The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-11-10
Tnusk aNpEnpx MYsrEaIEs.
ia Every Case Hsu. one a Bos :.ur-
der Has Been Discovered.

der Has Been Discovered.
To commit 4 murder is compara-
lively. easy. The difficulty comes I'm
wnen the crimA has to be concealed.
Where the Identification of the vic
tim must must lead to the discovery
Of the assassin. the difficulty is i'm
creased.
At first sight Ithe hiding of the
body IN the boxl would seem to be
an easy and ready mode of disposal,
provided always that the box and
It's contents canl be kept sufficient
~ kong to render Identification inn
possible. AS matter of fact, how
ever, IN every eRse-with one ex-
SsPtion--w where aAbox has been en-
ployed discovery has followed.
Although Englabd sets the exam
pie 70 regard to bbx crimes, IL Is to
the Continent. one must go for the
ma Sy os casesf In Paris, i'm the
year 1892, bank porter named
Ramrs was poisoned by his friend
Regey. The head was placed in a
box and throwAI in the Seine, to be
iished up almost Immediately after
wards by party of boatsmen
In 1850 wel known dealer in
art bnonzes. named Poirier Desfon-
taines, an old bachelor, was murder
ed by his servant one Won. Des-
IoDtaines' assassin sent the evidence
OF his crime in a trunk to Chat
eauroex,'' to be left till called for"
There was no trace of Won to he
found. and he was only captured by
an ingenious uSe of the public
Journals, devised jby the celebrated
Deeeetive Canler Canler had
paragraph inserted to the effect
that all search for the criminal
would be useless, seeing that he had
n1anaged to escape into Spain. Be
s iieying that the palice had aband-
oned pursuit, Vion imprudently
showed himself is Paris and was
appreRended.
A few years later Victor Domby
initiated Vion's exploit, for he also
dispatehed his victim in a trunk,
to be left till called for This
time the burden Went to Lyons, and
when the body wasIfound suspicion
feH upon pomby' friend Calloux,
who had bought the wooden case
and had trundled lit to the railway
station hot knowing what it con
tanned. Domby's guilt was brought
Z kome to him.
The murder of Go1ffe by Jean
Eyraud :and Gabrielle Bompard was
! one of. the most deliberately dia-
Dolieai conceptions that can be cited.
But in spite of their elaborate pre-
cautions the guilt \of the assassins
was established
america can claim two notable in
staEces Of. box crimes. In 1871 a
man named Samuel Adams was muir
dered by John C. Colt, a bookkeep-
ers and teacher of ornamental writ
Ing. in an office in Broadway. The
remains were placed in a box and
shipEed on board a vessel bound
Tor New Orleans. But Nemesis fol-
lowed, -as with other crimes of the
same kind. The vessel was unex-
pectedly delayed for a week and the
nature of the hideous contents of
the packing case was revealed.
The other instance is that of AL
Ices augusta Boylsby, charming
ana beautiful Young woman, in
whose death doctor was implicated.
'le iere WAS a good deal of mystery
in the affair Woman, accompan-
led by Q big trunk alighted from
cab at the terminus of the Harlem
River Railway and asked to have
the trunk Sent on to Chicago. When
she found that there was no train
that hight she instantly fled, leay-
ing the trunk behind her. The
murderer was speedily discovered
and the doctor in question appre-
9nded through pieces of the vic
no garments marked with her in
Etials being discovered by the au-
thoritfes in his fhouse.
America can also boast of a ter
rtbie use to which trunk was put
Dy the stupenddus william Holmes,
) VINO murdered Wholesale. He util-
ized trunk notN merely to conceal
the bodies of his Victims, but actual
~ 10 take their lives. They were
tlrst drugged, then placed in
trunk attached to "a tube connected
with en- ordinary gas pipe and thus
poisoned
The box. crime in England was re-
yiyed I'm 1872 by Rev. John Selby
watson, who, in fit of passion,
murdered his wife and purchased a
trunk to conceal the deed, He was
Judged insane and he Ended his
days in Broadmoor.
re Harley street mystery of
1878, where the dead body of a wo-
mar was found in the cellar of one
g OF the mansions jim this well-known
thoroughfare, was never solved: but
the, case hardly \ comes within the
category of a box crime, as the re-
ceptae.e employed was a cask. On
me other hand, the case of Arthur
Deveraux, the chemist, who MUIR
deIed his wife aid two children. is
quite a typical example. Deveraux
introduced a new feature to get rid
OF the obvious risks of discovery.
He filled the trynk with cement,
and, IN addition\ took the most
elaborate precautfpns. Underneath
the box lid was ahother Of wooden
sections. neatly fitted together, and
%ith crossbars sctewed, the whole