Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-07
BILLOIRS CRIME.
Tho latest Partisan Horror and
How iI was dve1ged.

Tho Latest ParisIan Horror and
How Is was dvenged.
Billoir, the last Blue Ribbon
murderer of Paris, has been gull
lotined, and left his snuff.box as a
legacy to Marshal MacMahon.
His crime was committed No
vember 2, 1876, and its victim was
one Marie LIE Manach, his mistress,
with whom he lived at 81 Rue des
Trois Freres. His name was Perre-
Jules, and he was the survivor of
twin brothers, born at Blecourt.
near Cambria, January 20, 1919.
He had served in the army and had
small pension, with the decora-
ton of Italy and the military medal.
On the Sth of November part of
the trunk of woman was found
floating in the Seine; other pieces
were subsequently, discovered, show
ing that some female had been cut
to pieces with a strong and skillful
hand. The authorities put the
pieces Of the head and bust TO-
gether, and took cast from which
was made a wax figure, which was
painted and fitted with hair of the
color and length of the few locks
found on the skull, and eyes of the
hue of those Of the corpse. Before
th effigy at the morgue over 100,-
600 persons passed, and 1t
was positively identified as
the counterfeit presentment of
over 100 missing women! Several
times the police got on scents they
fancicd warm, and though they
failed to find the murderer they al
ways found the missing woman, or
obtained information Of her, in one
case tracking suspected party to
Brussels and back. At last they
hit on the right clue and arrested
Bllloir, who stubbornly denied his
crime, even after the hair and part
of the intestines Of the woman had
been found in the vault of his
house. According to the approved
French method, be was subjected to
the most rigorous questioning and
confronted with the numerous con-
tradictions his story developed, till
finally he took refuge in silence,
having fits of prostration and ap-
parent contrition. 1t was during
one of these that M. Jacob, the
chief of the detective force, OBJ
tanned his confession, and then in
duced him to make it to the Judge
d'instruction, though the prisoner
proposed to delay doing SO for a
lew days. "Come," said he, cease
your conscience, like a good fellow;
you will sleep more soundly. You
will be better pleased with yourself
Come, now, out with it."
The confession was that on the
I'd Of November Marie La Manach
went to a registry office, meaning
to go to service. There she met a
friend with whom she drank, and
returning under the influence of
liquor to their room, while undress-
ing, broke a gilt glass by which he
set great store. In his passion, as
she stopped to pick up the pieces,
he kicked her in the body, killing
her, but unintentionally. He lay
beside the body that night, and
next day, at three o'clock, resolved
to get rid of it. Stripping the
body, he extended it on a layer of
sawdust and cut it to pieo,s with a
razor, using a cold-ohisel and ham,
mer to break the backbone. Then
tying the arms around the bust,
and the legs together so as to make
symmetrical parcels, he wrapped
each Of the pieces in paper and a
petticoat, covered them with a
waterproof, corded the packages
neatly, and carrying them one by
one to the Seine at Oliohy,
cast them in. The stomach and
entrails we're placed in a basin
and thrown into the vault; the
bloody instruments were thrown
into the sewer. Subsequently Billoir
amended this story, when DR.. Ber-
geron declared that the remains
could not have been in the water
more than twenty-four hours, and
said he had kept the body in his
room till the 9th. AS the lines of