Barbour County index., 1885-03-20
CO., KANSAS. MARCH 20. 1885
VERY FRgNcHX.
An Extraordinary Murder Case In Paris.
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Paris is ct present stirred to its depths
by the revelations made respecting the
career of Pei, the poisoner of Montreuil.
Eel Is now at Mazas, OIL a charge OF hav-
ing made away with his servant, q woman
named Marie Boehmer. He is also charged
with having poisoned his first wife. NJ.
kuehn, the chief of the investigation de-
partment, is busily engaged at Montreuil
IN following up any clues which may bring
the murder Of the servant home to the ac-
cused- Two boxes which belonged to the
missing woman were found to contain a
napkin, which bore the imprint Of a blood
stained kEife. large dinner knife has
come to light, supposed to be the instru-
ment with which Pei cat the flesh or the
bones of his victim before the burning of
1t by some of the chemical processes in
which he is an adept. 1t is thought tha.
the victims remains were placed in the
closet, as Pei had been observed to make fire.
quent visits there on three successivedays in
July last. This is somewhat borne out by
the fact that when the cosspools were
drained to-day portions of human intes-
tines were found.
Pei is cloczmaker by trade, and was
married IN 1880 to young woman named
Buffereau, employed in a shop near the
Champs Elysees. Two months after the
marriage Pe's wife died in intense agony.
She was hastily buried in the Montmartre
Cemetery, but her remains are about to be
exhumed by order OF the Procureur of the
republic.
year afterward Pei married Mile. de
Murot. who is still alive. Pei denied that
he had been married to his first wife, but
III. kuehn confronted him with his brother
in-law, and he then admitted the mar
riage.
M. Kuehn has made minute examina-
tion With a microscope of Pei's house at
Montreuil, and In the interstices of the
floor has found living organisms such as
exist only in putrefying blood. When Pei
arrived in Mo2treuil from Nanterre, where
he ran away from his second wife and his
creditors in July last, he was accompanied
by the servant Marie Boehmer, who, it is
said, was formerly lay sister in a convent
and afterward a milkseller in the Rue st.
Denis. She intrusted large share of her
savings to the care of Pei, and about three
months ago suddenly disappeared.
Pei, in answer to various inquiries, said
he had sent her to the hospital. The reiSh-
bors, however, assert that one night, about
the time of Boehmer's disappearance, a
great fire was visible in Pel's house, and
that the air around was infected by an Of
fensive odor. In an adjacent sewer soce
human hair has lately been discovered, and
it is in this direction, as well as in the
closet, that VI. Kuehn made his principal
Investigations to-day. Pei viii probably
he brought face to face with his second
wife tomorrow.
1t is not long since the mother OF the al
legged poisoner was killed by an electric
battery made by her son. Pei is in very
respondent condition at Mazas, and has
not partaken of much food during the past
two days. A naoUtoa, or associate, has
been placed with him, as it was feared that
he was about TO commit suicide, and pos
sibly the accused clock-maxer may make
some statement to this person.