Southern shield., 1856-12-20
NUMBER g.

completely paralyzed me, and stood look iug, not able to move hand or foot. lie had nearly reached masters door, when VI. Mou-
 ton came out on the landing. The assassin rushed upon him, and putting . his hand over my masters mouth, prevented |
 him from calling out. 1 noticed only one
 thing. that the murderer had only three tiJl- |
 gers oa his letthdnd. could see no more, |
 but ran up stairs and hurried into the ser
 wants room the child was lying on the bed asleep, but the servant girl was not in the room. took up the child in my arms and
 got out upon the roof. This is all know about the matter"
 The excitement in Dicppe was now raised
 to the highest pitch. No trace of the assaS-
 sin could be discovered. ItWas evident that
 these murders were the work of one man
 and that he must have been concealed in
 the houses before they were closed for the night. Government offered large reward
 for the discovery of tie murderer, and the
 vigilance of the police was thoroughly aroused.
 There lived on the outskirtsSof Dieppe
 widow lady of the name of Beaumaurce:- She had no family, but, with one servant glri,
 lived in a very retired manner. The cottage , in which she resided was situated about hall
 a mile from the city, a little oil from the pup- l lie road. c ' Madame Beaumaurice had been the wife r of an old officer of the Guards. She was
 an extraordinary woman in every particular, Q but especially 50 in respect to certain cool $ ness of character she possessed in the midst t of danger, which, together with large Q amount of moral courage, made her very # notable person. The recent murders haC 1t perhaps made less impression upon her mln( e than upon any one else in Dieppe; althougl r. it was naturally supposed the retired situa F. tionin which she lived would have caused he 1t to be more fearful. o. k Aboutten o'clock, on the night of the 3Ot e. of April, just ten days after the murders | rs the Rue Grennard, Madame Beauman1c
 went up to her bed room. She was suttenn if. from a nervous headache. She felt yer n sleenv. and seated herself in a large arl ed chair previous to undressing herself. In CT lamp was placed on a chest of drawers ol it hind her. Opposite to her was toilet t' on3 bia. with q cloth on it reaching to tf hn floor. She had already commenced takn ,n. off her clothes, when happening to lot .as around her. she saw something that for VI moment chilled her blood. Il was the sha low of mans hand on the floor. The hal lem had only three fingers. lnc\ She divined the truthi IF moment-the no \;n was there, in her house, under the te Ing sasSNole. She made not the least motion ars let taEe tod two or three minutes as the sign, but reiTCtE CUMrsued. 2ng the best course to 6eqericannnd advancing rec She dlylned what to do,. becon, TO- the door, called her servant 1naiaost {
 Oh, Mary! !" exclaimed she, wh7- x led girl entered the room, do you know wh, en- Monsieur Bernard lives? ?" ut Yes, Madame.''
 me :" have to pay 5000 francs away ve nd. early in the morning. The fact slipped I or memory till just now. You will have to r
 to his house and get the money for me-" cad ''Very well, Madame."
 oat ' will write you Q note, which you " m deliver to him, and he will give you ba the bills to the amount'
 me She wrote as follows:
 the "-Ny Dear Monsieur Bernard as- 1.-The assassin of the Rue des Armcs a ble the Rue Grennard is now in my house. -op Come immediately, with some gendarmc n. and take him before he escapes.
 of "HELEN BEAUMAURICE' '' Ing And without entering into any explan .an tion with her servant, she dispatched her Ike the errand. She then quietly re- seated he self and waited.
 my Yes, she sat in the room. with that m my under the table, for a whole hour. She $
 there, calm, cool and collected She ss to the shadow of the hand shift about sever Ic- times; but the murderer did not attempt |, a escape from his place of conceament. the In due time the gendarmeS arrived, Q, vas Jacques Reynauld was arrasted-not, ho' ole ever, without violent struggle. len lnecd scarcely add that the most conyi cing proof as to his guilt was found, and len due time he was guillotincd, as 1 have shoy 'n- the former part of this sketch.
 Baltimore, Nov. 26th, 1856.