The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-30

old lady and compatriot of his. and of
 having cut her body up and stored the pieces away In . trunk.
 Tasso held c rather comforfab1e nc-
 sition at Marseiliss being succossful
 emigration agent He was mArriAd and had three children, and lived in
 easy circumstancess having . house in
 Marseilies and . pretty villa in the
 suburbs of that city. An elderly Gy-
 rian lady. who had bssn known to his family for years, and who had hither- to been trestsd as friend. was re. turned from voyage to America, aud
 had, 1t h alleged. lent him come
 money. which was in the end made the pretext for the crime.
 Tasso alleges that she insisted on being repaid at once, which exaep1r. ated him. and that he killed her in q at of anger. after which. not know ing what to do. he cut up the body and ing to get rid of 1t by transporting it somewhere. The heat. however. caus. cd the presnce of the corpse to be per- ceived by the neighbors on the second day and Tasso. who had gone to the country for day. returned just as the police were searching tn house, and . crowd had gathered to watch the proceedings. He stood. 1t is said, an indifferent onlooker himself, among the crowd for some time. but finally reaiizing the tsrrible nature of tho crime. he went and gave himself up to the police, alleging to have feigned madness. and was trsnsfsrrsd to . iu.t close medical observation. After soma weeks. when 1t Is supposed he belfeyea that the observation was relaxed, he became confidential with one of his fellow inmates of the asylum, and handed him letters for his wife, 10 A-A n~ ANs sAfr A~~ H& had been trying to impose on the po-. lice and the doctors and hoped that he would escape conviction. He was then transferred to the prison and the trial will begin this week
 But notwithstanding all the details so far brought out, . mystery ssiil dificult to conceive how . man like Tasso, in easy circumstances. should have committed murder for sum ox a few hundred francs. Besides, there sems to be no reason why he should have borrowed money from the victim. as it is known that he had an account in the bank and did not need 1t.
 Bronzed as if he had just come from Africa. M. Godfrey came to Paris with the intention of selling lion skins, the prizes, he alleged. of his own intrepid hunting. Whenever he found possi- bie customer he gave glowing de-
  breadth escapes. and other incidents which form the usual lot of trapper and hunter of wild beasts
 He thus obtained very high prices for his skins. the stock of which seern- ed to be inexhaustihle. Detectives sus. pected him and on the pretext of see. ing his papers, they Invited him to the Prefecture of Police. investigation proved that the self styled lion hunter had obtained his bronzed complexion, to a great extent. while breakinh stones as convict. He had never been so far as Africa and had never had an opportunity of ieveiling rifle at a live lion in the wilderness. His means of obtaining the skins were much more expeditions. He visited the depots at various seaports and sim. ply made speciality of stealing the skins of lions kept in the warehouses. and he succeeded in appropriatiag such a large number that he had to charter small sailing vessel. on which he brought his booty to Calais. The nser. chandise which he had thus secured amounts in value to s2o.ooo.