The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-06

Woonsooket,, r, L. July 6. -
Henri de shower, 80 years old, was
arrested this afternoon a few min
utes after the heldless body taker
from the Blackstone river last Tues
day morning was satisfactorily iden
| titled as that of Angela Parmenter
a young French woman, with whom
he lived up to June 4 last, when
She mysteriously disappeared.
De Shower has not been charged
with the crime. To enable the po-
lice to work further on his case,
he has been chai sed with having
had immoral relations with the wo
man. who left her husband IN
France to elope with the prisoner
two years ago. He will be arraign-
ed before Judge McFee this morn
ing
The man has admitted little that
can be regarded as strikingly i'm
portant to the authorities He was
crosse mined from . o'clock this
afternoon until midnight and at
/ that hour the chief of police de
clared he would continue the ques.
tioning until o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Admits that They Quarreed.
De shower does admit. however,
that on the night of June 3K they
quarreled bitterly. She scratched
him four times. he says. The next
morning he left the house at 5
o'clock to fish When he returned
at 1880 at night he says he found
the woman had stolen $4S from him
and had fled with her trunk.
The mIan. who had q good posi-
tion in a mill here, did not go back
to work during the week in which
the woman disappeared. He worked
but two days during the next week.
"Yes, It Looks Like Angela
The police went to his home this
morning at No. 367 Cumberland
street, where he has been living for
three weeks. and asked him to look
at the headless form placed in a
vault in the disused cemetery,
Yes, it looks like Angela" he
said after a minute or SO, 'tut her
legs were not so stout
The bodys stay in the water
could he responsible for such a
change. Next came Mrs, Louis Van
lie Vile and Mrs. Frances Veras-
heault, who live on Cumberland
street. BY the fiat ankles, peculiar
ly developed muscles of the back
and a strange curve of the back,
10th women declare they were sure
the body is that of the Parmenter
woman. There was no doubt, they
insisted. that she was the murder
victim
They had said they could sweep
away all disbelief in the positive
ness of their Identification by look
ing at the left shoulder They had
noticed on that shoulder marked in
'bHe rl the monogram Il. D."
With either e52' or '25S" along
side. The light in the vault was
very dim. Detective sutton brought
The body further into the sunlight.
Then be made The important dis
eovery that the skin for many in
,hes on the left shoulder had APP
larently been cut away
Blood Stains on Night Dress.
De Shower was taken to the pod
ice station Before he got there !
Peter Tessier and Noel 14arochelle, I
living on the Mansville road. had ar
lived with a bundle OF woman's /
lothng found on Motifs farm, two
niles below where the body was dis
oyered. This clothing was tied to-
ether with a long length of thin
ope. The free end of the rope was
Ooped It seemed that it had held
weight designated to keep the
undle beneath the rivers surface.
VI the many articles of clothing the
ight dress received primary atten-
on 1t was in five strips, either
)rn or cut that way from the
carer. and it was stained brown in
iany places. Assistant Medicas EX-
miner Z. /. Myers said the stains
ere OF blood.
A blue silk waist was in three
eces. The waist had either been
rn or cut from the body. A
ack skirt was in two pieces and
lowed jagged cuts. There was a
ne checked gingham apron. It's
lt was cut near the apron but the
ds were still tied together. A
bite corset cover, pair of brown
1csings aud a pair of round CART
5 also were in the bundle.
-lsoner Identifies Clothing.
All these were shown to De Shov-
After a quick but calm exami- l
IN be said they had belonged to I
: Parmentier woman. Mrs. Yer {
chault and Mrs. Won De Vile YER Z
ID this. The latter woman looked S
rticularly at a silk packet with '
,tal buttons and braid trimming
a lacking the right sleeve. She 4
d she had been With the victim I
ea she alone ht IT,. 49, E
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