Abbiamo immaginato di essere giornalisti del ‘New York Tribune’
(fondato nel 1841) al tempo di Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), autore di “The
Raven”, “The Black Cat” e altri racconti horror. Riportiamo, di seguito, il
nostro articolo sulle misteriose circostanze della sua morte. Ci siamo basati
su fatti storici veramente accaduti link fonte
NEW YORK Tribune
A STRANGE EVENT IN
BALTIMORE
A month ago, a body was found along the main street of
Baltimore. We are writing about this event because some strange circumstances
have been noticed during the investigation. Police is still working on this
case but it is thought that the corpse belongs to a foreign traveller who was
going to Philadelphia. The causes are still unknown but the police has got his
own opinion: the deceased was identified with the name of Edgar Allan Poe, a
poet who lived in Boston. The first hypothesis is that he died because he used
to abuse of drugs, such as opium, and get hardly drunk. In fact on October 3rd some
witnesses saw him in a pub called ‘Gunners Hall’ stupefied with drink and
wearing bad trousers, a filthy shirt and hat. But someone disagrees with this reconstruction.
In fact Poe’s doctor, John Moran, after
having analyzed his corpse, excluded that his death had been caused by the use
of alcohol or drugs, although the doctor is not considered reliable by the
police because he submitted different and discordant depositions.
According to some other eyewitnesses, before Poe died
he had gone to vote for the municipal election at “Ryan’s Fourth Ward Polls”. The poet could have been involved in a fraud there, which is called “cooping”. This practice
consists in kidnapping the victim and obliging him to vote for a candidate. A
man named Joseph Walker found him lying on the street outside the polls. The
poet was in bad shape so he was taken to the Washington Medical College Hospital
in a carriage where he died after a few days of terrible agony on October 7th
at the age of forty.
There are also other strange facts related to Poe’s death that the
police is analyzing. The first one is that the poet’s luggages were not found immediately, but only some
weeks later thanks to his cousin, and, weird enough, each one of them had been
found in different places.
The second unusual event is that doctor John Carter’s walking stick was
found in Poe’s right hand on the
day of his body discovery. This stick is not a common one because there is a
blade in its inside. Therefore the police thought that Poe might been used it
to defend himself against his aggressors.
We still wonder - ‘Is his death a murder or suicide?’
Actually, there are no more news about his death but
we will continue investigating to keep you informed.
November 7th,1849
Mario Adamo &
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