The Shocking Discovery in Brussels

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 46, 28 September 1886, Page 4

The Shocking Discovery in Brussels

Julien MHsquelier, who was arrested on suspicion concerned in tbe death of the woman whose reruaius were lately discovered in Brussels, has made a complete confession. He states tb^.t a woman came from Ghent or Bruges h" does not know which, on the 20th of June, to the Rue de Prague. She went away next morning, but returning the same evening, and remained there eight days. Ho did not know what took place during that timo, but the died on the 28i;h June. His mistress told him she did not dare to make a declaration of the death on account of her relations with the authorities, and asked him to assist her in getting rid of the body. He and his mistress cut it up with a knifo all but the head, which be cut off with a chopper. Notwithstanding the woman had been dead eight hours, the blood spurted all over the room, on the walls, the floor, and on Masquelier. His mistress told him to put the arms and legs in a sack and leave thenr at the end of the Rue Frosney, which is usually deserted at night. Everything was done in great haste. The body was wrapped up in seaweed, which had been put aside with some old papers. It was the discovery of these papers which led to the tracing of th« criminals. It was ten o'clock at night when the sack was carried out and left in the street. Mme. Kodelet went out shortly after and scattered the clothes about where they were found by the police. In reply to the examining magistrate, Masquelier said the woman Rodelet undertook to get rid of the head, and he believed she had. burned it. The woman Eodelet, when confronted with Masquelier, emphatically denied his statements. He,. wh« appeared to be in a state of nervous excitement, hesitated to repeat the details which he had already made in his declaration. When the depositions, had been read over, JJodelet cried, " Julien, how can you, who owe me everything, be so ungrateful as to lie for the purpose of ruining me?" Masquelier trembled violently, but adhered to his statement. The woman then became so violent and swore so fearfully that she had to be removed.