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r, the secret of the pledge (the piece of wood with a strip of metal) which was found in the murdered woman's hand. he described minutely how he had taken her keys, what they were like, as well as the chest and its contents; he explained the mystery of lizaveta's murder; described how koch and, after him, the student knocked, and repeated all they had said to one another; how he afterwards had run downstairs and heard nikolay and dmitri shouting; how he had hidden in the empty flat and afterwards gone home. he ended by indicating the stone in the yard off the voznesensky prospect under which the purse and the trinkets were found. the whole thing, in fact, was perfectly clear. the lawyers and the judges were very much struck, among other things, by the fact that he had hidden the trinkets and the purse under a stone, without making use of them, and that, what was more, he did not now remember what the trinkets were like, or even how many there were. the fact that he had never opened the purse and did not even know how much was in it seemed incredible. there turned out to be in the purse three hundred and seventeen roubles and sixty copecks. from being so long under the stone, some of the most valuable notes lying uppermost had suffered from the damp. they were a long while trying to discover why the accused man should tell a lie about this, when about everything else he had made a truthful and straightforward confession. finally some of the lawyers more versed in psychology admitted that it was possible he had really not looked into the purse, and so didn't know what was in it when he hid it under the stone. but they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain. this fell in with the most recent fashionable theory of temporary insanity, so often applied in our days in criminal cases. moreover raskolnikov's hypochondriacal condition was proved by many witnes
