Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-23
REMARKABLE DETECTIVE WORK
OF BUENOs AYREs POLICE.
A House 90 House Search for the
Perpetrator of the Crime
Caught by the cable.


Douai for the murder of his asso-
ciate, Farbos, nearly two years
ago in Buenos Ayres. Rarely in
the history of criminal jur,spru-
dence has there been established
more carefully linked chain of
crcumstanjial evidence round
murd 9rer. More than 1000 witness
es were examined. A detailed ac-
count of the crime reads like one
of Gaboriau's red romances. A
brief sketch Of it follows:
On April 2, 1894, the police of
Buenos Ayres found a sack on the
outskirts of the town. 1t contained
the headless, armless and legless
body of man. The trunk was
covered with sawdust, salt, pieces
of linen and material that evident
ly had been taken out of mat
tress. In the evening of the same
day another sack WAS found con-
tanning the arms and legs of the
victim. They were covered with
the same materials and with pieces
of torn newspapers. Three weeks
afterward children playing in the
woods found a queer-looking pack
age. They cut it partly open and
saw a human eye that seemed to
be peeping out of the bundle.
They ran away and informed the
police, who found in the bundle
a mans head.
Medical experts established be-
yond doubt that the head belong
ed to the trunk found three weeks
before. A mask was taken of the
face. 1t was photographed and
picture of 1T printed. Copies of
this picture were posted all over
the town and the newspapers re-
produced it. The body, put to-
gether as skillfuily as possible,
was placed in the Morgue, where !
nearly the entire population Of the
city saw it. Eventually the body
was identified as that of "a French
man named Farbos, who recently
had arrived for the second time in
the city. Then came the hunt for
the murderer, and in this hunt the
Argentine authorities distinguish
ed themselves. A general search
was made in all the houses of
Buenos Ayres, This task WAS divid.
ed among forty Police Commits
sioners.
Eventually clew was obtained.
1t showed that Farbos previously
had visited Buenos Ayres in com.
pany with TIemblie on strange
mission. French gold was at a pre-
MUM, most notably when ex-
changed for two cent Argentine
pieces. For $500 in gold at least
$1,000 in pennies could be had.
These pennies could be smuggled
into France and there be set gra-
dually in circulation. Farbos who
had money, was delighted with
the prospect of such speculation,
and at Tremblie's instance he tried
it. When the first lot of two cent
pieces bad been worked off Trem-
bile, who had little or no capital,
returned to Buenos Ayres, advis-
ing Farbos to follow him, to bring
with him all his available funds
in gold and treble his fortune.
On March 30, 1894, Farbos, act
ing on his partners advice, sailed
On the steamer Orenoque for Bue-
nos Ayres. He landed on April
10th. Tremblie met him on the pier.
During their previous stay in
Buenos Ayres Farbos and Trem-
lie had put mp in the house of
Freuchman named Courtade.
'remblie now changed the quart
RS and in the Gale Cangallo, un-
Ter the false name of Pedro Taba.
.os, he hired a room that was iso-
ated from the rest of the house.
lie had concealed from Courtade
he arrival of Farbos, but while
he vessel was IN quarantine Far
,os had found way to send
'remblle n letter. Nine. Courtade
'rought Tremblie the letter, re-
barking that the address looked
Ike the har dwriting of Farbos.
$50 it is, said Tremblie. The :
etter is from France"
"But how comes it that it bears
he Argentine stamp?" asked the
roman.
He probably gave it to some
assenger on board the Orenoque,
no posted There, replied Trem-