The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-04-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CONFESSION OF MURDER BY A YSFIAN.  An extracr linary sensation has, according to a despatch from N tsliville (Tenn.), been caused in Clarkeecille and I broiler-tut M intgomery County hy the confession of Dr. Francois Fontettey—a wealthy medical practitioner, who died on Wednesday—that he had been guilty of the murder of a clergyman of the Anglican Church. In 1165 the Rev. A. M. Feltn. r, the rec!or of the Clarkesville Episcopal Church, mysteriously disappeared, and although every irtjutry WilS made, and a vigilant search ie stained, no trice of him could be found. Dr. Fonteney, in the confession which he has WI. admits having murdered Mr. Feltner, under the :t•lkwing eirt umstances : tie was the physician whir tt Mr, heltn r, whose illness terminated ;lastly. The case was so peculiar in it features •hat he determined to steal the body, after it had in en huriid,fer the purpose of holding an autopsy. lie had the body removed from the grave, and was just preparing to replace the earth when liC tweived a sev re blow from behind, and on turning camd he found himself face to face with the in-ITH:int and criet-stricken husband. The Rev. Mr. Pettit. r made :moth. r attack upon the doctor, whet reialiatrd with a tremendous blow with his shoe, I. wind' struck the clergyman on the head. In lector hoped simply to stun his adversary, and Deis make his escape. The shovel, however, penetrated 'he skull, and death was instantaneous. 'I ire rrified hector placed the clErgyman's body in the coffin, and refilled the grave. The ram , washed away the traces of his terrible night's work. Ike Rev. Mr. Feltner's disappearance, although it was the subject of much speculation at the time, was almost forgotten long before the doctor's death. rhe doctcr hold the autopsy, which resulted in an 4nportant discovery, given to the public many rears ago. Dr. Fonteney, who was a batiketor until his death. adopted the two children of Mr. trot Mrs. Feltner, and left them his entire fortune. In his confession the doctor stated that he had miried Mrs. Feltner's body in the cellar of lot, ' 'mouse, and there the remains have been found. They will now be re-interred by the side of the husband.  The celebrated oculiet, Duke Charles Theodore r Bavaria, a member of the Bavarian Royal famili. itertormed Ida two thousandth operation for cataract at his private hospital in Munich, on Pride!" last. flis consort and the Duchesses Charles awl opleia assisted on the occasion. A man named Pierre Raune has been tried at the ieine Assizes for the murder of his wife. Itie pritoner, who had systematically and barharonsly ,naltreated his victim for eight years, deliberately ,brew her out of the window on November 4th last. Madame Raune died an hour or two afterwards, whilst the murderer was quietly drinking a bottle of wine in an adjoinng room. The prisoner, who was lefended by Maitre Deschamps, was condemned to lO years' penal servitude. It was an absent-minded physician who told 111 F tailor to make him up the same mixture as before. • string of sausages has been defined av connecting links between the human and the tiv creation  First citizen: "How is it that so many Londe:, light shy a home rule ?" Second ditto: "1 tn••• Y. it is because it begius with the letter h."  "Hello!" he said, facetiously, "the moon e. reformed. It isn't full." "No,' replied his 'vie. "nut money appears to be as tight as usual."