Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-07
LHOMME FEMME.

People who see Paris only through the
highly colored and doubly magnifying
lenses Of French novels or sensational news
paper dispatches have an idea Of that city
which can only be expressed by the world
renowned adjective that covers everything
of a horribly spicy, ~scandalOus nature
Partisan.
1t is generally supposed that murders and
atIocious scandals are as numerous and
prevalent IN Paris as are street fights and
h~airpuling matches in the slums Of New
York. This is not so as regards murders.
London is ahead of Paris in this respect,
and indeed the latter city will compare
favorably-barr;ng social scandals-with
our great American cities.
But when Paris does have a murder it is
generally Borgian in its CHASTITY enOrmiles.
Such a one was brought to light in the AS
size Court Of the Seine, last "Wednesday,
and, in the words of the dispatch, the trial
brings to light details Of such a revolving
and Iepugnant nature that it is impossible
10 nsrrste them
An exotic individual named Mielle, alias
EHomme femme, alias La Crosse Mana
was tried for the murder of q well to do
poultry merchant named LeOon.
The evidence shows that Mielle and
Lebon entered the formers apartment at
No. % Rae De Lyon. Shortly atterwsrd
the concierge heard the voice of man cry
NJ, Help, help "A I assassin "Au
secoursf A body vas heard falling with a
heavy tbud; then came a sort Of death
rattle. In reply to a pO!iceman's knocks,
MielIe opened the door of his apartment,
and with a pleasant smile, said: MY dear
friend, | Rave Just had a little family quar-
rel. We are all liable to such quarrels, and
and mine is now happily ended
Soon after Nine. Mielle entered the room
and seeing her husband covered with blood
and his shirt torn to sbreds, asked, lyon
devil, what have you been doing now2
Mielle said, "a friend of mine came to see
me and got drunk and tried to jump out Of
the window. To prevent a catastrophe /
had to fight him. Hence the debris"
Mielle then locked his wife in her bed
room and was heard working with carpeu-
tiers tools for several hours. Nell. then
disappeared. A long black trunk was also
removed from bis rooms at the same time.
1t now appears that Mielle, while his wife
was locked up in her bedroom, had sawn
the body Of his victim into about twenty.
sections and packed them into a long black
trunk, which he threw into the Seine on
April 29.
Mielle was discovered BY gendarmes at
BsIsur-Aube. He plunged into the river
and swan across to the other bank. The
gendarms did the same, but Nellie was a
good swimmer and distanced his pursuers.
After an exciting mile chase over fences
and bitches he was finally captured. Lee
bon's watch, jewelry and money were found
in Mielle's pocket.
This happened last April On May 9 a
ssilOr 6shed out of the Seine, near the statue
of Henri Quatre, the upper part Of q mans
body, the vertebrsl column bearing marks
Of having been severed BY q carpenters
saw. Next day another sailor discovered
near the same place q mans head. Ten
days after 3 pair Of thighs, then 3 pair of
feet and a pair Of arms were found floating
in the Seine, all these sections bearing the
marks Of having been separated BY means
Of q saw. These fragments Of the corpse,
when put together, enabled the police to
identify them as the remains Of Lebon, the
poultry merchant.