The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-20

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"a HE Bt0fy OIL Tue uSleOhhoL
sof the murderer yoIrbt
by H., Mace excels an,
detective story ever i'm
M agined or written. The
dH analytical and deductiy'
NJ INN powers Of this famous
Sf6SllH police commissary en-
9SSN abled him. bit by bit, ts
%M unrayel the facts con
,9Ie corning one Of the most
shrewdly MANNED and brutal murders
-that have ever occurred. The nara
dive affords a perfect example OF the
manner in which truth sometimes sur
passes fiction.
RIngue, police constable OF Pario
was passing homeward one afternoon
along the Rue PrIncesse, when a
friend Of his, who kept small cheap
restaurant at No. so, came running out
Of his establishment and seized him
excitedly by the arm.
DO you remember" he began
breathlessly, "how complained about
the bad odor OF the water In my well?
1t had really become undrinkable, and
so today resolved to examine 1t to
find out what was the cause OF the
trouble. l went to my cellar in the
basement, from which window opens
into the brick circumference of the
well, lit a candle and let It down by
thread. Ny attention was at once
drawn toward something floating upon
the water"
BY this time he had dragged the
constable into his shop, and continued,
in high excitement:
II took an iron hook with a long
handle and tried to fish 1t vi. The
fourth attempt succeeded. found
something wrapped in covering. !
undid the wrapping and-come here!"
He led the policeman into an adjoin-
ing apartment, where he laid before
his eyes severed human leg.
The constable went Immediately to
the commissary, NJ. Mace, a young
man who afterward highly distin.
gulshed himself in his profession, but
was then entirely unknown. NJ. Mace
hurried 10 the house In the Rue Prin,
cesse, examined the CHASTITY trophy
and went to the we'll, where he soon
made out asecond object fioatingSupon
the water. This was tished up with
some difficulty, and proved to be a par
Gel like the first. The cover was OF
black calico, knotted at either end,
and sewn in the middle with black
thread. There was an inner covering
made of a part of the leg Of a trou-
sefs, and within lay a second leg. It
was encased in part of a long stock
ing, made of drab cotton, and Frag,
ment of a stock had been stitched over
Ii, on which was an initial b" with
a small cross on either side of it:
This was the first clue by whose aid
NJ. Mace solved the mystery.
The medical experts who examined
these relics offered the opinion that
they had been dismembered by an un-
professional hand. that they were the
limbs OF woman, and that they had
been in the well about month. The
well was emptied, but nothing further
was found In II.
During the next few days fragments
NJ hnman flesh we're tished out of the
Seine. more fragments were found
along The hanks of that river, together
with a thigh wrapped in blue knitted
shawl. NJ. Mace in his investigations
now came upon another clue. The pro-
prietor of a small riverside laundry
stated that about midnight on Decem'
her 10 he had enconntered' short
man In n long coat and tall hat scat
tering in the river some substance
which looked like pieces Of flesh,
which he took from basket upon his
arm. When Intercepted he replied,
with an embarrassed laugh:
az am batting the river for a good
days sport tomorrow"
Then the police officer Ringue re.
called that three rights later he had
met a man in the street near the Rue
Princesse, carrying parcel and a
hamper. He stopped him and asked
what he had. The man replied that
he ,,,or carrvinp a connie of hams,