THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 -
REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS
BLOOMSBURY TORSO CRIME
Horribly gruesome was the crime An examination of Volson's home dis- that came to light with the discovery | closed a bloodstained kitchen. of a woman's torso in a gunny sack
He denied committing the murder
behind the railings of Regent Square | but said that he had found the wo- in Bloomsbury, on the morning of man dead and covered with blood Nov. 7, 1917.
when he came home one night. He The ghastly thing was enveloped in admitted having dismembered the then cut up the body and scattered A white sheet, and on a torn bit of body through fear. London was all the remains. heavy wrapping paper was crudely ed with stories of war atrocities at that He was promptly convicted and later written the words: "Blodie Belgium." [ time, and the writing of "Blodle Bel-executed for the crime. Mme. Roche That was all. Identification was out of the question. with this headless fragment of a human being. Yet there was one tiny clue. In the corner of the white sheet was a laundry mark, "11-H," done in red cotton.
gium" on the paper was evidently for the purpose of throwing the police on
a false scent.
THE TRIANGLE
The theory at the trial was that Volson had been keeping the two
was discharged on the murder charge, but a fresh indictment accused her of being an "accessary after the fact." Convicted of this, she was sentenced Be- to seven years' penal servitude. fore the end of the first year the
Shortly after the original discovery women. On the night of the tragedy horror of the business caused her to the legs were found in a bag at the there was an air raid in London and der of her life was spent in an insti- go hopelessly insane and the remain- other end of the square. Ten minutes Mme. Gerard sought Voison's cellar
Ashely, a after the discovery John
tution for the mentally affected. for safety, She found Mme. Roche keen-witted Scotland Yard man, was already there. The further theory was
Detectives Ashley and Wensley were on the case. Later he was to be join-that they had quarreled, and this was highly commended by their superiors ed by Frederick Porter Wensley, an-
borne out by scratches and signs of for having solved a murder with only other shining star of the Yard. Be-
slight blows on the remains. But in a slight clue and without having even tween them they destined to solve a
the end Voison had killed Mme. Ger-known the identity of the victim hideous crime.
ard with some blunt instrument and when they started.
EVERY LAUNDRY CONTACTED Every laundry in that part of Lon- don was visited and finally the one in which that white sheet had been washed and ironed was located. It had been sent there by a Mme.
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Emilenne Gerard, a French woman who had lodgings in Munster Square: Regent Park. The landlady said that Madame Gerard had been gone since Oct. 31. It was ascertained, however, that she had acted as housekeeper, at intervals, for Louis Voison, a butcher,
Voison said that Mme. Gerard had left on the date already mentioned in company with a French girl called "Marguerite," with the statement that she was going on a visit to France. He said he could give no further in- formation, but he and a friend, Mme. Bertha Roche, were invited to head- quarters for the purpose of 'helping the police."
While there Voison was invited to write "Bloody Belgium" on a sheet of paper. By request he wrote it many times, but on each occasion he spelled it "Blodie Belgium." Also the hand- writing, while smaller, was somewhat similar to the original that was found on the paper when the torso was dis- covered. Mr. Volson and his lady friend were politely "detained" while the two detectives pushed their in- quiries further.
In searching him they found a key which opened the cellar of 101 Char- lottee St. Poking about there in the midst of trash and rubbish they came across а cask filled with sawdust. And the sawdust covered the head and of the murdered woman. the arms
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