> All New Orleans was disturbed at the rumor that one of its civic treasures, the nine priceless leaves of the Gutenberg Bible reposing in its stately Sheldon Memorial Library, had been stolen; but when the rumor became a fact and was followed by a series of murders so hideous that every paper’s headlines screamed each new phase of the case, that concern changed swiftly to almost a panic.

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