GHASTLY MURDER AT BRUSSETS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 11, 22 July 1882, Page 3

GHASTLY MURDER AT BRUSSETS.

I-eon Peltz r, anas Henry Vaughn n, who !;:i.s jur some week* hoeu in cusi iody at russels on suspicion of being the chief actor in the my-teriou* murder of H. Benays, a local lawyer, has at length made lull con'ession of the crime. Bernays, i: will be rernem* b^red, having left his home at Antwprp one .nj "riling' for Brussels on ?>usiness, v»nistied inexplicably' from human ken until, nearly a fortnight! later, his corpse was discovered in an uninhabited house situate in a quiet street of the Belgian capital, reclining in an armchair behind a table covered with maps and prospectuses. Peltzer states tlit, after having shot M. Bernays dead, he fled from Brussels to Antwerp, where he broke into his victim's house by night, stole all the valuables he could lay Lands on, and restored the legal ciocuments which Bernays had brought with him on his death journey to their place in the deceased's desk. He also purloined a suit of the murdered lawyer's clothes which (having ascertained by telegraph from bis brother and accomplice that the mun'« had not been discovered) he conveyed to Brussels. I here he re-entered the house in which the corpse was lying, and proceeded to substitute the stolen garments for the blood-stained raiment worn by Bernays at the time of his assassination. In order to do this, the body having stiffened during the interim, Peltzer _" .found himself c> mpelled " to 'break both its arms. By this ghastly confession the Bernays mystery which at one time threatened to baffle solution, has been finally cleared up. — Puneclin Star.