The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-12-26
A PARIS SENSATION.
The Murder of an Aged Baroness
in Her Apartments.
AN Ex-LIEUTENANT's CONFESSION.

AhObbCfS Alb DhEouC5o otfNahts
who Was Also AssaiIcd, Recover
ing from Her Wounds.
PARIS, Dec. 2D.-The Christmas day
sensation in this city is the arrest of
Lieutenant Anastery. retired army Of
ficer, on the charge of numbering Bar
oness Dellard. The lieutenant was sub
jected to preliminary examination at
the prefecture of police, and, after deny
ing that he was the guilty prisoner, was
remanded.
The evidence submitted by the police
was about as follows:
The baroness It appears, was, at about
o'clock in the afternoon of Dec.
seated in the salon of her apartment on
the first floor OF the large and fully in
habited house which she occupied with
her son, at 3 Boulevard de Temple, close
to the Place de La Concorde.
A Distinguished Victim.
Baroness Dellard was the daughter Of
a general of the FIRST empire. Her father
was General Baron Boulart, who was in
command of the artillery of the old
guard of Napoleon /. The name of
are inscribed upon the arc de tri-
omphe. The baroness was the widow
of a colonel of culrassiers of the guard,
and was 70 years of age. She is de-
scribed as tall and stately old lady,
with snow white hair, and was held in
much respect and esteem by her neigh
bors. Hor son, Baron Dellard, holds an
important position on the clerical staff
of the minister of war, NJ. de Freycinet.
He is about 10 years of age, a retired
army officer and knight OF the Legion
of honor.
At the time and place mentioned
young man of slight build, elegantly
dressed, and wearing high silk hat,
entered the doorway Of the house in
which the baroness lived and asked the
porter where the apartment of the
baroness was situated. He was in
formed that the baroness lived on the
first floor, but the stranger went up to
the apartment Immediately above that of
the baroness and asked the servant who
answered the bell there if that was
the apartment where the Baroness Del
lard lived. He was informed thnt the
baroness lived on the floor below, where
upon he descended the stairs to the t1rst
floor and was heard to ring the bell of
the baroness apartment.
The Cry for Help.
Here there is lapse of short time,
possibly FIVE or six minutes, at the end
OF which period Delphine Hourbe,
servant employed by the baroness vio-
lently opened the window Of the latter's
dining room, which opened into the
courtyard forming the interior Of the
building and, pointing to the porch or
archway leading into the street, she
cried in choking tones, ''Help, mutder;
stop him." The poor servant girl, it
throat, from which the blood was pour
ing over the front of her dress. The
girls cries, however, were at first too in
articulate to arouse immediate attention
and alarm.
In the meanwhile the murderer was
able to leave the baroness apartments
and start downstairs. On the porch just
as he was leaving the house the mur-
derer met the concierge, or the porter's
wife, and coolly recommended her to
close the front door, as it seemed that
something had happened in the house.
He then calmly stepped into the street,
and the bewildered concierge closed the
door behind him. The murderer then
quickly mingled in the throng of passers
by and disappeared. By this time the
baroness servant, in spite of the gaping
wound in her throat, had managed to
stumble, faint from loss of blood, down
stairs into the court yard, whore shefell
insensible.
A Fearful Discovery.
This caused the concierage to raise an
alarm which brought number of peo-
pie to the spot, and the blood soaked
girl was carried up stairs to the apart
ments of the baroness. There fright
full spectacle was disclosed. The utmost
disorder prevailed in the dining room.
All the cupboards, des,,s and drawers
had been forced open, and the best part
of their contents were strewn on the
floor. In the bedroom adjoining was
found the body of the Baroness Dellard,
her throat cut from ear to ear, the head
literally being almost cut from the
body. 1t was evident that her death
must have been almost instantaneous.
The police were soon summoned to
the spot and an investigation made into
the crime. The first thing done was to
try to save the life of the unfortunate
girl, and this the surgeons were able to
do, in spite Of The terrible wounds in her
throat and the large quantity of blood
she had lost. When Delphine strong
and healthy country girl, had recovered
sufficiently to answer the questions put
to her, tho police were able to set to
work with well connected story of the
crime to guide them.
The servant, it seems, had been sent
out on an errsnd, and the murderer,
who is supposed to have been watching
the house, aware that the Baron Del
lard had gone out some time previously,
knew that when Delphine left the Del
lard residence the old baroness was
alone. Consequently he entered the
house, as already described. and went to
the floor above the baroness simply to
see if there was any possibility of being
interrupted in his work. Thus, when
he rang the bell of the Dellard apart
ment it was the baroness herself who
opened the door. The latter must have
followed the baroness into the bedroom
of her son, to which place the baroness
apparently fed, terrified by the mur-