Also known as a brass pestle, the pestle, a pestle from the mortar, that pestle, the same pestle.
The brass pestle is the small heavy object Dmitri carries from Fenya's kitchen into the night. In the garden, it is in his hand when Grigory catches him at the fence. Dmitri drops it near the fallen servant before running back toward Widow Morozov's house.
IX-I. The Beginning Of Perhotin’s Official Career
Fenya tells Perhotin that Dmitri snatched the pestle from the mortar before rushing away and no longer had it when he returned with blood on him. Her account gives the object a clear path from the kitchen to the garden.
IX-II. The Alarm
The authorities find the pestle on the garden path after discovering Fyodor Pavlovitch's death and Grigory's injury. It is treated as the visible weapon connecting the two scenes.
XII-I. The Fatal Day
At trial, the pestle is displayed among the material proofs. It stands beside the blood-stained clothes, handkerchief, pistol, and torn envelope.
XII-VII. An Historical Survey
The prosecutor argues that Dmitri took the pestle knowingly as a ready weapon. In his reconstruction, the ordinary kitchen object becomes part of a prepared movement toward murder.
XII-XII. And There Was No Murder Either
The defense answers that the pestle was a chance object caught up because it lay in sight. If it had been put away, Fetyukovitch argues, Dmitri would have run out empty-handed.
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