FRENCH MURDER MYSTERY

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 19

FRENCH MURDER MYSTERY

PARIS, September 29. The Daily Chronicle’s Paris correspondent states that the Seine mystery has been fathomed. On Apitil 8, 1920, a sack containing the mutilated remains of a man was discovered. It was first thought that the body was that of a British soldier, and then it was thought to be that of a Canadian orderly. After 18 months the police found that it was that of a waiter named Jobin, and they have arrested Jobin’s wife and Burger, her lover. It transpires that Jobin found Burger penniless. He gave him food and shelter, and found him a job. Burger lived with the Jobins, and made love to the wife, who assisted to murder her husband and dismember the body. The couple took the dead man’s savings and bought a cafe. Burger even compelled his step-daughter, aged 11, to assist in throwing the body into the Seine. When questioned bv the magistrate, the girl was so unnerved by fear of her step-father’s reprisals that she collapsed and was sent to hospital. LONDON, September 30. The Daily Chronicle’s Paris Correspondent states that Estelle Jobin confessed that Burger strangled her husband and put the body into three bags. Two were dropped into the Seine and the third was buried in a forest of Clamart. Yesterday Burger and Estelle Jobin were handcuffed and led the detectives to the forest. The earth was removed and the bag recovered. The woman did not wince, but the man fainted.