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The Beautiful Cigar Girl

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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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