------Original Message------ From: Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi> To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca Sent: May 2, 2000 6:09:50 PM GMT
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Ed Bunker and ex(?)-cons
Dear Juri,
I'm not having a good day re memory, but as I recall,
Gaboriau (?sp) was a talented self-exploitor whose exploits
for the French police are contested by scholars. Some say he
was a pretty accurate reporter. Others say his memory (like
mine recently) was faulty---or he was a brilliant fabricator.
As I recall he created an indexing system that is the
forerunner of modern police archival methods. If he be the
same fellow I read about, I know he influenced Poe. I thought
that there was recent evidence, however, that Dickens
inspiration was a series of real newspaper acounts. (Another
technique that influenced Poe--although he was a famous
hoaxer, also).
All this remains untrustworthy information. My files are not
with me.
Keith
You mean Gaboriau, who wrote his memoirs early in the 19th
century and became sort of a example for Poe and Dickens,
like you said.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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