At about three o’clock in the morning,people were woken up by a number of terrible screams.The screams came from the fourth floor of a house,which belongs to Matine and her daughter Limy.
Eight or ten of the neighbours and two policemen came to the house soon.There was no answer to their knocking.So they broke down the door.Everything in the house was in order.Nothing was broken.All the furniture(家具)was very clean and in the place where they used to be.It seemed that nothing strange had happened.The neighbours hurried from room to room but found nothing until they came to a large room at the back of the house on the fourth floor.The room was locked,and no one could open the door.So they broke the door open,only to see something frightening and surprising in the room.
Chairs and tables were broken and lay in pieces everywhere.A small box was found under the bed.It was open and there were only a few old letters in it.All the neighbours knew that there should be many jewels(珠宝)in it,because Limy liked showing them the jewels very much.They found the body of the daughter on the bed.The body was still warm.There were deep cuts on the face.and around the neck there were wounds(伤口)and marks of fingers.
The policemen examed all the other rooms,and then went down into the small yard at the back of the house.There they found the dead body of Maine.There were terrible wounds all over the body.
Until now,the police say,there ale no answers to the terrible mystery