The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-06
PARIS IS GREATLY
AROUSED BY CRIME
Murder Of Woman of Under
World Has Caused Great
est Excitement.
CASE MOST UNUSUAL ONE.
MAN WHO 10 UNDER ARREST DE-
MES THE MURDER BUT ADMITS
HE CUT UP THE CORPSE INTO
SMALL SITS.
american News Service,

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Paris, June 6.-Never before has
Paris been 50 aroused over the murder
OF . denizen OF the underworld as It
has over that OF Elsie .yandamme.
whose dismembered body was found
scattered over different sections Of the
city. more than two months ago.
Nearly every other local subject now
pals in interest compared with the
Rue Botzaris affair. as It Is called.
Columns and pages full Of 1t appear In
the papers. Not that 1t Is more unna-
tural than many q similar crime. but
because the details lend themselve
to any amount Of descriptive ampli-
fications. Whilst the police were
searching for the presumed murderer
and 1t took two good months-there
was ample time to enter into the his
tory OF this unfortunate girl. who at
the age Of eighteen had already long
career on the Paris troittoirs behind
her. She makes q casual acquaintance
with a man who had already spoken
to three Of her friends In a similar
walk In life. They see her disappear
gaily in his company down the street,
and had only just noticed that he
had peculiar-looking face and big
red hands. That was the last they
saw OF Elisa Vandamme until her mu-
tilated head was found in the vacant
lot Of the Rue Rotzaris.
Hands In q Drain.
Her hands were found in a drain
some time later. and then what seemed
to be her ears and other parts Of her
body. scattered as 1t were. at haphaz-
ard by the fiend who was cutting up
her corpse, and finally some children
playing on another vacant lot were
found to be using q dried-up human
leg % q bat In game OF ball. The
leg was to all appearances, after a
careful examination by specialists OF
the Morgue. set down as being that Of
the murdered girl.
The crime haunts the imagination
OF real or would-be criminals who write
to the detective department claim
ing that they perpetrate0 It. as II Il
were something In which they could
glory. One Of them. In an anonymous
missive. tells M. Hamard to search no
moro In Paris or France because he,
the real criminal, was taking the train
to 60 abroad. and he posted the latter
at he Care de IEst. During this time.
the only man who knew anything
about the girls death. and how it &C.
Cured. was quietly pedalling every
day through tho streets Of Paris On a
delivery tricycle., carrying clothes and
linen for laundry woman to her GUS
toners, and well earning his four or
Ave francs a day by more real hard
labor than he had ever been compelled
to do in the convict station at Guiana.
The newspapers were full of details
about the Rue Botzaris mystery. and
when he could spare q sou he would
buy one and read It quietly by himself
He had served his term Of I'VE years,
but another hve as . ticket-of-leave
man was too much for him. Two years
ago he escaped from he settlement.
wandered over q good part Of South
America, and finally worked his way
back to France and Paris, his
native town. One night. last Novem
little room on the nth door. heard q
knock ut the door. She opened It
holding . lighted candle before her
and recognised the stranger. He was
her SON.
He Was Homesick.
Good heavens! What are you do
ing here? You are under ban, my
son and II the police find 1t out you
will be arrested again."
II could not help it mother. I wal
homesick: I had to come back. But
the police will not catch me. I shall
earn my bread honestly. and they viii
not trouble about me"
Every Sunday and holiday since