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INDEX
Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abortion theory
and Anderson, 364
evidence supporting, 250–62
examination of, 357–66
and “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 261–64, 289, 296–97, 316, 354–55
press on, 260
and social issue of abortion, 297–98, 342–44
accomplices, immunity for, 182, 212, 235
Advocate of Moral Reform, 109, 261–62
“Al Aaraaf” (Poe), 325
Al Aaraaff, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (Poe), 54
alcoholism of Poe
effects of, 263–64, 323–24
and employment, 78, 130–31, 299, 326
and finances, 46–47, 298
frequency of drinking, 327
Gowans on, 36
hospitalization, 334–35
imprisonment, 332
and journal, 298, 299
and relationships, 327, 333
and success, 82–83, 263–64
tolerance for, 222
and Virginia’s health, 330
and visit to Jennings, 292, 293
Allan, Frances, 41, 52, 55, 76
Allan, John, 41–48, 51–54, 55–57, 58, 75–76
Allan, Louisa Patterson, 55, 76
Anderson, John
business of, 15–16 (see also Anderson’s Tobacco Emporium)
as depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 279
and disappearance of Rogers (1838), 25–26
in late life, 362
and Poe, 362–63
and reward, 154–55
and Rogers’s move to New York, 23
as suspect, 183–84, 360–61, 362–63, 366
Anderson’s Tobacco Emporium
and disappearance of Rogers (1838), 25–26, 274
employment of Rogers, 3–4, 27, 34
patrons, 6, 16, 17–19, 38, 108, 170, 180, 279
Rogers’s effect on business, 17–19
success of, 15–16, 360
“Annabel Lee” (Poe), 331, 339
Archer (coroner), 146, 205, 260
Astor House Hotel, 13–14
Attree, William, 153–54, 199
“Automaton Chess Player,” 69–73, 224–25, 293–94
autopsy results, 92–98, 146, 260. See also murder investigation
Aymar, Peter, 28
Babbage, Charles, 70
Baltimore, Maryland, 79
Baltimore Sunday Visiter, 226
banking panic of 1837, 37, 123
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 219–20, 226
Barnum, P. T., 14–15, 89
Baudelaire, Charles, 9–10, 222, 349–50
Beach, Moses, 152, 154, 155
Beauchamp, Jeroboam O., 79
Beauchampe (Simms), 224
Beauchamp-Sharp murder case, 79–80, 224
Beautiful Cigar Girl: or the Mysteries of Broadway, The (Ingraham), 308–9, 315, 347
Benjamin, Park, 152, 154, 229
Bennett, James Gordon
and abortion theory, 252–53
on Anderson, 361
attacks on, 155
background, 111–14
call for reforms, 341–42
competition, 255
on disappearance of Rogers (1841), 280–81
editorial role, 111–21 (see also New York Herald)
on identity of dead body, 162–63
on initial investigation, 143–46
and Jewett murder, 115–21
and journalistic propriety, 5
on judges, 148–49, 342
and Merritt, 144–46
on murder thicket investigation, 199–200, 266–67
on penny papers, 182
on progress of investigation, 259
public opinion on, 151–52
reprinted in Saturday Evening Post, 225
and reward, 151–56
on role of press, 86
theories on murderers, 232, 237–38
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 346
Bertram, John, 96
Bisco, John, 324
boardinghouse on Nassau Street, 28–29, 169–70
Bookout, Edward, 166, 168, 170
Boston, Massachusetts, 48–49, 325
Boston Notion, 228
Boulard, James, 90
Briggs, Charles, 323–24
Broadway Journal, 314, 323–24, 326, 345, 355
Brother Jonathan, 26, 212–14, 239
Bryant, William Cullen, 16, 118
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 336
Buntline, Ned, 347 (see also Judson, Edward Zane Carroll)
Burr, Aaron, 144
Burton, William, 127–28, 129–30, 131
Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, 127–30
Callender (police clerk), 190
Canter, 26–27, 160–61
Casket, 131
chess-playing automaton, 69–73, 133–34, 224–25, 293–94
Chivers, Thomas Holley, 80, 221
Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 125
Clarke, Thomas C., 263, 298, 299
Clements (physician), 206
Clemm, Maria
boardinghouse business, 37
and Griswold, 337
and Neilson Poe, 77, 78
in New York, 306–7
Poe’s hallucinations about, 332
Poe’s relationship with, 73–74, 82
Poe’s residence with, 73, 76, 331
Clemm, William, 73
clothing on body
and abortion theory, 260
and cloth hitch, 96, 158, 198, 272, 277, 278
discovery of new evidence, 193–94, 199–200
and identification of body, 169, 187, 190
inconsistent reports on, 215
knot in bonnet, 96, 158, 277, 278
in “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 234–35, 266–72
and theories on murderers, 215, 254, 365
Columbia Spy, 308
Commercial Advertiser, 109
Committee of Safety, 151–56, 184, 229–30, 341–42, 364
Conchologist’s First Book, The (Poe), 126, 363
Confession of the Awful and Bloody Transactions of Charles Wallace, 347–48
Cook, Richard H.
