One of our Crime Stories...

It was a Dark Night…

“It was a dark night, it was raining, and I knew that it wasn’t a night like the others. Something in me, continued to say, that I hadn’t hope. I saw something that I hadn’t to see, and now he is looking for me…he has almost found me…no one can help me…”

These are the last words, that Iason Pachi, an old man with Greek origins had written in his diary, before to being murdered. But now, if the court will give me the consent, and this assembly will listen to me, with God’s help, I’ll tell you his story:

Mr.Pachi, had a little antique shop on the 20^th road to the harbour of St.jhon. He was a quiet man with no preoccupations or enemies who really loved his traditions and origins. He spent all his days in his shop, and he took care of it like if was his house, his Greek. A night, like he wrote, a suspected man, entered his shop and after a long negotiation, sold him a little box with showed a sun, and a ring of glass in the middle of it. After that, the man run out of the shop… and suddenly a big noise broke the silence: Mr.Pachi, went out of the shop and found the corpse of the man full of blood in the middle of the road. In that moment started to rain and Mr.Pachi, come back to his shop. He couldn’t believe at his eyes, but as soon as he turned his face, to see again the corpse, it wasn’t there. Mr.Pachi closed his eyes to tried to calm himself, than decided to go to bed. But that night he couldn’t sleep, the last strange words of that man continued to round in his mind: ”Run to the police and remember “Elias has the truth…the Greek is the key” …

The diary finishes here…than, in that night, Iason Pachi was murdered. But I’m sure that he knew who was the killer, because that suspected man tried to say to him it, with these words:” “Elias has the truth…the Greek is the key” and I know, that Mr.Pachi understood it, because of his traditions. Sounds strange?! I’ve passed a night to think about it, and now I’ve the solutions. First, we have to divide the phrase in two parts, so we’ll have :

1)”Elias has the truth…” and

2)”the Greek is the key…”

Now we have to analyze the first: the sense is not difficult, the unique strange word is “Elias”, but to understand the true sense of it let’s go on to the second part: “the Greek is the key…” I couldn’t understand immediately, but than, I’ve analyzed again the first, above all the word “Elias”…I’ve made lot of internet search about the Greek’s language, and suddenly I’ve understand. The suspected man, knew that a man wanted to kill him, he knew exactly who was him, and he knew he hadn’t hope, so he placed one’s hopes in Mr.Pachi and he tried to say, indirectly, the name of the killer with a confuse phrase, trusting in Mr.Pachi’s sense of patriotism. In fact, if we analyze the word “Elias” and we substitute the letter “a” with the letter “o”, we obtain “Elios”, that means “sun”. And I’m sure that it has some correlation with the little box that the man gave to Iason Pachi and that we have here. Do you remember?! It has a little sun showed on it. Now with the consent of the court, I’ll broke the little ring of glass in the middle of the sun…and with the God’s help…Yes!!! There is a piece of paper: “the killer is Kerry Harrison, the boss of an illegal commerce with the Chinese’s Mafia. I’m j. Lee Harold, a private detective and I’m sorry about the problems I’ve given to you, please say to the police the truth”

Ladies and Gentleman, Court all, now we know the truth and now we know that Mr.Pachi ,an unlucky man dead for an unfair cause, will rest in peace knowing that the justice will win also for him.

Francesco Viliani

a special guest...for a crime story!

One of your school mates has written the following "crime story".
Waiting for your comments....

OWiNG TO LOVE

The house was old and while I was looking at it, the weather changed …

There was thunders and dense rain … But I remembered, I knew the truth.
Everything seemed terrifying during a dark evening when she went to the house after her work.

She was a pretty young girl, she was sixteen and she was sweet, calm and gracious. She was in love … her heart belonged to Jack, the greengrocer’s son, they had fallen in love. The relationship was so beautiful, so childlike, but the faith reserved them a bad end.

My daughter was poor but she was so beautiful that two weeks later, she married Lord Chester. My wife and I were proud about this marriage, because this event permitted us good food and a comfortable bed.

Our daughter didn’t to marry him … She wanted to go away with Jack because she loved him ……

After a week at the process there were a lot of people and we were with Jack and Lord Chester. At the beginning the Court asked Lord Chester where he was the evening when she was killed …

There were four witnesses that declared that the Lord was in a restaurant with them.

Immediately the Court asked me and my wife the same question and my wife was pale, she was crying …

I stood up and I told …

After my words, my wife shook nervously … So, the police put me in prison and there, I stayed for twenty long years without any visit.

But I knew … Those evenings I listened at my daughter’s screams …

I remembered that my wife’s parents forced her to married me. I loved her, but she didn’t. My wife didn’t want the same luck for her daughter.

So, she killed her …

She killed my only daughter and I took the blame for my wife …!

I loved her, now… I didn’t have anything

Laura Terzo 2C

something about the first english theatres

During our last lesson on English Literature we discussed about the origin of the theatre in England, the first form of Medieval Drama as the Miracle plays that, from the 10th to the 16th century, were mainly performed on movable stage wagons called pageants.

Here's one illustration:

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La classe IIIB!

Our Xmas story!

At Christmas the class had to read the story "The Case for the Defence" by Graham Greene, one of the most widely read English novelist and short story writer of the 20th-century who was born in 1904 and died in 1991.


Some students have imagined to be reporters for the school's magazine and have written their own articles.
One of them is Francesco Viliani

A STRANGE CASE, A STRANGE MURDER

One dead, four witnesses and a killer: these are the fundamental elements that go around this strange case. It was a long trial that finished with no sentences or guilty.

In Northwood Street it was found a corpse of a woman, but also after a long questioning, the suspected killer was acquitted for lack of evidence. Just a waste of time!!!

But the most strange thing is that at the end of the trial, the suspected man had been pushed onto the street while a bus was passing by, and he died.

Justice?! Destiny?! One thing is sure: all the four witnesses will not sleep easy.

Francesco Viliani

The Queen's Speech!

Listen to the Queen's message to the Nation.

Her Majesty speaks of the importance of friends and family and remembers members of the Armed Forces serving overseas at Christmas.
Visit the Royal Channel

Xmas Greetings!

My Best Wishes to everybody!

ilaria salvadori