Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-29
MURDER WILL OUT.
4 SINGULAR cLuE TO THE pERrErIlA.
TOR oF a DOUBLE unlME.


Paris, Jan. "A curious murder
case aud mystery whose grucsOme
details would have done honor to the
imagination Of Edgar \. Poe, has lust
found It's dcnourmcnt In the place
whore the crime was committed, name.
ly, Ia Switzerland, near Berne.
Late In the autumn fair was held la
that city which attracted large con-
course " people FROM the noighhoriug
villages. Among these was n young
country girl, ono Anna HRchinger
WIN CAME withnparty uf her friendsand
nelghbprs 10 ptriakc OF the festivities Of
tlU occasion. Late ia the evening they
nil started for their homes In a little
hamlet not INT from Bcrnc. IL was not
till they reached their destination that
they discovered that Anna was miss
Ing. Hal shc Jagged behind, or, as
was more probable, hal she failed 10
set On'at The same timU with her COM
rades with the Intent 10 follow them
and 10 catch up with them later!
This last solution appears the more
likely, rs her corpse, frightiully multi
ated aud Ia mn undesirable and shock.
ing manner was found day Or two
Afterwards In field not fnr from the
main read. search was at once made
for the assassin, but without avail.
He WIS not 10 bc discovered, nnd nft,r
the FIST hue and cry was over, the
affair seemed 10 have settled down in.
" one Of those mysterious crimes
whosc perpetrators axe destined 10 IT,
main forever unknown.
The police authorities held Ia their
possession a solitary scrap OF evidences
against the murderer. This victim WINS
u vigorous aud healthy country girl.
She hal fought hard, though vanity, TO
preserve her honor aud her life. From
between her cleuchVd teeth the physi.
cian entrusted with the performance OF
the pD,t-noItom examination inhd die.
engaged n fragment Of hum "a flesh,
torn OF In her struggles fIom tho fiico
OF the hands " her assailhnt. This
ghastly morsol, preserved Ia alcohol,
was put carefully away so an 10 he
ready n produce IN case OF need.
Time went on and the baiiled de-
toctives failed TO iind even the slight.
ost trace OF the mysterious criminal.
Hut the other day young medical
student In tho University OF Berne
was In the act Of laying aside his street
coat 10 put ON his working jacket, when
his shirt sleeve became disarrapged,
revealing on his wrist strange look
ing wound which had apparently been
caused by u terrible bite. His com.
radca crowded around him, over
whelmlng him with questions con-
corning the origin Of his singular
injury. lie stammered, became com
fused, gave incoheront and contradic.
tory answers, and, finally, breaking
away from the crowd, he hurried back
10 his home, seized a loaded pistol and
shot himself through the head.
The police authorities OF Berne being
Informed Of this catastrophe, caused
the piece Of ilesh TO be produced and
applied to the wound on the young
mans arm. IL fitted exactly, and fur.
Their Investigations with the microscope
proved the identity OF the suicides
skin with that upon the fragment.
Thus strangely, and through the work
ings OF the assassin's guilty conscience,
was poor Anna HGchlnger avenged.
As one OF the lawyers Interested In the
case remarked, "She has convicted her
murderer out Of her own mouth. ~
Rgade.phia leiegrdph.