The Poole Telegram. — 1882-06-16 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE PARIS MYSTERY. A HORRIBLE STORY. The Murderers of M. Aubert, a ,Paris druggist, whose bode was (minden the Seine • few days ago, are now in the bands .of justice The crime proves to be a deed of vengeattce, deliberately concerted and carried out with a refinement of cruelty almost unparalleled. After identifying the body as that of her br ether M. Auhert, Madame Barbey informed the police that the murdered men had some time ago formed an illicit intimacy with Madame Feneyren, a married woman, and Madame Berbey stated her impression that he went on the evening of hie disappearance to keep an appointment made be his mistress. The police were about to follow up this clue when they received an anonymous letter directing them to inquire of Madame Fenvyron, Boulevard Gouvion, Saint ryr, for the perpetrators of the crime. M. Mace, the chief of police, at once proceeded thither and it was not many minuted before his questions elicited from Madame Feneyron the avowal that M. Aubert had b en murdered by her husband mad her husband's brother. The arrest of the two men was immediately effected, and th..y were at once taken to Verimilles before the Judge d'insiructiou. B ntt denied their guilt. The brother was taken by the police through the villages of Pecq, Croisy, and Chatou in succession. At Chatou the mars was recegnised by the inhabitants as one of two having been seen frequently going to and from a secluded Media near the village. This WAS at once visited, and an eld woman was found there, who, after eome hesitation, stated that on the day when the crime was supposed to have been committed, two men, of whom the prisoner was one, and a woman, had installed themselves in the house, which she had let to them a day or two before for a week. On the return of the police to Versailles, Madame Feneyron gave a complete aceount of the crime. Her statement ie to the effect that the murdered man had been her lover. Some time ago her husband had become aware of her in fidelity. The oonnexion was then interrupted. Determined upon exacting vengeance, her Unhand had threatened to kill her unlees she would place her lover in his power. His threats drove her to consent to Join in laying a trap for him. The cottage at Chatou was then taken, the husband secured the co-operation of his brother, and the wire lured her lover to his doom. On the evening of the 18th of May, M. Arthur arrived at the cottage according to appointment, and fennel Madame Feneyron there, but with her husband and brother-in.law. He was immediately struck down by the two men with blows from a hammer soda walkingetick sword. As aeon as be was unconscious he was stripped of his clothes, didbled up, and bound with some thirty feet of flattened lead p ping. His lips were then pinned together with two large shawl pine, and covered with stable napkin knotted at the back of his head. Be was then placed in a cart previously provided, whioh was dragged by the two brothers to the Ohatou bridge. Here the body was thrown into Cue Seine. On returning to the cottage the murderers burnt the clothes of their victM, while Madame Feneyron took the train for Paris, in the conviction that every trace of their crime was for ever effaced. It is to be added that M. Feneyron, the principal murderer, was formerly in babe's as • druggist, and his victim, M. Aubert, served his apprenticeship to him. No crime since the Troptuann murders has excited such a sensation in Paris.