The blade was strong and sharp as a razor.
The man worked rapidly and with the greatest care.
When he had finally cut the body into as small pieces as possible,
he replaced the knife in its sheath, washed his hands, and went out
of the bathroom and downstairs to the lower hall. The sailor
seemed perfectly familiar with the house. By a side door he passed
into the cellar. There he lighted the gas, opened one of the wine
cases, and, taking up all the bottles that he could conveniently
carry, returned to the bathroom. There he poured the contents into
the tub on the dismembered body, and then returned to the cellar
with the empty bottles, which he replaced in the wine cases. This
he continued to do until all the cases but one were emptied and the
bath tub was more than half full of liquid. This liquid was
sulphuric acid.
When the sailor returned to the cellar with the last empty wine
bottles, he opened the fifth case, which really contained wine,
took some of it out, and poured a little into each of the empty
bottles in order to remove any possible odor of the sulphuric acid.
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