Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-01-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDERER'S CONFESSION.  TERRIBLE ORDEAL AT THE MORGUE IN PARIS.  The terrible "confrontation at the Morgue j with the bodies of victims which murderers have I to undergo, according to the French law, has been too much for Corporal Woruay, who wag nil Thursday arrested on suspicion for .the nrarderof Madam lions, the hearer- or a small wine:' stare on the rowlevard Saint-Germain. Worms)! had left a piece of an envelope • ith hie sidelress j on it at the shop of his victim, and it was picked up by an astute police olicer. The soldier 'AD arrested in his barracks at St. Quentin, • and it was proved that he had teen absent on leave in P11[1.4 at the tune of the murder. Fur- , thermore, small jewels and trinkets belonging to Madam Roux were found 111 his valise, while a 1 woman had received frcen him two watches---one gold and the other eilver —as well as a bracelet, which had been taken from the victim's abode. When approaching the dismal Morgue yesterday for "confrontation" with the corpse Gijomay shuddered, bat gazed On the dead body, when , the winding-sheet was thrown off, without apparent emotion. He afterwards said that be would make a elean breast of it, and told the 'Age that another person had done the deed in his presence. After two hours af persistent cross-examination at the Morgue Geomay ' gave in and made • fell confession. He raid that he came to Paris on leave last Friday,, and found that his mother was in prison for • theft at the Bon Mardi-. He had no money, PO be bethought himself of Madam 'Boils, whom be had known two years ago when he was emtairl eaartdato groceryola ws,t Tonrae Hi in pot h emi of fdaus Sac. He lthy j and avaricious. Before making up his mind to • commit the crime he had wandered all over the city ; visited the Exhibiti in works, and finally gone into the reading-room of the Bon March j, whence he wrote to his untie at Saint Quentin, j telling her that when he returned from Paris I they would have "a good spree" together. and I that lie would bring her some presents. Ou Sunday he breakfasted and dined with a man who keeps a curiosity shop, and is • general dealer. In the establishment of this person he taw a hammer, which he "annexed," and 1 carried away under his military cloe4r. At 8.30 1 o'clock he went to Madam Ross's shop, and se 1 she came in from putting up her shutters he felled her to the groand with a blow of the 1 hammer, and pulled down the iron screen over the door of the establishment. Then, as his victim was groaning on the floor, he dragged her into • room off the shop and battered in her skull. When -she was dead be searched the house, took £3 in Money. the %etches, and, the jewels. He sat down for three hours in an arm chair by the dial •body, not daring to go out. At j half-past twelve he went away and- crossed the' Pont NenfAung the hammer into the river, and 'mode off towards the Central Markets. Next ' morning he proceeded, after having breakfasted, to the railway station, and took the train for Saint Quentin, where his regiment was quartered. On arriving there be went to see the woman Cellist's and gave her the jewels. They had a carouse together, and drank nothing but chant pagne. The prisoner is a young fellow about twenty, and although he received a fair education it the Primary Schools iii Paris, his character, both in civil and military life, has been execrable. His mother. moreover, is it notorious , thief. Yesterday morning he was taken to the 1 shop of his victim, and described the crime which he had committed with almost cynical calmness and *convoy.  THE CHANNEL TUNNEL PROTECT,--AU extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Channel Tunnel Company (Limited) wait held at London Bridge at noon on Thursday. In the absence of Sir E. Watkin, Lord Brabourne presided, and moved the adoption of the following resolution :—" That a Bill be introduced in the present session of Parliament, entitled • A Bill to authorise experimental works for a tunnel beneath the Straits of Dover, to be maintained and continued, and for other , purposes be, and the sap& is hereby approved." —The resolution wan seconded by Lord Bothfield' and unanimously adopted. I • . ACTION FOR WItoNGFOL