THE PARIS MURDER—THE WOMAN CUT IN TWO.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 88, 16 April 1877, Page 4

THE PARIS MURDER— THE WOMAN CUT IN TWO.

[London Telegraphy The great' Paris murder, known as "the woman cut in two," which Jibs been the talk of the town for so many weeks past, bos at length been thoroughly cleared up. Billoir, the man arrested on suspicion, has made a full confession in the presence of the examining judge. "On Nov. 2, Le Jour dea Mortß," began the prisoner, " Marie de Manach wen^jjlO) an office for servants oat of work, i* the Rue St. Denis, and ifiBcrib'eoT^her name. While there she met one. ot her countrywomen, who treated her to some drink, and when ' she returned home to our lodging in the Rue dea Trois Frerea she was drunk, aud broke a gilt glass, which I prized dearly as a souvenir. I got, out of temper, and as she stooped down to' pick ,up the fragments, I kicked her, in. the stomach, and she fell like a etone at niy^feet. ' It waa about 11 o'clock nt night. I tried all I could to bring her round, but I soon discovered she was dead. At three o'clock in the afternoon on. the following day I resolved to get rid of the body. I undressed it, and covered the floor with a thick layer of sawdust, of which I had a great quantity brogbt home by me from the Northern Railway at the time I worked there. I opeoed the body with a razor, took out the viscera and placed them 1 in a large pan used for washing up the crockery. 1 then cut out the vertebral column with a chisel, using the hammer you found in my room. w Here the prisoner stopped for a

moineiit to wipe away the heavy drops of perspiration which rolled down hie face, and to refresh himself with a glass iof water. " Towards nine o'clock in the evenjing," he resumed id a feeble voice, | after having carefully wrapped up the • two halves of the body in linen under- ; cloth ing f j and a waterproof, ,andi~ made 1 them' into tight parcels, I took? the' upper ; part of the body to Clichy, where I ) threw it into the i fiver. On the next iday, the same hour, I did the same with jthe Wber'half. ■ I bound the'arraa'ania | legs together with rope to prevent theta ! moving id the evetifc of t the : : psrcels I coming undone in the water. I out off I the hair and threw a part, together' I with the razor and the chisel, down the j drain in the Rue Cadet or, -.theJtpe. | Rocheohouart, I don't remember which; As for the .viscera and the, remainder of the hair, 1 threw them down the watercloset of, par house. . I -do.. -pot know Clichy.' I found myself unawares on , the banks of ' tHe Seine. 1 'I met nobody there on . the first day, and was able to tie^a'jafgtf stone rdtind toe neck at my ■ease." ; Heif'6 BilldiP *a 3 gairi refused to aay^.anvthiag^ more, but, i pressed by the magistfsVe to unburden ' ! his^mjo^.cpmpletely, he continued after ,a"few minutes' silence:-— ; "On the second day I carried the I other portion of tEe body under my arm, taking care to : .hide, it with my !coat, which is l very ample one; but - ijusc as I bad tied a stone to the legs j land thrown the parcel into the water, jl saw a boat) in" which'l.thin&il perceived two men. I ran away across the 'Gelds,::' and : having iiidden (myself for ibalf an hour, returned home about, 'midnight, and eet to work to remove all i traces of the crime." , Such is : the : prieqner'a cenfession. jAa soon as^ it was taken down the asked i hioi to sign:U" WP jlovr, towards the tableland, I taking \ (he pen in one hand while he ;Bupporteff <^Ia ;head; mtti ihe jiihar, ihe jappeaded^ his signature. He ( then, j fainted" and remaiced inseniible fora Iquarter of an hour,,,. On recovering; b,e. | was led back to his cell. It must be jadded that many., 0f ... the statements [made by Billoir are contrary to the :factß ; of r the critae. For- example, he isay^ tha jfiurder4waß .perpetratod on the ■2nd November, whereas the neighbors Isaw her alive on t^he 6th, ani.the^medical autppsy- proves' that ' wbW the iremains were found on the Bth they had mot been in 1 the water more ihan a day jTbe prisoner, it is thought, has comjmitted these inaccuracies in order to elude the charge of premeditation, and to make the crime appear as the resu t of a sudden quarrel. He was again visited by the examining magistral, ■but refused to give any more particu;iara. Since his confession he has bean in a most weak and prostrate state. 1 ** ' "' ."

; It may be interesting to many to know poi only, the amqant of the .English national debt-, but the differjent epochs atiwhich it has naen to its present enormous amount, Ia 1688 • th? debV was' '£664',00p;*' by the wars of William and Mary it wbb increased by twelve mUlionaj. by those of.: Queen . An'faf tweniy-fchree millions and a ■ haifj ! George. I. sixteen /million ; afld ; a iqu'arter; George If.eightymiliions tWo ; hundred thousand pound's ;~a'u ring the | American war, pne, hunted t-nd eighjteen millions, ; a half,; .^during j the Crimean war one hundred and ilhirty-seven millions. ;'. The Abyßsinian | war incteaa^i^fimtiupiib^ f}ve miljlione, mak,iDg.a gross , total oiF between ;eigb,t arid nine hundred miihona. The iFrench war cost do less than five hunjdred add : nioety-ope/ jnillipn^ undr a ihaV^.: :•-.;. :■..• .- -::«■ /• V/.ii" "-1. I The Bslfa.stNjws Letter still con;tinuea to;r misrepresent New Zaalandi/ ; although it has not of late been supplied jwith any furtheb.Ww material from Mr jj. G. S. Giant. This time it assails ■ jMriVeaey^fStewart; the founder of i>i\t^ jKati" -B^iti •'■ VpeciiV; ' ieitymfmkl ? ft< jcbkrge& ! hitD v wit6'haying .impoverished i Ulster ' 7 J)'y, f t»^jng away, people who !were 1 :",a.8.-m'ucn wanted and more wpl- f jco.meJn Ulster than they could boany--1 where .else." The article prpceeds tjo ; iadvise those farmers who may be jthinking of goiug out to the Vesey •Stewart sttlement to '.'aek themselves if :they would not be better at home with jtheir capital, among friends in a civilised jcountry, than away at the 1 wall of the world's end, with hordes of suvpges on Uheir borders." The News-Letter proiceeda to state, "on reliable authority,.! 'that the country generally is not in a iprosperous condition ;" in support of.: jwliich it quotes from ihe Timaru . \Herdld a proposed reduction of shearers'. !Wogeß, and from the ISapier Baily ■ Telegraph, a complaint by a correa jpondent, who says he is " one of Ltbe many who will leave on the first chance [he ciin'get." The News-Letter eon- ; eludes>y saying:" There are thousands ;in the'colony of the same notion, and |we would advise those who do even. reasonably well at home to stay at home." Now, the falsity of this sor.t of misrepresentation is of course Sufficiently manifest here, but it may Vlo the colony some little harm at home. It iB the fact that Mr Vesey Stewari'J special settlement in the Auckland province has been a decided success, ] .und that the permanent prosperity of Jhose who took part in it;is vow assured. These, settlers will ultimately, as freeholders, do far better than if they had remained at Home, and their children .will attain a still higher social positiou. Of course there are some " croakers" in the colony who write Home doleful tales to their friends, but iheir number | is but few. and the sooner they . clear

out the better will it be for New Zealand. — Post.