New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-12
A PARTISAN STORY.

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been found in the Seine, says a letter
from Paris. The face was fair and the
hair, that streamed upon the tide, was
of brightest golden. The clothing was
worn and poor, and the little shoes
were trodden through and broken in
places.
Around the neck there hung a slen-
DEF gold chain, to which was attached
a little gold locket. In this locket
was the miniature Photograph Of man
"a young man, with short, curling
hair, black as the ravens wing, large
dark eyes, and cheeks i'll which the red
blood stood out clearly defined.
Two francs were in the purse-that
was ALL In a little side compartment,
however, was lock OF short jet-black
hair.
The body was drawn out oftheriver
and taken to the morgue. There, ly-
ing upon the marble slabs, with the
water spray playing over the fair,
young face, this body, found without
a clew upon it, lay awaitingidentifica-
ton. Finally member OF the secret
police who viewed it declared that he
thought he recognized the remains as
those OF a young woman who had been
maintained in house in the Rue Pro
tin, as the friend OF a man known as
Jew Isaacs. This Isaacs lived by him
self in an old rumbling house in the
QUARTER Latin.
Inquiries were at once made at the
young woman's rooms, and it was
found that she had suddenly eisap-
peared some days before, leaving
everything behind her, and had not
since been seen.
The police then bent their steps to
the house Of Isaacs. Repeated knock
ings at the door failed to elicit any re-
Spouse. Inquiries in the neighbour
hood showed that very little was
known about the old man. He lived
all by himself in the old house, held
little OF no communication with his
neighbors, but was believed to carry
on some sort of business as a money
lender and was reputed to be rich. He
was not known to be in the habit Of
visiting anybody save the woman i'll
the Rue Protin.
Nobody having seen Isaacs in num-
Der OF days, the police finally decided
to break down the door and enter the
house. The front door proving very
difficult to force, they tried the scuttle
in the roof and there, after some little
difficulty, succeeded in entering the
house. In the garnet and on the up
per floors, which presented most
squalid and neglected appearance,
they found nothing except numbers
of scampering vermin. Upon search
ing the ground floor, however, they
found the back parlor in a terrible
state of confusion.
1t presented all the evidences of a
fierce struggle. A chair was overturn.
ed and broken, a table was half upset
against the wall, there were some dark,
ominous stains, which were darker
than the CRIME on the floor, and a
portion of two planks had been torn
up, disclosing a receptacle beneath the
flooring which had evidently been used
as a hldlng-place for valuables.
The dark blotches led out through
the doorway and were plainly to be
discerned upon the old worn oilcloth
covering the passage. They led to a
door at the further end of this passage
which opened upon the stairs to the
cellar.
Having procured @ lantern the
police descended into the cellar, in
which was the BLACKLIST darkness.
Raising the lantern they took a few
steps forward. Then, suddenly, it's
light flashed upon an awful discovery.
Seated in an old chair almost in the
center OF the celler, with head thrown
back, eyes distended, his mouth wide
open, his body half eaten by the rats,
was Jew Isaacs.
At a glance it could be seen that he
had come to his death by foul means.
His clothing was torn into shreds in
places; there was a deepgaping wound
in his left temple; under the long
nails Of the right hand were pieces OF
ShIl otilO uly O1OOu, c1l1u uAOoC JILL
nous of all, clutched in lifelong, sinuous
fingers of the left hand were number
OF dark, curling hairs-halrs which
had evidently been wrenched from
his assailant's head as Isaacs strug.
gled for his life.
The salient features of the murder
were apparent to the police at a
glance The old man had evidently
been attacked by the black-haired as
sassin in the back room on the ground
floor, and had been dispatched after a
violent struggle. The body had then
been carried into the cellar and thrown
into the chair, and the planking in the
back rot.n had been torn up in the
search after plumber.
The first thing the police set about
was to get on the track OF the murder.
er OF murderers. The disappearance
OF Isaac's lady friend was considered
a most significant feature of the case
and the police took their initial steps
In the investigation by tracing her.
The first theory IF the nO1icn who