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  • I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

    Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.401, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris