Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-03-28

fear began to decrease, when they were
again awakened in ten-fold manner
by another shocking murder.
About ten days after the catastro-
phe IN the Rue des Armes, some belat.
ed pedestrians were making the BEST of
their way home about two O'Clock in
the morning. They were walking very
rapidly down the Rue Grenard, when
they were astoundcd by seeing man
on the roof of house, with nothing
but his shirt, crying out with all his
strength murder murder = He held
a young child in his arms.
They Immediately called to him but
all they could gather from him was
that murder was being committed in
the house. They directly made for
the door and found it fastend on the
inside. They burst the door open with
a few vigorous kicks and penetrated
into the house They rushed up stairs
and on the first landing they found the
body of IL man with his throat cut. He
was dead. They entered bed room
hanging half out Of the bed was the bo-
dy of a woman, mutilated in the same
horrible MANNER, and stone dead.
But they had not yet discovered all the
horrors in that house of blood. In the
kitchen was discovered the inanimate
corpse of the servant girl who had been
killed by the same means. The assas-
sin was evidently the same that had
committed the murder in the Rue des
Armes. The wounds inflicted were ex-
actly of the same character, and it was
evident the same instrument had been
used.
The young man we saw on the roof
OF the house was called Pierre Dulon :;
he peposed before the Procurer du Roi
the next morning, as follows:
My name is Pierre Dulon, l am
twenty years of age, and match-mak-
er by trade. For the last two years l
have been living as assistant with the
late Monsieur Mouton. He resided in
Rue Grenard. His family consisted eff
himself, wife, child, and servant girl
On tie night of the 2lst of Adril 1916,
we all of us retired TO bed early. |
was accustomed to sleep in one of the
attics. In the room next to mine the
servant girl and child slept About
half past one o'clock in the morning |
awoke. l felt very thirsty, and rose
to get some water, my pitcher was
empty. | went down stairs to fill it.
[ had nearly reached the first landing,
when [ saw a man stealthily ascending
the stairs. [ am very nervous man,
and the recent murder had preyed very
much on my mind, and had been liv-
ing in continual dread ever since. The
sight Of this man completely paralyzed
me, and l stood looking, not able to
move hand or foot. lie had nearly
reached masters door, when NJ. Mou-
ton opened the door and came out on
the landing. The assassin Immediate
ly rushed upon him, and putting his
hand over my masters mouth, prevent
ed him from calling out. | noticed
ouly one thing, that the murderer had
only three fingers on his left hand. l
could see no more, but ran up stairs
again, and hurried into the servants
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 on the roof. This is
all | know about the NATTER
The excitement in Dieppe was now
raised to the highest pitch. No trace
of the assassin could be discovered 1t
was evident that these murders were
the work of one man, and that he must
have been concealed in the house be-
fore they were closed for the night
Government offered large reward for
the discovery of the murderer, aud the
vigilance of the police was thoroughly
aroused.
There lived on the outskirts of Di-
eppe widow lady by the name of
Beaumaurice. She had no family, but
with one servant girl lived in very
retired manner. The cottage in which
she resided was situated about half
mile from the city, little off from the
public road.
| Madame Beaumaurice had been the
wife of an old officer of the Guards.
She was an extraordinary woman in
every particular, but especially so in
respect to a certain GOODNESS of charac-
ter she possessed, in the midst of dan
ger, which, together with large
amount of moral courage, made her "a
very notable person. The recent mur
ders had perhaps less impression OH
her mind than upon any one else in Dl-
eppe, although 1t was naturally sup
posed the retired situation IN which
She lived would have caused her to be
, more fearful.
About ten o'clock on the night of the
3Oth of April, Just ten days after the
murders in the Rue Grenard, Madam
} Beaumaurice went up to her bedroom.
She was suffering from nervous head
ache. She felt very sleepy, and seat
ed herself in large arm chair prevI-
. Gus TO undressing herself. The lamp
: was placed on a chest of drawers be-
hind her. Opposite to her was toi-
let table, with cloth on it reaching tc
the floor She had already commenc-
ed taking Of her clothes, when happen
: ing to look around her, she saw some
e thing that for a moment chilled hel