The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26
MURDERous MUSHROOM GRoUER.
Burns His Victims BODY In tho oven or His
HothouEe-in Paris Startled.

from me IOnuOn SfnnUuTV.
The murderers of the bank messenger La.
mare. in the employ of the Compton DIES.
compte. who mysteriously disappeared Mt the
end of November, have been discovered. The
last money the unfortunate man had collected
was from a person living at Bicetre, after
which all trace of him was lost. As he WAS n
man Of regular habits and known honesty. tho
police felt sure that he must have been robbed
and done away with. Suspicion fell on n man
named Carrara. Il mushroom grower, who had
lived for the last fourteen years in n house situ-
ated in Rue Etiennc Dolet, and from whom the
messenger was to collect money due TO the bank
that day. He. his wife, and his carter. n man
named Captain. were arrested on suspicion.
All three at first denied having any knowledge
OF what became Of the bank messenger after
they had paid to him the money he came 70 col.
Commissarv. had began to think bis suspicions
ill-founded, when. late last night. Nine. Car
rara confessed, She had been, questioned for
five hours without revealing her secret. At
hing, and exclaimed; ION; my poor children!
herself on hor knees at the feet Of the Police
Magistrate and related the crime. She said;
which would ""n iT be- p res nj i"bb by ii the enc mcs Sei G%T OF OF
the Credit Lyonnais. and the other by that of
the ,C9mgtoir d'Escompte. To meet them We
needed 253 francs. and we had only 80 francs.
bank MESSENGER. and we shall then have all tho
sengcr pr resented himself early in the morning.
at tho beginning of his round. lie. therefore. had
little or no money. which circumstance saved his
life, for. had ii been otherwise, my husband most
surely would have killed him. As it was. my
husband told him TO come back the next day, and
that he would have the money to meet tho bill.
lie added: The messenger of the Compton,
d'Escompte, who comes, in the afternoon, will
whom we must make away with We await.
cd his arrival with impaticncc. At las. at n
Gus Sno past Io wss be tho s Nv T Gas6 EnmS' tb fepG sni
to me. Go and fetch the money for this gentle.
man. ! went into the kitchen. Then my ,hus-
hand struck the bank messenger n terrible blow
on the head with an enormous iron wrench, used
for unScrewipg the wheel Of a cart, and which he
bank messenger fell TO the ground without utter.
ing a sound; Hc had been killed on tho spot.
~ came back, and NY husband exclaimed
4 will be all right, He dragged NE body into
contained 2G,2lO francs. which he took; To
several Of our acqaintancts; My husband even
went so far as, 20 borrow, the money necessary
TO pay the Credit Lyonnais messenger, who was
TO return the following day. That messenger
did return the next day and was paid with tho
money borrowed by. Carrara. who returned II
as to how to hide the body from our three chill.
drcn, who were to return home from school at
up in tho kitchen. but Captain. our carter,
who took his meals with us, was coming Mt
half past 7 O'Clock; II was necessary to hide the
b''iy toil hiIs ~ ny i't'A'l' bf VI -
leather strap, lowered tho body into n well in
our mushroom vaults, where Il remained sus.
pended till \ O'Clock. At that time. when there
was no one about. my husband took down the
body and throw II into the large coke furnace
used for tho ventilation of the snbterrancan
galleries. He watched the burning of the
corpse. which lasted eight hours. II was Mt 1
o'clock In the morning he came up and entered
my room. He said: 1t is al, donei ! hnyo
burned the whn!c body with The clothes. the
There is absolutely. nothing left, you may
make your mind easy. As for the 26,210 francs
we stole, | have hidden them in the wall Of ouI
yard. You will easily, find the money, for
marked the place with the figure -. You
may go there whom you want money, but you
let people know we have. money. The hoard
must for the present lie left where II is You
see, my husband had taken every prccautiOn
l cried bitterly while Listening TO all the par
ticulars he related to me-
When Carrnrn was brought before NJ, Coche
fert this morning and told that his wife had
made n complete confession. he protested mos
theoretically against IL, and declared thai
II NJ. Lemnrrc had been mnrdercd IT mus
have been by Captain with Nine. Carrara
fronted with his wife, who removed her proviou.
dc ,laraiioms. After once more protesting
againIt them. no at length said: We'll, yes
All my, vito has related Is true. II is | viii
killed the bank messenger Lnuiarre.''
Tomorrow what Is called tho ''reconstitu
tlon" of the crime, that is 20 say, the mimic rcpo
tiIion of II. will take place at Currara's house
NJ. Cochefert and NJ. Jossc, the examining Mag
~istratc, will be present.
Captain, the carter in the employ of Carrara
master and his wife. WAS set a. liberty thi
evening. Carrara is an Italian, horn at AlbinC
In 1868. His wife Is of French nationality, be
ing a native o. Lille.