SOUVENIRS MADE OF A MURDERER'S SKIN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1414, 21 December 1887, Page 6

SOUVENIRS MADE OF A MURDERER'S SKIN.

The Paris correspondent of the 1 Daily News ' writes : —The horrible news was cried some days ago on the Boulevards tbat a part of Pranzini'a skin was tanned and dressed, and, as if it had been Eussian leather, turned into a couple of note purses. The news about the two purses was only half believed, but an inquiry set on foot by Dr Brouardel shows that it was true. What is more, it was a police constable desirous of standing well with his superiors who thought of turning the late murderer's skin to industrial use, in order to make out of it a pair of souvenir purses. His name is Bossignol or Nightingale. One day in being treated by an ex-constable, one G-odinet, who is now an attendant at the amphitheatre of surgery, the latter told him that he bad a large piece of the notorious murderer's Bkin. He had picked it up in the Anatomical Detritus, where he was told to destroy a piece of the flesh off the thigh, and had torn the skin from it. Rossignol obtained it fop a trifle, took it to a maker of fancy purses, and got him to make, at a cost of 15f apiece, two elegant purees for MM Taylor and Goron, who fill important offices at the Prefecture of Police. The tradesman who made them went with the story to the Figaro, which gave it in a muffled-up form. MM. Taylor and G-oron then felt they had been wrong in accepting such a horrible gift, and went to Bouchez, the Pro-curator-General, to deliver them over to him. The underlings mixed up in the matter have been dismissed.