody between
the witnesses had marked who the man seen with
Mary Rogers seemed drunk. It is for this, to our
warning, than the figure of Poe like demonic assassin
of the poor one sigaraia other being abandoned
and relegated in the reame of the fantasiose hypotheses
must senz'. That that Poe in 1842 seems not knowledge
is that the employer of Mary, Mr. Anderson, had
been to along suspected from the police, even
if then, to the end, it had been rilasciato like
all the stopped others. But half century after,
in 1891, important particular were emerged others.
It was come to know that Anderson - to the age
by now died from ten years - had become richest
and had been moved to Paris. From what it had
told the friends, it had passed "terrible
days because of she" (Mary Rogers) and was
felt in contact with its spirit. To its dead women,
the eredi its fortunes had protested and in the
1891 daughter it had contested the testament allegating
that when the parent had siglato it was not more
in a position to meaning and than wish. The case
was landed in court, but the documentation had
gone destroyed. But a lawyer, Samuel Copp Worthen,
intimate friend of Laura Appleton, the daughter
of Anderson, had come to know that near the offices
of the enterprise managed from Anderson a copy
of the actions of the case of the Supreme Court
of New York existed, and it had been given to
make in order to recover them. That that was emerged
had been object of along article that Worthen
had published in a number of 1948 of "American
Literature". Therefore it had been come to
know that in long the interrogating ones which
the police had Anderson subordinate, the man was
“uscito of testa”, to the point quite
to renounce to its previewed candidacy to mayor
of New York, in the fear that someone could never
discover those its secret. But the more meaningful
part of its testimony was in the admission to
have supported for Mary Rogers strong expenses
for an abortion and that that "weight continued
to carry it behind", also specifying with
vigor that "it, from part its, did not have
null to that to see with that matter". This
very would explain the unexpected absence of one
week of Mary and its tired and sick aspect to
the return and perhaps also successive the almost
immediate new disappearance, due not a lot to
the malelingue on purpose of the official young
person of Navy, as far as the necessity to still
extend of some time the convalescenza. The theory
proposed from Worthen supports that to six months
from the first one, Mary had been forced to according
to abortion and once again had gone to cadge case
from its employer, Mr. Anderson. When Sunday morning
was exited of house, it was directed to Hoboken
for sottoporsi to the abortive participation.
(Not for null, between the many, it turned also
the second history which mrs. Loss, the locandiera,
in point of dead women, had confessed that Mary
Rogers just was died dissanguata as a result of
a not successful abortion. A history never considered,
but towards which to a sure moment of surveyings
it was decidedly turns the opinion of the investigators.
Mary, therefore, was died during the abortion
and the body had been thrown in close river in
order above all covering illicit but the protagonists,
the man from the olive skin seen with she to the
port of call and the Loss family, that the room
for the participation had affittato. Until that
point this hypothesis adapted to the facts therefore
as we know them? The answer is this: much well,
species if we assume like concrete the eventuality
that the father of the second nascituro was Daniel
Payne, inasmuch as Mary did not have intention
to marry it and, probably, had not at all cut
the previous relation with the other lover. (Null
it has been gotten rid in merit, even if he is
more than reasonable to imagine that the man was
just Mr. Anderson). That strengthened, we imagine
that Payne was to the current that Mary was oing
to Hoboken for sottoporsi to the abortion. We
imagine also that the pregnancy was hardly to
the beginning and that therefore the operation
would not have stremata it more than a lot, holding
also in the just account the fact that the girl
already had gone encounter to an abortion from
which one was resumption nel.giro.di week, also
exiting some debilitated. Nearly sure the mother
of Mary was to the current of every thing. Duke
comments: "It was common opinion to the time
of the facts, than the mother of the girl it knew
very more things than how many of it it had confessed
the police on purpose of the secret lover of the
daughter". That to say, then, of the testimonies
on purpose of the band of six men? Nothing of
particular, because at all she is not said that
that girl was truly Mary Rogers. Rather, it is
probable that the anonymous letter in which it
told to have seen Mary to advance in the forest
in company of six men suspiciones, could calmly
be be a matter of a false one, one missiva written
from same mrs. Loss or one of its friends: the
shipment locality was Hoboken. The successive
step would have been that one to convince two
friends to introduce itself to testify of being
the two fishermen who had seen Mary to enter in
the forest and, interrogates to you on the wharf,
of it had given confirmation to the three mysterious
elegant men come down from the boat... The result
would have been a perfect depistaggio that would
have lead surveyings degli enquirers towards tutt'
other directions respect to that true one. That
to say, then, of the corpetto found in the forest?
It watches case, particular nothing at all to
neglect, it had been found from one of the daughters
of mrs. Loss. The corpetto, as all the other objects
then find again to you, it could have been forgotten
in the room, when, once died, Mary it had been
captured in the heart of the night for being jetty
in the river, and therefore abandoned in the forest
in a point in which the broken vegetation and
it treads on it could have made to think next
to one colluttazione. Finally, than to say with
respect to the presumed endured sexual violence
from Mary? On this, in appearance, it seemed to
insist the relationship of the judge; but in truth
it is not clear if the poveretta it came visited
to this fine from a doctor and, if, which were
its conclusions. That that of sure one knows is
that when had been found, the body of the young
person had already begun to decomporsi and that,
because of the torrid July of that year, from
lì to little hours had been inumata, what
that would difficultly have concurred to carry
out all necessary the investigative operations
on the corpse. To this purpose it is worth remembering
that in the 1841 legal medicine it was completing
the first steps and it is strongly doubt that
someone has been taken care to capture a vaginal
champion in order to verify the presence or less
than male seed. That that to a superficial observation
they were seems to you the signs of a stupro,
they could very well have been instead those of
an unfortunate malriuscito abortion. Duke reports
of the suicide of Daniel Payne, the fiancèe
of Mary, and writes: "It went itself to kill
in the same point in which he said that its beneamata
girl had been violentata". Other authors
are themselves interrogate on the issue the suicide
to you of Payne sure seem to have themselves to
connect to the fact that the son who Mary Rogers
was waiting for was its. Sure, to think that one
of the homicide cases considers you more intriguers
than all the history of the crime he reduces himself
simply to the fine a lot to an attempt of not
successful abortion, is one enough annoying what.
But because is still today therefore little those
who knows it? In good part because Poe, with its
story, sin from has endured depistato from this
trace. In the edition of the works of Poe appeared
in 1850, to a year from its dead women, the story
of Marie Rogers appears with a famous one to margin
in which it is said: "It is worth the pain
remembering... that the confessions of two persons
- one of these mrs. Dulac of the story (correspondent
to mrs. Loss) - rendered in different moments
a lot after the publication, have revealed in
all, not only the general conclusion of the facts,
but also more the minimums details that concur
to think such reliable conclusions senz' other".
This is obviously impossible. The only thing that
mrs. Loss seems has admitted is that the poor
Mary was died to continuation of the hemorrhages
derived from the abortion practiced in one room
of its inn. Instead the hypothesis of Poe a man
contemplates who hits in a moment the book of
martyrs, and that then he drags the corpse until
the sea. The more credible solution opts for one
died happened because of a embolo, one died that
who had churns, of understanding with mrs. Loss,
had intentional to make to believe various, tightening
one strip of the burlap of the skirt of Mary around
the neck with such energy to make it to penetrate
it in the meat. Then, with, the two had transported
the body until the sea, insomma, the story of
Poe are tutt' other that one faithful reconstruction
of the facts, indeed sound rather like one grotesque,
malriuscita imitation. Poe will not have been,
like is convinced, an assassin, but it was of
sure an optimal one bugiardo.
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