The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-11-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HOTRIBLE DISCOVIRY IN PARIS. 14  A crimirecalling some of the most Weil-curdling tales of the "Arabian Nights " has been brougat to light in Paris. The headless body of is man was I found in the cellar of No. 27 Bite de Charouue, an important thoroughfare in the East-end. The building bearing the above number contains some forty tenements and several workshops. There* a large courtyard in front, and at the cornir of the entrance gate is the porter's lodge. At night the gate is closed, but belated lodgers cs.t.n always enter by a small side door, which is loft unloe.ed the whole night long. A door in the courtyard at the top of the steps leading down to the cellars is also left unlocked. At the end of the courtyard are the .workaliops of Messrs. Vaeheresse and Ltirdenais, cabinet makers. Two workmen named Dirckx and Camas, in the employ of the firm, went down to the cellar to find a peeking case for some ("heirs that were jast finished and about to be sent to La Rochelle. Dirckx looked. round ono cellar end then passed into a smaller compartment. He was about to lift up the cover of one of the wooden cases when close by he saw another, and drew back with horror LIA he became convinced, by the light of the candle in his hand, that it contained a corpse. He called to his fellow workman, and after a moment's terrified inspection they were able to realise that to body , was headless, and that it was already in a state of decompegbion. They then rushed up the stgigcase and fbld M. Vacheresse what had occuralii. Several police officers, including the famous detective, Jaume, soon arrived. The remains were summarily examined by Dr. Descouts, who informed M. Atthalin, the examining magistrate, that the crime must have been committed more than twenty-four hours, and that the decapitation had probably taken place in she cellar itself. A sub. sequent search made by Inspector Janine gives colour to the doctor's theory. Streaks of blood in the outer cellar, a small piece of wood with bloodistaine, and some candle euds in bottles, show that the murderer dragged his dead victim into the smaller uook and then placed the body in the box where it was found. A thin rope found in the larger cellar may have been used to strangle the unfortunate man, who, judging from his hands awl general appearance, was a workman, about twentysix years of age. Beyond the fact that the head had been serered, there were no signs of violence upon the body. A man named Charles Joseph Vaucourt has made a full confession of the murder. The headless corpse was identified as that of a young man named Leon Boutry, twenty-three years of age, who was arrested for insulting the police during a Boulangist riot in 1888. V aucourt is a man of about thirty, and a confirmed scoundrel. When in the Ar oat of his time was spent in prison, and after elb th piration of his militar-, -ervice was ..1 not onl -wtoe sentenced for robbery, fltt was implicated in a case of murder and- rape at Besancon. His arrest was brought about by the activity and skill of the police. Boutry was no chance acquaintance, but an associate in the vice of Vaucourt, who has given details of the crime. Both lie and his victim were intoxicated, and during the night Boutry struck the prisoner, who was rendered furious by the blow, and retaliated by strangling his comrade. He afterwards carried the body to the cellar where it , was discovered, and afterwards cut off the head, , which he threw into the public latrines on the Ouai Henri IV. The head was afterwards found 1 to there by the police.  MR. GLAMITONE ON apH E