FRENCH CRIME.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

FRENCH CRIME.

I'akis has another mysterious tragedy to solve. Whether it is a case of minder or suicide remains to be seen. On Thuisday evening, May Gth, about 11 o'clock, awuildressed young man called at a furnished lodging-house in the Rue do Bac and rented a double room. An hour after a young woman, thickly veiled, came and joined the first comer. Nothing moie was heaid from them by the porter in charge. Next day about noon the porter, not lining seen the lodger nor having heard from the 100 m, ascended and knocked at the door. It was already ajar. He opened it, and was met with the sight of the young man lying dead upon the undisturbed bed. The follow ing letter was on the table. "lean live no longer. I have committed an infamy. Let no one be accused of mj death. lam goiay: to poison myself. May (Jod paidon me. Will life over there be n ore a^icoab'e than the one I have led on this earth.' 1 hope so.

A BASTIDE DE BesAN'COX. Tho young woman had disappeared. When she leit the house and how ?*ho got out without being seen by the potter aie unexplained. The authorities suspect the murder of Bosancon by his female companion. The French authorities have exhausted e\ery dramatic device to extort, a confession from Pranzini, but have thus fur failed. Some of the scienti.-ts of Paii-> have advocated the placing of I'ian/ini under mesmeric influence, to see if lie would not, while in that condition, repeat the story of the tragedy, but in answer to this plan it is asked what weight could be given by any court to such evidence ? If Pranzini could be placed u\ a mebmeiir: condition any story he then would tell could but be regarded as leilcctionh of tho mind of the operator.