"Notwithstanding the acclamation the discovery thicket was received press, unanimity supposed to indicate the precise scene outrage, it admitted that some reason for doubt the scene, or not believe - but excellent reason for doubt Had the true scene been, as Le Commerciel suggested, neighborhood Rue Pave St Andre, the perpetrators crime, supposing them still resident in Paris, would naturally stricken with terror public attention thus acutely directed proper channel; and, in certain classes of minds, there arisen, at once, sense necessity of some exertion to redivert this attention And thus, the thicket Barrire du Roule having been already suspected, the idea of placing the articles where they were found, naturally entertained no real evidence, although Le Soleil so supposes, articles discovered more than very thicket; while much circumstantial proof that have remained there, without attracting attention, during the twenty days elapsing fatal Sunday afternoon they were found boys 'They were all mildewed down hard,' says Le Soleil, adopting the opinions predecessors, ' action rain, and stuck together from mildew The grass had grown around and over The silk parasol was strong, but the threads of it were run together within The upper part, where it bad been doubled and folded, was all mildewed and rotten, and tore on being opened ' In respect grass having ' grown around and over ,' obvious fact could only ascertained words, and thus recollections, of two small boys; boys removed the articles and took them home seen by third party But grass will grow, especially in warm and damp weather, (such as period murder,) as inches in single day parasol lying upon newly turfed ground, might, in single week, be entirely concealed from sight upspringing grass And touching that mildew the editor of Le Soleil so pertinaciously insists, that he employs the word no three times brief paragraph just quoted, is he really unaware nature mildew ? Is he told many classes of fungus, the most ordinary feature is its upspringing and decadence within twenty-four hours ?

"Thus we see, at glance, that most triumphantly adduced in support idea articles bad been 'for three or four weeks' thicket, is most absurdly null as regards any evidence fact other hand, exceedingly difficult articles remained thicket specified, for longer period than single week - for longer period than from one Sunday next Those any thing vicinity of Paris, know the extreme difficulty of finding seclusion unless at great distance from its suburbs Such thing as an unexplored, or even an unfrequently visited recess, amid its woods or groves, for moment imagined Let who, being at heart lover of nature, is yet chained by duty dust and heat great metropolis - let any such one attempt, even during the weekdays, to slake his thirst for solitude amid the scenes of natural loveliness which immediately surround us At every second step, the growing charm dispelled voice and personal intrusion of some ruffian or party of carousing blackguards seek privacy amid the densest foliage, all in vain Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound - here are the temples most desecrate With sickness heart the wanderer will flee back polluted Paris less odious because less incongruous sink of pollution But vicinity city is so beset during the working days week, more so Sabbath ! now especially that, released claims of labor, or deprived customary opportunities of crime, the town blackguard seeks the precincts town, not through love rural, which heart he despises, but by way of escape restraints and conventionalities of society He desires less the fresh air green trees, utter license country Here, road-side inn, or beneath the foliage woods, he indulges, unchecked by any eye except those boon companions, in all the mad excess of counterfeit hilarity - the joint offspring of liberty and of rum nothing more than what obvious to every dispassionate observer, when I repeat circumstance articles having remained undiscovered, for longer period - than from one Sunday to another, in any thicket immediate neighborhood of Paris, looked upon as little miraculous

"But not wanting other grounds suspicion articles were placed thicket view of diverting attention real scene outrage And, first, let me direct your notice date discovery articles Collate this date fifth extract made newspapers discovery followed, almost immediately, the urgent communications sent evening paper These communications, although various and apparently from various sources, tended all same point - viz , the directing of attention to gang perpetrators outrage, and neighborhood Barrire du Roule as its scene Now here, , the suspicion that, in consequence communications, or public attention directed, the articles were found boys; but the suspicion might and may well , articles before found boys, reason articles before been thicket; having been deposited there only at so late period as date, or shortly prior date communications guilty authors communications themselves

"This thicket was singular - an exceedingly singular one unusually dense Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming seat with back and footstool And this thicket, so full of natural art, was immediate vicinity, within few rods, dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were habit of closely examining the shrubberies in search bark sassafras Would it be rash wager - wager of one thousand to one -- that day never passed over the heads boys without finding ensconced umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne ? Those hesitate at such wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature I repeat -- exceedingly hard to comprehend how the articles remained thicket undiscovered, for longer period than days; thus good ground for suspicion, dogmatic ignorance of Le Soleil, were, at comparatively late date, deposited where found