The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
STRANGELY liked UPON AlM.
A shred OF the Murawrof's skin Found
matuean the Dead GIrl's Teeth.


A curious murder case and mystery.
whose gruesome details would hnve
done honor 10 the imagination OF Ed-
gar A. Poe has just found its denone-
ment IN the place where the crime was
committed, namely, In Switzerland.
near Berne.
Late In the autumn a fair was held
In that city which attracted large
concourse of people from the neigh
boring villages. Among these was n
young country girl, one Anna Haehin-
Ger, who came with a party of her
friends aud neighbors 10 partake of the
festivities of the occasion. Late in the
evening they all started for their homes
in little hamlet not far from Berne.
1t was not till they reached their les-
tination that they discovered that
Anna was missing Had she Jagged
behind. or, as was more probable. had
she failed to set of at the same time
with her comrades with the intent 10
follow them and 10 catch up with them
laterp
This last solution appears the more
likely. as her corpse, frightfully mutt
| lated and In an indescribable aud
| shocking manner, was found day OF
| two afterwards In n field not far from
the main road. Search was at once
made for the assassin. but without
avail He was not TO be discovered.
and after the first hue and cry was
over. the affair seemed TO have settled
down into one of those mysterious
crimes whose perpetrators are destined
To remain forever unknown.
The police authorities held in theil
possession a solitary scrap of evidence
| against the murderer. The vietinl
was vigorous and healthy country
| girl. She had fought hard. though
/ vaiulv, TO preserve her honor aud heI
/ life. From between her clenched teeth
/ the physician entrusted with the per
! formance of the rost-mortem exam
/ ination had disengaged fragment oi
/ human flesh. torn OIL in her struggles
l from the face or the hands Of her as
sailant. This ghastly morsel. pre-
served in alcohol. was put CAREFUL,
/ away so as TO be ready to produce il
/ case of need.
Time went on and the baflled detect
! ives failed to find even the slightes
trace of the mysterious criminal. But
the other day young medical student
/ in the University of Berne was in ths
act of LAYING aside his street coat &
! put on MS NoIhlbS ldChtts Hhtu hi'
/ shirt sleeve became disarranged. re
| vealing on his wrist strange-lookins
wound which had apparently beer
caused by a terrible bite. His com
rades crowded around him. over
whelming him with questions concern
ing the origin of this singular injury
I He stammered became confused. gav'
incoherent and contradictory answers
| aud. finally. breaking away from tn,
crowd. he hurried back TO his home
seized loaded pistol and shot himsel
through the head.
/ The police authorities OF Berne be
| ing informed Of this catastrophe. cause,
the piece of flesh 10 be produced ans
applied TO the wound on the young
mans arm. II fitted exactly. aud fur
( ther Investigations withe the micro
scope proved the identity of the sui
! cide's skin with that upon the frag
meut. Thus strangely. and througl
the workings Of the assassin's guilt,
/ conscience. was poor Anna Hachinge
/ avenged. As one of the lawyers inter
/ ested in the case remarked She ha:
convicted her murderer out of her owl
! mouth. ~ Philadelphia Telegraph.