Tell-Tale Heart Response

Our narrator, whom we must simply call narrator is a mentally disturbed person with a problem with another man's eye.  Yeah I didn't really trust him completely either.  But through his eyes we see into the head, and actions of a madman.  And like the other readers of Poe throughout the years we accept that yes the eye needs to die and if the old man goes with it  then so be it.  And we also accept that the ticking noise the narrator hears is the old man's heart, beating as if to make the narrator reveal his guilt.

However if we saw perhaps through the eyes of one of the police men who came to investigate the scream that rose from the house of the old man, so very late at night.  We might get a very different view of the narrators leave taking  from his senses.  Or the final confession.  We might also see the flaw that let him converse with his partner through the shrieking, swearing, chair mangling  reveal of the body. 

We had been lead through the house and it seemed that the man had spoken true.  There was no body, no missing gold, not even a drop of blood on the floor.  So when the man left the room to retrieve something and my partner turned to me I though it was merely to warn me, as he had before, that not all cases were going to be that easy.  But instead in his soft, rumbling voice he said "I've seen this before, this man is either truthful  or mad, and so we must stay as long as it takes to find out which."  And when I tried to protest the door opened and the man returned and brought with him three chairs.  He placed the first in a rather specific place and the remaining two facing that one.  We spoke of trifles for a while.  Then after some time the man bolted up and began to scream, swear, and beat at the floor with his chair.  Looking over at my partner I saw that he smiled.  I got the message and continued our amiable dialog until the man tore up the floor boards shouting "Villains! Dissemble no more!  I admit the deed!"  He sobbed as we clapped the irons on him and lead him to the prison to await his trial for murder.