THE SHOCKING DISCOVERY IN BRUSSELS. Horrible Revelations.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 7

THE SHOCKING DISCOVERY IN BRUSSELS. Horrible Revelations.

-JuVeNv^asquelier, w ho' was arrestedon suspicion concerned in the death of the woman whose remains- were lately discovered in Brussels, has made a complete ■ confession. He states that a woman came from Ghent or Brughes, he doeß not know which, on the 20th of June, to the Rue de Prague. She went away next morning, but returned the same evening, and remained there eight; daye. fie did not -kn.ow what took place during that time, but she died on the 2Sth June. His mistress told him ehe 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 knife, •all but the head, which he cut oft with » -chopper. Notwithstanding the woman had boen dead eight hours, the blood spurted all over the room, on the walls, the floor, and on/Nfasquelier. HiS mistress told him to put the armfi and legs in a «ack and leave them at the end of the Rue Frosny, which ia usually deserted at night. Everything was done in great haste. The body was wrapped up in seaweed, which had teen put aside with Borne old papers, It was the discovery of these papers which led to the tracing of the criminals. It was ten o'clock at night when the sack was carried out and left in the Btreet. Mme. Kodelet went out shortly after and scattered ''the clothes about where they were found by the police. In reply to the examinving trag:» f 'ia'e, Masquelier said that the woman Kcdelet undertook to get rid of the ii«id, and he believed she had burned it The woman Rodelet, when confronted with Masquelier. emphatically denied his statements. Ho, who 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, Rodelet cried, " Julien, how can you, who owe me everything, be so un grateful as to lie for the purpose of ruining me ?" Marquelier trembled violently, but adhered to his statement. The woman then became so violent and 3wore so fearfully that she had to be removed.