The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-23

On the 18th of November, 1914, at 8
o'clock in the evening, passers.by on
the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, Paris,
heard loud cries of ''help!' and ''mur-
der ~ from room on the third floor of
house No. II. Before the persons so
alarmed could ascend the stairs, or even
the neighbors nearest the room whence
the cries proceeded could answer the
summons, a woman was seen staggering
down the stairs. With both hands she
pressed towel to her throat, essaying
to stop the torrent of blood which, we'll.
ing from a CHASTITY wound in her neck,
streamed through between her fingers
and poured down the front of her dress.
"Help! help! I am dying" she
cried, in choking voice, tottering as
she spoke: and with one hand clutching
vaguely in the air.
"Mon Dieu!'' exclaimed porter, who
was the first to recognize her, ut is the
beautiful Holland girl
"Who has done this to you?'' de.
manded dozen voices of her at once.
s'Scissors, scissors" she feebly gasped,
corsets. the pressure Of which seemed to
stiae her. Those were her last words.
Before her request could be complied
with, she fell into the arms ofthose near
est her and was dead. "The beautiful Hol-
land girl" was the sobriquet by which
Cornelie K@rsmaker, very pretty young
cyprian, was popularity known. She had
rooms in the house where her existence
thus tragically ended, and to them her
poor mangled body was carried. There
were counted upon her no less than seven
toen deep gashes, made apparently by a
sharp knife with rounded point, but
the one fatal wound was that in her
throat, which had severed the iugular
vein.
The police were quickly present to note
every detail which might be OF service in
tracking the assassin, but found little or
nothing in their searching examination
to afford clew. The knife with which
the deadly assault had been made was
picked up in one corner Of the room. It
was common pocket knife, the large blade
of which had rounded point. Blood
covered it, but there was nothing upon 1t
to indicate to whom it had belonged. The
girls bed was scarcely rumpled, but upon
it's surface was the imprint of bloody
hand, and crimson spots flecked it where
the life-current of the girl had spouted
up against mirror at the back Of the
bed, and spattered back upon the spread.
Evidently the attack had been made upon
her while she was lying down. Evidence of
struggle were strangely lacking. A lit
tie tnple, covered with articles of porce-
lain and glass, stood near the bed, and
did not seem to have been in the slightest
degree disturbed.
While these investigations were being
made, great excitement was created in
the Cafe de Europe, in the Boulevard
du Temple, long distance from the Rue
Nueve des Petitus Champs, by the ap-
appearance there of a young captain Of
grenadiers. Antoine Series de Saint
Clair. who was frequenter of that place.
He came in running, pale, with blood up.
on his face and hands, and with his dress
disordered, In answer to the hurried
and excited questions of those who clus-
tered about him, he told q strange story.
He said that he had yielded to the so.
licitations of one of the women of gallant.
nv who at that time encountered the gal
leries of the Palias Royal, and had &C.
companicd her to her room, the location
of which, however he did not note.
Upon arriving there, he was surprised to
find in her chamber two sturdy, villain.
ous.looking ruffians, whose appearance
was so sinister as to cause him much ap.
prehension. The woman however did
not appear to notice them, and, cody
taking off her hat proceeded to disrobe.
While he was endeavoring to invent some
excuse for retreat, tbs woman spoke to