Glasgow Courier. — 1855-01-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER IN PARIS.  The Faubourg Montmartre was on Friday the scene of a terrible crime. A young woman, Zelia Roussel, lived for 10 years with • gentleman, but a few months ago he was obliged to separate from her, owing to a change in his position. Ile, however, was accustomed to go to her every day to take his meals. She occupied at No. 21, in the Faubourg, an apartment on the fourth story. At about 6 o'clock on Friday the gentleman went as usual to dine. Ile opened the outer door with a key he always carried with him, but he found the inner door fastened, and received no answei to his knocks. He went down to the concierge to ask after his mistress, and was told she was most likeiv at home, as half-an-hour before she had been seen returning with her provisions for the dinner. On this he went up stairs and stood on the landing to wait— reading his newspaper in the meantime. After reading sonic time he became impatient, and he begged a boy ho happened to pass logo for a locksmith. A little later a man came from the upper story, and hurried past hint in great haste. This man seemed anxious to avoid observation. The gentleman called to him when he was on the third story, with the intention of asking him to tell the concierge to send for a locksmith, but the stranger returned no reply. At the same moment some one was heard to say on the fifth story, 'lt was very strange, there is blood !' The gentleman asked what that meant, and was informed that the man who had just gone down stairs had entered the staircase by a window, and had left trares of blood on it and on the wall. The person who saw him added that he had asked him where be came from, but he had merely replied, 'The deuce! I have hurt my head; and, as he had supposed that he was a workman who had been employed in somejob, he had not stopped him. On this the gentlemao began to fear that a crime had been committed, and he begged the person to accompany him into the young woman's apartment. The door, which had been locked, was now open. Ile and his companion felt something wet beneath their feet, and, having got a light, they, to their horror, found themselves in the midst of a pool of blood. In the bedroom all the drawers were open, and the linen aml other objects w liich they had contained were found scattered about the floor. Near the door was a basket containing the provisions which Mademoiselle Zelis had bought for her dinner, and by the side of it her purse, containing a small sum. In the kitchen the young woman was found lying dead, with her clothes turned up over her head. On removing them the head was found almost severed from the body. The cries of the two men closed the neighbours to assemble, and the commissary ..f the police of the district, M. Land, was sent for. It was ascertained that several articles of jewellery had been stolen. It is supposed that the assassin, having aveended the staircase unseen by the concierge, had entered the apartment by the outer door, left open by the young woman, and had immediately commenced a search after the valuable property he had supposed was tv be found there; that she, hearing a noise, had gone to him; that he then murdered her in order to facilitate his escape, and had dragged the body into the kitchen. After perpetrating the crime, he had, it appeared, gone up to the fifth story, and, passing through • window, had climbed on to the roof, in the hope probably of escaping by some other house; but, not being able to do so, had returned through the window and descended the stairs, as already stated. A razor, stained with blood, was found on the roof, and a number of other circumstances calculated to lead to the arrest of the murderer have been brought to light.