The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-06-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

AND  711 E  THE PARIS MYSTERY. A HORRIBLE STORY.  The murderers of M. Aubert, a Paris druggist, whoee body was found in the Seine a few days ago, are now in the bands of justice. The crime proves to he a deed of vengeance, deliberately concerted and carried out with a refinement of cruelty elmost unparalleled. After identifying the body as that of her brother M. Aubert, Methane Barbey informed the police that the murdered man had some time ago formed an illicit intimacy with Madame Feneyron, a married woman, and Madame Barbey stated her impression that he went on the evening of his 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 Fenoyron, Boulevard Gouvion, Saint cyr, for the perpetrators of the crime. M. Mace, the chief of police, at once proceeded thither and it was not many minutes before his questions elicited from Madame Feneyron the avowal that M. Aubert had hen murdered by her husband and her husband's brother. The arrest of the two men was immediately effected, and thy were at once taken to Versailles before the Judge d'lnstructlon. 13th denied their guilt. The brother was taken by the police through the villages of Pecq, Croisy. and Cha,eou in succession. At Chatqu the man was recognised bY the inhabitants as one of two having been seen frequently going to and from a secluded hoese near the village. This was at once visited, and an old 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 is week. On the return of the police to Versailles, Madame Feneyron gave a complete account of the crime. Her statement is to the effect that the murdered roan had been her lover. Some time ago her husband had becomeawareof her infidelity. The oannexion was then interrupted. Determined upon exacting vengeance, her husband had threatened to kill her unless 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 Waß then taken, the husband secured the co.operation of his brother, and the wife lured her lover to his doom. On the evening of the 18th of May. M. Arthur arrived at the cottage according to appointment, and found 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 and a walkingstick sword. As aeon as he was unconscious he was stripped of his clothes, doubled up, and bound with pome thirty feet of flattened lead p ping. His lips were then pinned together with two large shawl pine, and covered with a table napkin knotted at the back of his head. He was then placed in a cart previously provided, which was dragged by the two brothers to the Chatou bridge. Here the body was thrown into the Seine. On retui nine ti the cottage the murderers burnt the clothes of their viet m, 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 pi incipal murderer, was formerly in business as a druggist, and his victim, M. Aubert, served his appienticeehip to him. No crime since the Troptuann murders has excited such a sensation in Paris.