The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
nMRs. EyERErro IDENTIFIED.
Felieien Faneonniere Says She is Louis,
 Lansburg, and Tells n Romance,

onnade hotel suicide, whose body is re- corded at the morgue as that of Mrs. Everett of Boston," Those who have had charge of the case were somewhat sceptical this morning regarding the story told by Felieien Fauconniere, who says he knew the woman in life as Lou ise Lansburg.
 Fauconniere, according to his story, is Frenchman. The dead woman and he were lovers, She married for mon- ey and then killed herself because Fau- connlere could not marry her. She was French, too.
 Fauconniere appeared at the coro- ners' office yesterday and told his sto- ry. He was shabbily dressed and said that he had come from Philadelphia to look at the body. The reason he gave for not appearing before was that his financial condition would not permit it His poverty was such, he said, that he was compelled to walk the last eight cen miles between Philadelphia and this city.
 The man arrived here on Friday. Be- lolC SOlilE tO l!lS HG uGSCIipSu accurately the dead woman's body He told of marks on her body, one of which had not been included in the published description of the suicide That was a slight scar on the back of her neck. He produced a lock of hair which matched that of the dead woman.
 Fauconniere said that the woman had sent him a letter from the Colonnade hotel saying that she would kill herself on May or 9. She asked him not to make her name public. This letter, he said, he could not produce because it was in the pocket of a pair of trousers he had pawned in Philadelphia. Dis patches from Philadelphia say that a letter could not be found in any trous- CTS pawned at the address he gave.
 The woman, Fauconniere said, was born in Calais, where he came from. She was twenty-five years old. She had lived with his family in Belgium when he was in the army. She wanted him to elope with her. Upon his re- fusal she married another and left her husband for Fauconniere. Her hus- band got a divorce and Fauconniere married.
 After telling his story Fauconniere obtained money from the coroner S clerk to pay for his lodging.
 Fauconniere called at the coroners' office this morning and repeated his story. He hesitated about identifying the suicide. he said, because the woman had asked him to keep her name secret. He was angry because the newspapers had mentioned his poverty.
 This is the statement he made this morning about his movements, which was recorded by the coroner:
 T am twenty-six years old. am 8 laborer I last heard from the dead woman by letter dated New York, May last, which I received on May (. She said in the letter that she was go- ing to commit suicide on May or 9 in New York. I did not pay any at tention to the letter because I had for gotten her long ago.
 II first heard of her death on May 10. l saw her picture in newspaper and read an account. l saw the name Mrs. Everett, but I did not pay any atten- tion to it. I knew the picture.
 T could not go to New York then. I did not have the money to pay my car fare. I wrote to the police of the Mercer street station asking them to save the two gold rings and the brooch which the dead woman left and lock of her hair. I gave the woman one of the rings and the brooch when we were lovers.
 T signed the letter 'Felce' and gave the address 1,425 Wood street, Philadel- phia. I did not receive any reply from the police.
 Tn her letter the woman asked me to leave her identity in darkness. I was going to comply with her request, but old recollections came up and I decided to look at her body and tell who she was. I left Philadelphia on Thursday night and got to New York on Friday morning. l had to walk part of the way because had only $2.
 q got lost on Thursday night, when I arrived at Jersey City. I walked back to Newark. From Newark I walked to New York. Early Friday morning slept on the steps of house for a, while It became cold and I then slept in a box. When I awoke it was still dark and raining. I boarded a boat and went to New 1OfK.
 At this point the man explained that he had friends in this city. Two of them worked in the Waldorf hotel and third at the Hotel Netherland. He refused to give the names of his friends He gave the name of Paul Woolsley, a member of the Engineers club, at 10 West Twenty y-ninth street, as a friend whom he had called on.
 Continuing his story, Fauconniere said that he called at the morgue Sat urday at o'clock. Before that he had gone to the Colonnade hotel to see the dead woman's picture. Clerk Mitchell todI him that the picture was at the morgue.
 T went to the morgue," continued Fauconniere, "but because of my ap- pearance the attendant refused to let me see the body. I then went to the Engineers club to see my friend. On the next morning I called at the coro- ner's office and later saw the body which I recognized as that of Louise Lansburg."
 After making the above statement Fauconniere produced the envelope which, he said, had contained the last letter which he had received from the dead woman. The handwriting on the envelope was not to the ordinary eye identical with that in the note which the suicide left. :.
 Fauconniere said that as he was mar ried he had always destroyed the wo- mans letters. She had sent the last