A CAREER OF CRIME.
The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s Paris corr. spendent, telegraphing on Monday says : —The trial of the policeman Provost, who murdered and mutilated a jeweller named Lenoble, took place to-day-. In the evening of September 10, between eight and nine o’cl *ck, t>vo women, named Thirty and Cara-l, were struck by the strange appearance of an indi ■ vidual who was passing the Kuo La Chapelle, Clad in a long blue bl use, with a silk cap on his head, this man of singularly tall statute carried a black basket on his arm, ami as he cam-! up to the opening* of the sewer he took a parcel out of Ids basket, throw it down the sewer, giving it » push with his f.-ot. The two women, followed up the man until he disappeared in a side street* They picked up a hme to whic ; some flesh still adlieted, and took it into a chemist’s shop _where they were told it was the bone of a hrnnati arm. The Commissaire of Police being informed of the fact, caused searches to to be made that very night in the sewer * of the quarter, and 80 fragments were found, which when put together, formed the body of a man. the head alone being missing. Tire women thought that the man in the blouse resembled PreVost, the policeman who, it was found, had on tiiat evening exchanged duty with another, on the pretext that he was helping a friend to move. Provost was sent for, and questioned on the way he bed employed his time* His answers were confused. The Commissaire of Police then brusquely confronted him with the remains, ud asked where the head was. Provost lost countenance*, and confessed that the head was in hitrooms. The police made an examination of the rooms, and discovered not omjf the head of the victim, but al§o a qnanl., of jewellery and the instruments that, had been used for cutting up the body.. Light was soon thrown upon this luguK ions history. The victim wks a commission agent in jewellery. He had relations with Prevost, who wanted 10 buy a gold chain, payable in monthly bills of 25fr. The bids were to be signed at Prevost’s lodging on September 10. While Lenoble was showing hia wares Prevost struck him on the head with a heavy inm ball that is used for screwing up the connecting-links in railway carriages. Before being a policeman Prevost had been a butcher, aid remembe ing his old trade, he took a knife and chopper, and cut up the body of his victim. This operation took him nearly ail day, and after throwing the pieces into the sewers, he went at nine o’clock and supped at a wine shop. He slept at his lodging,- and returned to hisditty soon as if nothing had happened. It was soon discovered that Prevost was not a novice in the art of spiriting away cumbersome corpsi s. In ] 876 Adcle Blondin, a woman of Belgian origin, had mysteriously woman, who had been in service 10 years, bad had a little .income of L 6 ) a year left her by her former master. She became the Mistress of Prevost, , but- did not live with him She went to , see Prevost, and never returned ,
, ihe public examina lorn oif lillH \vi ; nf’. i s having been concluded, tb(S I'ubile Froseeutor demanded a sentence. The counsel for the made a warm appeal to the mercy of the * jury, who, jvL'v !e‘'heration of twenty ", nd miles, h-«. tight in an affirm aI ve ve-dicu on eii the po- .l a, without er-oemhng chi-itns a ices, Provost was ' consequently Cundemned to death*
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Temuka Leader, Issue 241, 11 March 1880, Page 2
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612A CAREER OF CRIME. Temuka Leader, Issue 241, 11 March 1880, Page 2
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