Once a day, the narrator and Dupin read newspaper headlines. They found a headline about a terrible murder in the Rue Morgue. The crime happened at night at three a.m. there were shrieks coming from the apartment of Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter, Mademoiselle Camille. The neighbors of them told the police what heard at night of sounds coming …show more content…
he got some conclusions that the police were misled. There were elements of the crime that Dupin thought for example, the terrible voice that remained unidentifiable both its gender and its nationality. It was not words but some sounds. Also, the police asserted that the window of the apartment should not be opened from the outside. They believed that the windows to be nailed shut; Dupin discovered that there was a broken nail in one window. It seemed to be intact. At this moment, Dupin asserted that surmises that someone could open the window, exited the apartment, and closed the window from the outside without making any …show more content…
While arriving the sailor, Upin referred the pistol to him and asked him to tell all what he knows. He assured that the sailor should be innocent. The sailor told that the animal grasped the razor of his closet and run, climbed to the walls arriving to the apartment of the killed. The sailor sward that he followed the animal and watched what it did. He could not catch it. But he watched it killing the two victims and pushed Madame L’Espanaye and choked Camille. The sailor thus confirmed that the deep voices emitting from the apartment was his own, but the shrieks were to his animal the Ourang-Outang.
Surely, when the murderer was known, and the mystery was solved, the police released Le Bon. Instead of the policeman should be grateful to Dupin for his assistance, he was sarcastic. Dupin commented at end of the story, that the prefect is a man of ingenuity, not