Harder In a Railway Carriage.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1660, 17 March 1886, Page 4

Harder In a Railway Carriage.

Parisihas just ffeen moved .(says, the London '.Daily News of January. 16) by a remarkable crime-ribe.' murder of M.Barrem4, the Perfect of, the : Eure, ma: railway ; carriage. H9 left Paris at 7 o'clock [m a.tr,aitt<:which first, stops at Pojssy. it 20 to 9. About 9 his body was foiindon the railway bridge near Maisons:Laftite, some 10 miles f|-oi^ Paris. He i had been Blwn about 20 minutes after leaving the capital. There had been, a struggle, for his cqat-sjeeve had .been,torji v off, though this might have been done, 'perhaps,; m the strain-, of lifting the dead body and ' throwing it. .out of the door. The cause, of death was a wound from a pißtpl- ball of small calibre or froniia life-preservers-accounts differ!. The motive of the criminal i« not to be guessed i from the facts /that' M. Barre'itie's watch and portfolio had been taken, while his purse and some, notes man envelope was left. It is quite conceivable that papers m the Prefects portfolio were th'e objects coveted by the. culprit, i It hat a}sp been suggesjted that a gang of card-sharpers' with whom ihe Pretect hadsinterferea may have';taken a deadly revenge. In any case, the crime shows every marjc pf a well-thought put and ! deliverately executed plan. The idea of throwing the body over the rail-way-bridge into the river was ingenious, as the Prefect would . have been missed for days, perhaps weeks, before any. one could h%ve, ascertained, that he had, been.murdered.' '^ : /:' ■