WILL WE BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MUTILATED CORPSE RECOVERED NEAR MELUN?
Doctor Paul will proceed today
to a counter-autopsy of the funeral remains

Melun, October 17 (from our special correspondent)
As of this morning, according to the orders given by Mr. Demay, investigating judge, we washed the various clothes found on the body of the headless and legless woman recovered from Livry-sur-Seine and including the mud which defiled them did not allow sufficient examination.
Under the action of water, these fabrics regained their original appearance. You can study them at leisure, while they dry in the sun, on the grid which, behind the courthouse, separates the court garden from the gendarmerie. It is first of all a shirt of beautiful new linen, with lingerie neckline and shoulder pads without trimming; only a small branch of a flower is hand embroidered on the chest. A little further on, we notice the initial D, also embroidered by hand. It is then a knitted corset-belt, the shade of which could have been pink, because we notice pink traces having rubbed off on the shirt. But it is also possible that these stains came from a pink seersucker jumpsuit, trimmed with lace, that the victim wore over her corset. We can, in fact, see a few spots of this shade on the fabric that makes up the corset.
The victim also wore a blue cotton petticoat with fairly spaced yellow stripes, a sleeveless bodice, made of brown silk skin, trimmed at the edges and collar with fur similar to skuns, finally a blue apron with small dots. white with half sleeves over it all.
As for the canvas which enveloped the entire funeral package, it measures approximately two meters and has a metal ring at each of its corners which allowed it to be hung.
After having recorded in his report the details of these various parts, Mr. Demay summoned, at two p.m., to his office, an expert mechanic from Melun, Mr. Corvoisier, asking him to examine the metal part which served as ballast to the corpse. The expert immediately recognized a rear wheel hub that had barely been used and probably belonged to an Italian van.
Furthermore, Mr. Demay spoke with Doctor Malvy about the autopsy carried out the day before. The doctor was unable to rely on the examination of the epidermis of the hands to draw any conclusions about the social situation of the victim. As a result of the prolonged stay that the body made in the water, the epidermis had partly disappeared. Long strips of skin adhered to the shirt.
On the other hand, Doctor Malvy informed the investigating judge of an observation which will, at least, allow the research to be restricted: the victim, whose pregnancy he noted, was a mother for the first time.
In agreement with the practitioner, Mr. Demay decided to have a counter-autopsy carried out today, which will be entrusted to Doctor Paul.
During the afternoon, inspectors Belin and Charpentier, from the first mobile brigade, arrived in Melun. Mr. Demay, accompanied by the clerk Bellezy, went with them to the place where a macabre discovery was made. The inspectors also agreed with the theory that the body could not have been thrown from the top of the Chartrettes bridge or from the left bank, the only one easily accessible. They therefore consider, as the only likely possibility, the delivery of the corpse by means of a boat.
We report a disappearance to the courts! During the day yesterday, Mr. Demay received a visit from a person who, for the moment, wishes to remain anonymous. The visitor, dressed very correctly, was accompanied by one of his relatives, who had read the details of the affair in the morning newspapers. Both came to ask the judge for authorization to be placed in the presence of the corpse, the first thinking of finding in the deceased his wife who had been missing for five months.
The visitor, Mr. D. V..., pointed out the particularity that his wife was pregnant at the time of his disappearance.
Mr. Demay hastened to comply with the request made to him, but Mr. V.... was unable to comment, the corpse being in a fairly advanced state of decomposition. However, he plans to bring his mother, who used to take care of the missing woman's laundry, to examine the clothes found on the dead woman. These clothes, by a truly singular coincidence, bore the initial D, and it is noted that the missing woman's linen was marked with a D. There is, however, reason to welcome this combination of initials with caution. if we note that the person whose disappearance is reported was four months pregnant when she left the marital home five months ago. However, the woman recovered was only five months pregnant when, approximately four weeks ago, she was murdered,
The investigation is actively continuing and it is hoped that it will be concluded soon. We will probably direct the search towards the numerous canoes which are moored on the left bank of the Seine and one of which could have been used to transport the funeral parcel,