THREE MYSTERIES OF PARIS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 15 June 1920, Page 5

THREE MYSTERIES OF PARIS

The mystery of the headless trunk fished up from the Seine at Bougival has not been solved (says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegsgph), and, as a result of information supplied by people Whose friends are missing, it has been decided to exhume the body, . take measurements and photographs, and open a new inquiry. It seems that an Englishman has been missing from Courbevoie for a month, and his French friends have reported his disappearance, pointing out that he has a scar on his breast, apparently caused by the kick of a horse. The information given will be verified, but it is stated that there are no marks on the chest of the body taken from the Seine. What has led the authorities ; to institute a new inquiry is a statement-made by two British officers attached to .'the* British police in Paris to the effect that an English aviator, known as Lieutenant Rayjnold or Eayneau, has been missing for about a year. The fact that there was linen of British make on the body,. and that it was wrapped in a sleeping sack such as is used in the British Army, has suggested that the body might be . that of the missing airman. The body had been in the water for about 12 days, and there is a theory that, after all, it may be that of a- Frenchman, who, it is argued, could have obtained British-made linen and an army sleeping sack. Another baffling mystery now being inquired into by the Palis police is the disappearance of Mary Ellen Appel, an American relief worker. The girl had made preparations to leave for Vienna to continue her work with the Society of Friends, and she disappeared a few hours before the time fixed for her departure. As to the discovery of the ifody in the Seine of M. DesJardins, a wealthy man, who disappeared from Chaville, the mystery of his death is not yefc definitely cleared up. There are no marks on the body suggesting violence, and the 'theory of suicide is now being discussed.