DREADFUL MURDER AT BOR DEAUX.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2605, 23 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

DREADFUL MURDER AT BOR DEAUX.

A terrible discovery has been made close to Bordeaux. On Monday morning a rural postman was going his round, when he was horrified at the sight of the legs and lower half of the body of a woman emerging out of the water of a ditch. The head and bust were sticking in the mud at the bottom. The Police Commissary was immediately summoned, and It was soon found that the innrdered person was a woman of about 25 years of age. The clothes of tho unfortunate creature were elegant and almost new, and the hands were still wearing a pair of fine black gloves. Clenched in the fingers of the right hand was a quantity of human hair, almost certainly that of the murderer. The head was pierced by two bullets just above the right ear. A pool of blood was discovered not far from the ditch into whioh the body of the murdered woman had been thrown head foremost. A half-burnt silk handkerchief and a small woollen shawl, saturated with blood, were also picked up close by. The victim's body also bore evidence of an attempt having been made to burn it, at least partially, with the probable object of making in unrecognisable. No clue has yet been found either to the murderer or to the identity of the victim.