A GHASTLY CRIME.
A ctistioTery was made iii Paris 6h Sece'mber 4 of what promises to be one of the most horrible and mysterious crimes ever committed in that city. Sofne hunteth remains were found at Menilmo'nbant. and at about the same time a human, trunk wa.s discovered in The Fauboutg St. Denis. Th? trunk was eiMdehtly that of a young man, and the other remains were as eldarly part of the feaino body. The body had "been shockingly mutilated. The nose and lips had been cut off, evidently for tn£ pufjSoi'e' of prevehtihg identification, arid tie various parts of tk% body had been treated in such.it mariner as doubtless the murderer hope 4 .Tvould make it difficult or even impossible to prove that the reinaihs weftj' th6se of one" arid the sariie human body. The immediate cause of death was a fearful wound inflicted in the throat. But there . were other and indescribable wounds and mutilations, while the artiis and legs had been cut ifltc sectidhs. Decomposition had n6t set in, so that it is clear tnat tfee ftiufder ffa£ cdmniittsd tvithin a day ot two of the discovery of the body, to the perpetrator of this ghastly crime has yet been obtained.
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Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 2
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204A GHASTLY CRIME. Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 2
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