Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-07-02
REMARKABLE TALE OF MURDERS.

REMARKABLE TALE OF MURDERS.
here lived IN Lyons, IN respectable station
Of life, man named Peter Claudius Chevaiirr,
whose amiaole qualities and gen'emanly ap
pearsnce mad obtained for him :he es Gem OF
The ciizens !, was his native place, although
he had been loug absent; AID he wa ma'r'ed 10
the las of four wives, whom hr had ohos' n from
among the inhabitants, and with whom lie haC
uriformly lived In conren'ment aud peace
One day child was Stolen in the neighbourlng
village by a grntselly dressed man. who had
en,icrd The lit le VIC tim with 6On-boas and Cares
s., s. I'LL he oought HIM up IN his arms, aud He'd
with the pr,ze A no: pursuit Immediately
commenced, aud after g'eat ific ul y, the GRIM
iual was oppr htnded; when O he asionian
ment of all Lyons, HI was discovered 10 be Pc
ter C,audius Chevallier, "sous-t hrf' In The "Ou-
r au DIES finances" Of ihr prefecture of the
one. The sensation wh,Ch IL oii ume ance
ex tied was frs: hat of simple su' prise; but
the explanation ne gave Of his ninlyes for the
crime Caused III inhapi,anis of. Lyons 10 urn
their ey~s al le s, Ia nosht upon tie prisoner.
n i"rrsird Ious"ir Nuns u Tor
The loss # chi If lis own, oy adopting The
on. he had stoien lall his moment neither
his wifi nor the pubcS had ever heard of the
loss Of his child, which they suppos'd To be
living il health with is nurse 4 Nillru bans
mes How did mis- bereavement happen. and
why was i conce led? II SAID he had be, TO
Vitleurb mn. 20 b i"g i home, but fhigued
I'M oxicated u a Guaioted with the c"unrs, and
o,rrtakcn by m. "'gat, nc had wandered out
Of his way among thi kr,s and precipi' es, and
lost the child, W um ne WAS afrad 10 look for
in the dark. These crcumNl anCes nf his Jour
ney were physical impo,>ibihntS lie could
MOI have b. en- fatigued b, so ordinary a walk
nor ;n'oxicate alter spending only twelve sous
in eff Shments, nor overtaken by tn" night in
so sort tune, nor led gu, Of a s,rdigh, road
bu dcrrd By thick hedges, nor lost am 'ng thick,
cts md pIeci Ji,es IN level country, where
there was no, 'hitket nor 2rccipice TO he seen.
There SIZE ned 10 br somcthin e so ex aordina
~ and mysterious in this aff,ir. thai II LAST
people naturally turned ALI inquiring and suspi-
clos look II the whole conduC, OF the prison.
err Surmi es even began TO get aoa that he
mad no right 10 the name by witch he was
k wn a, Lyons. ilw some we'll known in the
CITY: nd even if its possessor had been absent
{ ON 'yhoud, there surely might have been
some ~, son 10 recognise and welc ONE the wan
DIR .ng Ishmsel at his return. l"qoirirs pro-
t,uced discoveries, and il was sonn kn"wn that
the nam, was in reality an assumed one; and the
rue Chey allirr, an "ffiCtr in he army, con-
fronted the &C, used in person. The later had
faIen in - Flushing wish The papers of ,hr o.
IN, r, an off er in ,ne same b, talon If regi
m nt,o which he himself briea.;ed. fhc I'M
Dos e s nam, was lie itv,e; h bad fahricl ed
a false leave OF ap>ence aud d. serted. Tracing
hi, history has XIV ri, step by step, /, was in
OUR d undyr wha circumstances he had enter
ed ne service II, had detraud,d the bank If
France E 60 900 fran s. and through he inter
Is, Of his fam y, viii was respectable, his
punishmrn, mad b en- cummutcd 10 he species
of h"nora.le transportation implied by en'eri K
q colonial regiment. So far all was sati,factory:
but n. rc was stili hia,us lett IN the history.
Some Y ,rs had been ieaU' over in the ia,esti
ga ion few hui impor' ant, crowded with events,
p.esnan' with suspicion. THIS Was the era in
which his home had been cnDset rated w the
presence Of tnfse wives SUI C, ssi,ely, and light
ed up by the smiles # young and beautiful
mistress. |, was to this perlud that the atlen-
ton Of the inQuirers was low directed. These
ladies had all died the same disc ;nfiam-
ma,I.n in the a5dome,; and the ajo'i'y lha,
cri' zeal period in he life Of female, when IA
ture p, oiongs the du asion of the human race
by the performance Of miracle in the human
economy. The symptoms and circun,s ,ances
# The disc a>e had been The .me ia all, and tn.
aft ctionate a"enunns OF the husband>|ovrr e.
qualiy rema, kabie la each Of The Cases. At the
6rs' appearance of approaching illness he took
the brlo.ed sufferer under his own care; one
was 10 sit up with h. r but him; on WIS ev-
en- to be pres mt during he nigh " wotc es Of
his love his d. p ir Waeu the msmeut
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