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VERY FRENCRY.
An Extraordinary Murder Case in Paris.
TLondon Telegraph

LONDON telegraph
Paris is at present stirred to its depths
" the revelations made respecting the
areer of Pei, the poisoner of Montreuil.
Pei is now at Mazas, on a charge of hav-
ng made away with his servant, woman
famed Marie Boehmer. He is also charged 1
With having poisoned his first wife. N.
Auehn, the chief of the investigation de- |
partment, is busily engaged at Montreun |
n following up any clues which may bring /
the murder Of the servant home to the &C
cused- Two boxes which belonged TO the
missing woman were found TO contain
napkin, which bore the imprint Of a blood
stained knife. large dinner knife has
come to light, supposed to be the instru-
ment with which Pei cut the flesh of the
bones of his victim before the burning Of
1t by some of the chemical processes in
which he IL an adept. It is thought that
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 cesspools were
drained to-day portions of human lntes-
tines were found.
Pei is clockmaker 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 Pel'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.
A year afterward Pei married Mile. de
Murat, who is still alive. Pei denied that
he had been married to his first wife, but
NJ. Kuehn confronted him with his brother
tod fkxa oil
riage.
M. Kuehn has made minute examIna-
ton with microscope of PePs 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 Montreuil from Nanterre, where
ne 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 milkseller in the Rue st.
Denis. She intrusted a 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 neigh
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
fensiye odor. In an adjacent sewer some
human hair has lately been discovered, and
it is in this direction, well as in the
closet, that NJ. Kuehn made his principal
Investigations to-day. Pei will probably
be 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 mOutOn, or associate, has
been placed with him, as it was feared thai
he was about to commit suicide, and pos
sibly the accused clock-maSer may make
some statement to this person.
One of the most CHASTITY sights in Munich
is to be witnessed in the anatomical
Museum, on SchilIer-strasse. 1t consists
of the heads of persons who have beer
euilIotined in Bavaria for a good many
years back.
I dropped into the museum yesterday anC
paid for M prurient curiosity by the los
of my appetite for the rest of the day. Thu
museum contains good many attractions
but these heads are the great drawing
card. Nothing is said about them IN tn
yuide-books, and the average tours
goes and comes without the slightest sus
picion that so remarkable spectacle i
to be seen for a very small fee. The head
in question are just inside of the door, t
the right as you enter. They are inclose'
rows of glass jars filled with alcohol
There are seven in single row which ar
made more conspicuous than the rest, 70
the reason, suppose, that they are souve
Mrs of criminals who attempted som
extraordinarily audacious thing, an
therefore became especially cele
brated. The eyes were all closed, and tn
faces expressionless. l looked in vain fO
ANYTHING that spoke still, by facial dis
tortion, the agony of dread which mus
have inspired the victim as he approache
the instrument of his death. Not fe'
wore mustaches, but none boards; frol
which infer that it is customary to shaw
the chin before execution. The eyes {
overha the heads had been cut out.
An examination of the places where tn
neck had been severed revealed sklIf'
work on the part of the machine as rul
Some were as neatly cut as any apple tA'
Won have to divide with friend. Oh
head had evidently belonged to ma
with short neck, as the amputatlon hs
taken place so close to the chin as TO aImo
pare off its under surface. A few 1ecks wei
very ragged where the knife had struc
az though the machine had bungled-n
cessitating more than one stroke. II
heads of prisoners executed in Bavaria =
thus preserved, for the warning of tho
4ho are disposed to be similarly lawIes
and the bodies are turned over to the me-
icaI students for dissection.
The anatomical collection contains
MANY other remarkable attractions. The
were shelves loaded down with skulls al
dried heads. The various organs OF G
body were preserved according to sever
methods, some specimens being preserv
in alcohol, others dried, picked, ETC. L
odor was by no means savory, or else II
IMAGINATION is too vivid. There were gla
tanks filed with alcohol containing near
f,ll length sections of the body, sawed al
snlit so as to illustrate the functions OF
the myriad organs. There were dried DO
les intact, hung up as skeletons are usual
hung. There were also all sorts of maIfe
nations and monstrosities presented
bottles and glass retorts. The assortme
of infants with an extra number~ot hea'
arms or legs was especially comprehensI7
A series of glass-jars contained heads
individuals who had evidently met WI