The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-04-12
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BUTCHER BHLOTR.


i've Scienee.
PARss, MARCH l6 KThe trial OF the
man named Bnioir, which began on
W'ednesday. te,4ninated Yesterday even
.ing, and the confessed assassin was
Sentenced 70 the eaillotins. LIN this af-
fair-that of +" the woman cut in pieces"
the police showed themselves worthy
of all praise; and demonstrated that the
traditions Of Vidocq are not Eeht5ireF
lost. As told you some time ago, the
task xas.zbyalo means aEaaeassaanesufer'
129 women, about thirty-Seven or thirty
eight years Of age, were reported as
missing. Each caselwas followed out
separately, and the police of a dozen
large towns were engaged in The several
inquiries. Some curious revelations fol-
lowed. Two women who had left theT
homes Awho had been recognized in the
mutilated remains by their families
were found living in secret within a dozen
blocks of their own houses. The strong
est Of presumptiYe evidence, was found
against a cobbler, all his neighbors
recognizing his wife in the form Of Marie
lie Manach. A few days before the dis
eovery he had left Paris and was traced
to Belgium. He had gone there without
his wife. From there he was followed
to Luxembourg, where he had gone -
look after small legacy, and it was said
there that he had intimated to old
friends, that he had got rid of his wife.
He had jokingly said that " her hash had
been settled, or something of the kind,
and what could this mean but murder?
With great skill the police traced the
eObbler from Luxembourg back to Paris,
and from there to Marseilles. He was
found in the latter city, and an orderfo for
his arrest was obtained When the au-
thoIities went to the shop that he hatl
/ recently purchased, they found the cob
bier and his wife laughing together until
tears were streaming down their checks,
and as happy pair as could be found
in all France. One afteranetherthe 1 %
missing women were traced out, and all
were found, living or dead, save ono.
That one was. Marie lie Manach, .f--
THE MISTRESS OF. BrLL0IR,
then under arrest. NJ. Jacob, the clever
commissaire de police, found the evil
dence against him too strong to war
rant his release, but would not begin
proceedings against him until he had
traced out the other mysteries. When
he no longer had doubt, he ordered
the vaults examined in the house where
BiIloir lived, and there found a portion
of the iutestines and hair of the MUIR
dered woman. In the hair was 1eai
of thyme and two leaves of laurel, and
in the cupboard used by Billoir the
shelves were strewn with these leaves.
There was no reasonable doubt, there
fore, that Billion had thrown the hair
into the cupboard after cutting it off.
A number of small details like this. en-
abled NJ. Jacob to complete his story OF
the murder, and when he was ready he
told it to the accused. The assassin
found that he had been dA -
/ CAUGHT IN THE MESITES p
of Justice, and was intelligent enough to
know that there was only one way OF
saving his head; he had to convince the
jury that the crime was committed with
out reconciliation and in a fit of passion.
His story was that Marie lie Manach
had come home half drunk on the even
inc of the ID of December; that he had
reproached her for her conduct; that
when she was changing her clothes she
threw down a china cupwhich was very
precious to him; then he turned, and IN
his wrath gave her a kick in the stOm-
ach. She fell unconscious, according to
his version. Then he tried to restore
her, but found she was dead. He slept
upon the bed beside her that night, OF
rather reposed there while revolving
plans in his mind for getting rid of the
body. He finally pitched upon the plan
of cutting it into pieces and throwing ii
into the Seine On the Sth his work
was completed. lie had carried the
parts at two trips, and had attached
stones to the packages in. order to make
them sink. That night the level of the
] Seine sank very nearly two feet, and in
the morning the largest of the packages
was floating SO near the surface OF the
water that it could be SEEN TWAS fish
ed out in short time and -,-.. s.lT
THE HORRIBLE CRIME DISCOVERED. ,
This is the story told by. Billoir, but
/ Justice contended that it was not cor
rect. In the first place DR.. Bergeron,
I speaking in the name of science, de-
clared that the bodyeould not have been
I in the water over twenty-fOur hours.
When this was told to Billoir he con-
fessed that he had kept the body in his
room from the third to the night of the
sixth. Dir. Bergeron declares that this
is also impossible, and that the murder
must have been committed on the latter
| night. Furthermore, he declared that
Marie lie Manach had been butchered
like pig, and not cut in pieces after
! death. Not only did the expression of
\ the features show lines of terror not seen
in eases of death caused by syncope, but
every drop of blood Was, drained out of
the vessels, leaving the flesh perfectly
white. There were
| FINGER-MARKs UPON THE MOUTH AND
! -tIr D THROAT, ia 7H-t
| hotr.,,-i,,or the fnct fhat q sfr11Uple eIlsled