MURDER WILL OUT.

Kumara Times, Issue 1054, 16 February 1880, Page 4

MURDER WILL OUT.

A tragedy has been brought to light in Paris. A woman named Levy, in walking along the Boulevard de la Chapelle, observed a man' in a blouse, with waxed moustaches, emptying out of a basket pieces of what appeared to her to be fresh meat, and kicking them into a sewer. When he observed that her curiosity was aroused, he took to flight, throwing down the basket. She approached the sewer's month, when, perceiving a human arm, she. fainted. A crowd immediately gathered, and a commissary of police was fetched. The pieces were collected and put' together by a surgeon, who pronounced the contents of the basket to be a human corpse. The he«d alone of all the,members was. missing. An enquiry was set on foot, and the woman Levy was sent for by the commissary. On entering his office she knocked against an agent in uniform, which led her to turn round to look at him in order to apologise. She suddenly cried out, "There's the assassin." The persons who were with her thought her mad from emotion, but were astounded when she repeated the accusation, to see the policeman grow pale, tremble, and rush out of the room. He was arrested on the stairs and brought back, when, falling on his knees, he avowed the crime. The murdered man was a traveller for a Paris jeweller, and had several boxes of jewels, which he was to have taken to the provinces as specimens. The murderer, one Prevost, inveigled him, under pretext of wanting to buy a watch chain, to his lodging. There he offered him a glass, of wine, and while the- two were hobnobbing, suddenly struck him with a hammer on the fore head, and killed him instantaneously. He proceeded to cut up the body on the spot, and next morning he went to the La Chapelle sewer to hide the evidences of the murder. It was his intention, by boiling the head, to render identification impossible.