A Diabolical Plot.
Some astounding particulars have now been obtained respecting a prisoner at Maza% n^med Marteau, who obstinately refused to give &iiy particulars about himself. The accused having- been identified by other prisoners now in custody, the police have continued their investigations, and have tound out a most extraordinary conspiracy to commit wholesale murder, in which the mother of Maneau and some joung women of disreputable character are impl.cated. Marteun hired a house near the Boulevard AJenilmontant, in Paris, and had a gang of well-cressed young women to persuade men of wealthy appearance to visit them In a dark passage there w.is a trap door, communicating with a cellar, in wt'ich were kept large kuives, newly sharpened, coarse sponges, and a tub to receive the blood of the victims Happily the arrest of *' Captain" .Vlarteau has put an end to this hideous plot. Several young women have already given evidence in the case.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 3
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154A Diabolical Plot. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 3
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