on abortion theory, 260
on cloth hitch, 96, 158, 198, 277, 278
criticism of, 146, 186, 260
and Crommelin, 258
on knot in bonnet, 96, 157–58, 277, 278
and murder thicket evidence, 195
Payne’s autopsy, 209–11
Poe’s incorporation of testimony, 234
Rogers’s autopsy, 92–98
on state of body, 187
Cooke, Ann, 79
Cooper, James Fenimore, 16, 38
copyright infringement, 126
coroner’s autopsy results, 92–98, 146, 260. See also murder investigation
Courier and Enquirer
on confession, 259–60
and Crommelin, 189
Merritt’s letter to, 255–56
on progress of investigation, 261, 262
on suspects, 158, 159, 165, 174
crim
e literary genre, 7, 140–41, 351–52
crime reporting, 115–16, 120–21
Crommelin, Alfred
and abortion theory, 257–58
criticism of, 188–91
as depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 233, 240
described, 29–30
and disappearance of Rogers (1841), 65–66, 67
identification of body, 91–92, 93, 98, 184–85
and Payne, 188, 191, 207
and Phoebe Rogers, 188
as public face of Rogers’s murder, 207
and Rogers’s plea for help, 61, 190, 257–58, 359
rumors, 182
as suitor, 30–31
as suspect, 359–60
testimony on Payne, 107
theories on murder, 110
as witness, 96
Daily Express, 109
Daily Graphic, 87
Davis, Andrew Jackson, 348–49, 365–66
Day, Benjamin
Bennett on, 152
as depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 241
on Loss, 216
on murder thicket investigation, 213–14, 266–67
rivals, 186–87
and sensationalism, 120
on survival of Rogers, 184, 190, 239
theories on case, 232
Dead House, 101, 169
deductive thinking, 133–34 (see also ratiocination)
Dickens, Charles, 88, 219–20, 226
“Diddling Considered As One of the Exact Sciences” (Poe), 321–22 Dixon, George, 297
Downing, Mrs., 60, 63, 107, 108
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 351–52
drowning theory, 146, 240–41
Dupin, C. Auguste (fictional character)
on gang theory, 237–39, 265–72
on identity of murderer, 272–85
in “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 227–28 (see also “Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The”)
in “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The,” 7, 135–41
on murder thicket, 266–72
in “Purloined Letter, The,” 309–10
ratiocination employed by, 9, 71, 235–44, 286, 287, 293
on sailors’ knots, 158
six “extracts” of, 242, 265, 287, 291
Duyckinck, Evert, 315, 324, 326, 330
“Eleonora” (Poe), 81–82, 219
elopement theory, 274–75, 279
Elysian Fields, 88–93, 109, 143
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 350
employment of Poe
and alcoholism of Poe, 78, 130–31, 326
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