Американские трагедии. Хроники подлинных уголовных расследований XIX – XX столетий. Книга XII. Алексей РакитинЧитать онлайн книгу.

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      Дословно по протоколу, представленному в суде: «I opened my mother’s store that morning at half past seven o’clock. The girl came in for papers. I told her there was a store downstairs. She went down to about the middle of the cellar and stood facing Broadway. I followed her, put my arm about her neck, my hand over her mouth, and with my knife cut her throat, holding my knife in my right hand. I then dragged her to behind the water closet, laying her head furtherest up the place, and I put some stones and some ashes on the body. I took the ashes from a box in the cellar. I [had] bought the knife about a week before for twenty-five cents. The knife was taken from me when I was arrested in April last. When I was in the cellar I heard my brother at the outside door which I had locked after the girl came in. I ran upstairs and found him going towards the cellar in Mitchell’s part, and he came back. Two girls worked in the store for mother. They usually got there about nine o’clock. Mother came later. Brother Charles and I took turns opening the store till about April. My mother and brother never knew of this affair.»