Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-22
AN ATRoCIoUs CRIME.
One of the Most DiabolicaI Deeds IN tt
annals of Crime,


Paris Dispatch to London Times.
The details of crime of extraordinary
atrocity was revealed to the public to-day at
the court of assizes of the Seine, where the
trial of the three accused persons began this
forenoon. On the oath of March last a
woman named Gillet, who gained her live
lihood by selling milk in the morning and
working as charwoman during the day,
suddenly disappeared. Her friends informed
the police of the occurrence, and the dwell
ling of the missing woman was searched.
Some EGO in rentes and gold were found
concealed, but, according to the friends of
Madame Gillet, she possessed a capital of
about 1920, of which no trace was obtained.
About the same time another mystery was
day as the woman Gillet disappeared two
young men hired a furnished room in the
Rue Poliveau, one of them signing himself
"Emile Gerard, aged 26 years, STUDENT and
paying weeks rent in advance. One of
them came back early next morning
with parcel, and went away again, taking
with him the key of a cupboard in the room
in which he had deposited the parcel. AS
neither of the young men returned again,
after the time for which they had hired the
room had expired the proprietress of the
house opened the cupboard and discovered
that the parcel contained the arms and legs
of a human body wrapped up in old shirts
bearing the initials 81. NJ The limbs
were those of woman, and bore traces of
struggle, which must have shortly preceded
death; while the cutting had evidently been
performed by some one who knew little of
anatomy. This was the story which was
laid before the public three months ago.
The police became at once convinced that
the limbs were those of the missing woman,
Gillet, and that the purpose of the murderers
was to rob her of her money, of which no
trace had till then been found on the prem
ises. Her memoranda of purchases were,
however, afterwards discovered, and some
of the numbers of the securities she
had bought were traced to mon
ey-changers, who had received them from an
agent de change named Barre, who, it was
ascertained, had just before been recon-
mended to her as good medium for her in
vestments. Barre was apprehended and his
apartments searched. In them were found
shirts bearing The initials 81. NJ and iden-
tical with those in which the limbs found in
the Rue Poliveau were wrapped up. Barre,
confronted with these other proofs, confess
ed that he had murdered the woman Gillet,
and mentioned the name of an accomplice.
Lebiez, a student of medicine, who was at
once likewise apprehended, as well as the
mistress of Barre, Leontine Morris or Lepin,
whose initials were those on the shirts in
question. From their confessions and
further evidence, it appears that Barre and
Lebiez received a good education at the
College of Anglers, and are the sons
of very respectable residents in that
town. They were both of exceedingly
loose habits and continually in pecuniary
difficulties. Barre came to Paris to prepare
himself for admission as notary, but from
gambling occasionally on the Bourse he
came to devote himself entirely to it, and set
up eventually money agency. Lebiez, a
medical student in Paris, of equally disco
Lutte habits, was his bosom associate. The
woman Gillet having employed Barre as her
exchange agent, the latter learnt that she
was in possession of some wealth, and he
out of their immediate difficulties by muir
dering her and stealing her property. Their
project was carried cut on the 23d of March.
Barre, passing the victim at her stand, asked
her to bring some milk at once to his apart
ment. A box had been purchased for her
body, and when she arrived in his room
Barre struck her on the head with ham
mer, while Lebiez stabbed her. Lebiez then
cut up the body, as it would not all go into
the box, and disposed Of the rest in the way
already described. The box was taken to
the station of the Orleans railway as luggage,
Barre taking ticket for Mans, which he
did not use. Immediately after the murder,
Barre went to Madam Gillet's apartment
with the key he found in her pocket and OBJ
tanned possession of the greater part of her
securities This is the story as told by the
Gcte daccusation. The woman Lepin is
also being tried for knowingly receiving sto-
len goods.