The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-08
DoNALDsoNy1LLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1882

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OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.
Matters and Things Across the Big Pond,
as they Appear to Our Correspondent.
PARIS, FRANCE, June Is, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Not long ago some workmen, digging
gravel beside the Seine, at Chatou, near
Paris, noticed strange object drifting
along the bottom Of the river. They
fished it out with considerable difficulty,
for the current runs strong there, and
the odd-looking thing once or twice had
nearly rolled off into the deep water.
When brought to land it proved to be a
very extraordinary and dreadful trou-
raille indeed, for it was the corpse of a
young man, who had evidently met his
! death by the foulest means. His body,
which bore many wounds and bruises,
was doubled over, trussed round with
some thirty feet of lead piping; his lips
had been pinned together by woman's
black-headed shawl pin, and dinner
napkin was drawn over his face and
knotted behind the neck. There was no
clue to his identity, for tho clothes of
tie victim had all been stripped away,
and the mark picked out from the nap
kin. In PWis, however, tho police al
ways COMMAND two great means of dis
covery-one the Morgue, and the right
OF inter'ogating suspected people. Those
who miss relations or friends know
where to go in the French capital. A
Young chemist named Aubert had disap-
peared since May 18th, from his shop OH
the Boulevard Malesherber, and on the
next day Madame Barley, his sister, saw
and recognized his remains on slab of
the Morgne. They were the same as had
been fishel out Of the Seine at Cllatou,
and the sister, questioned eagerly by the
police, was able to tell them that NJ.
Anbert had formed an illicit intimacy
with one Madame Feneyron, wife of
retired chemist to whom he had been
formerly apprenticed. She believed that
her brother had an appointment with his
mistress OH the very night when he disap
peared, and this intelligence was empha-
sized by the receipt of all anonymous
letter, bidding the officers of justice ap-
ply to Madame Feueyron, Boulevard
St. Cyr, if they wished to know
who were the perpetrators of the crime.
The Chief of Police, NJ. Mari, himself re-
paired to the abode of this person, fur
llished with all such intimate particulars
as the French detective system CON-
mands, and before many minutes had
elapsed the surprised and affrighted
woman had denounced her husband and
his brother to him as the murderers
These two were promptly arrested,
though kept apart from the wife; and
strictly interrogatea, they denied their
guilt. When, however, they were taken
to Chatou and led through the village,
people there recognized them as having
visited u cottage near the bridge, and,
upon the police going thither, an old
woman, the landlady, avowed that the
two men with woman had been in-
stalled with her for u week. These facts |
were commanding but simple, and illus
trate rather the intelligence than the
sagaeity Of the Paris police; for the
scent was breast high after the iden-
urged by remorse or despair, now conf |
pleted her confession with the following |
statement: The murdered man had been !
her lover, and her husband had become
aware Of her infdelity. The connection
was then interrupted, but, determined
upon exacting vengeance, her husband
had threatened to hill her unless she
would place her paramour in his power.
His threats drove her to consent to lay |
a trap for the gallant. The cottage at |
Chatou was taken, the husband secured
the help of his brother, and the wife
lured her lover to Ills doom. On the
evening of the 18th of May, NJ. Anbert
arrived at the cottage according to ap
and found Madame Feneyron
there, but was Immediately strnck down
with blows from hammer and walking
stick sword, his body being flung into
The Seine loaded with lead, as has been
described. c.. A S.