Show 0 adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVE S OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 frenzy and old beast OME of the most horrible stories the world has ever read S 3 were written by a fellow named edgar allan poe way back in the beginning of the last century historians and biographers tell us that poe was a man with a wildly disordered mind a feverish almost insane brain out of which he concocted his strange and terrible tales the yarns he wrote were pure fiction the of his brilliant but mad imagination while reading one of his strange stories you might almost be tempted to say that nothing so bizarre could ever happen in real life but dont say it you might be wrong truth has a trick of turning out to be stranger than even the wildest sort of imaginative fiction one of the most famous of poes stories is called the murders in the rue morgue it is the tale of a ghastly murder the tale of a woman throttled to death and her body stuffed up a fireplace chimney by a huge ape and there is a curious true parallel to that macabre flight of fancy in this yarn we have here today told by distinguished adventurer anna jacob of woodside N Y it happened on july 21 1918 and its the story of I 1 the he most terrifying experience in anna jacobs life the yarn involves a couple of neighbors in passaic Pas salo N J where anna then lived so BO lets look these neighbors over one of them lived a few blocks away from annas home a mrs gutches who had three small children aged two four and six fix on the fateful july day when annas number turned up in adventures lottery mrs gutches had asked her to stay at her house and take care of the children while she went out to do some shopping anna consents to watch neighbors children anna consented and so we find her as our story opens in a second floor bedroom of the gutches home watching over little two year V 0 15 4 v she seized the fork prongs and made a lab jab at the ape old anna may who lies asleep in her crib in another room the other two children are taking their afternoon nap its two p m and all alls s well but it wont be in another couple of minutes down the street a few doors from anna jacobs home Is another neighbor and there Is where the trouble is brewing this other neighbor his has a pet ape tour four feet tall stocky and powerful in a cage inthe in the back yard the ape is tame but in his big hairy paw he be holds a bottle the bottle is halt half full of whisky and it has been given him by the gardener who thinks its a great joke to see the animal get drunk but watch out mister blister gardener men have done terrible things under the influence of liquor what will an ape do in the same condition the ape finishes the bottle of whisky his teeth show as his lips curl back in a snarl one great muscular arm grasps a bar of the cage bends lt it rips alp it out the ape crawls through the opening hes off over the fence free drunk looking for trouble as he hops and reels along through the back yards along the block no one saw the ape break loose from his cage no one saw him prowling through the neighborhood the first one to see him at all was anna jacob in the second floor bedroom where little anna may slept in her crib anna heard beard some strange scratching sounds she went to the window and stood frozen with terror at the sight of the ape climbing up the side of the house there was a fiendish look in the apes eyes anna know the ape was drunk but there was a fiendish look in his bloodshot eyes and a meaning in his curled lips and bared fangs that told her something was wrong that ape never too tractable in the first place was now a snarling bestial demon on it came straight toward the window out of which she was looking it swung up to the sill reached out with strong hairy bands and RAISED THE As the window went up anna leaped back her eyes darted about the room but the only weapon in sight was an apple picker a set of forked prongs on a five foot wooden handle she seized that and made a jab at the ape the ape was halfway half way through the he window but he drew back without knowing it anna was using the one weapon that hat animals are afraid of the same sort of sharp pointed goad that hat lion tamers use to keep their huge cats at a distance the ape made another lunge through the window but again anna thrust forward with her pronged stick again the ape drew back anna could keep him from coming through the window but that was all if she relaxed her vigilance for a moment the drunken beast would be in the room she wanted to run tor for help but that would mean leaving little anna mae in the crib to the mercy of the brute and there was no mercy in that glowering simian face and those burning bloodshot eyes anna watches chance to catch him unawares As I 1 kept thrusting the apple picker at him anna says 1 I 1 watched my chance to cat catch chhim him unawares but the ape was too quick for me I 1 prayed that hat he would get tired of dodging that picker and go away but he only glared at me out of h his Is ugly little eyes and kept on trying hours passed and I 1 was almost ready to drop from weariness and strain again and again agai I 1 thought of running for help but it if I 1 left that bat ape alone for a moment he would kill the child in the crib perhaps even break down the doors and get at the other children it was late that aftem afternoon oon before any help came to anna then the owner of the ape came home found him missing and searched the neighborhood bo not until then was anna rele asad asod from duty that kept he her r standing before that window making repeated jabs with her stick at th that t drink arink crazed brute she was all but exhausted by then but at last th alia children were safe anna says she never wants to see another ape as long as she lives and I 1 don dont t blame her my guess is that if it been for her courage and nd fortitude poes story of the murders to in the rue morgue might have been een repeated in passaic Pas Rt leased by western 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