Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-07-02
Freaks of Ma dA1e.s


Freaks of atness
We condense from the Detroi; Free Press
one of the most remarkable instances of real
or telgned nsa dress, which we ever read Of
Two untsarrie6 brothers, Frenchtrer, FRITZ
ed Doyon. lived with an unmarried sister
about IL miles from Detroit. These men
were eece HeFec, end associated little with
their neighbors. they originally were no
HanIsts, and were very superstitious, and
dhi foolish things, such as cut off the tails of
the ca1te ~ let ouI bad spirits. LfIteIy they
have rather renuuuced their religion ent
iftre bad no particular religious creed, only
| eiF-brfeHfss the idea that good OF bad spirit
els"elt ZIP every human Or brute. For a few
days previous To the scene related below
the aGighborS leaG noticei the conduct OF the
Doyois to ee sseuTe thar rs%aliy siEausrs -
e(n Tue5cay morning, the 3 a Mrs. Wander
bush, living opposite these Frenchmcn, heard
the report OF gun in their house aud the
surear@ OF frlaale. Sac ran 10 a neigh
hor's and while going heard two rHorc shots
ahd locking towards the kOgse she saw the
goyor brothers breahirsy the do,rs atpI " itf
dows. The whole neish shbort0u1F was alartrI-
ed, but no one dared go near the house
Finally Mr. G,4Ebas h@s4 lee courage To
go near and call to the H,yoEf5. q. co1tc out .
Augu5te eaGise to the door with n4,lhi4i!r e1s
save pair OF pants, and having iIs leg hard
club, aIst c1r Cdrba5 approaching struck
h4m, knocking him down, but CarbJs Isan-
aged to- escape. A corfs,sitaeiNt4 was had.
and i'll the afternoon the me-, fiogks ralti%.d
and attempted 10 force the lhouse. 'Eire two
fssad nscn ufet the party aIsd fetlc4 Tire first
olFc, Mr. kaufman, TO the grouul, breaking
his skull. Tire second man m5t his fate,
ard the party rctreated, carrying off the
two wounded men.
The Doyons left slo1ge,- e04nrnetced a
demolition of the furniture, the ceiling, and
Partitions, and to empty the h)pse OF its
contents, and were thus occupied until he
next day, SO that nothing was lett save the
bare log walls, everything movable being
thrown into the yard and the water near by.
The neighbor5, who must be very ignorant,
are so superstitious that they will not touch
these articles. On w cdnesday afternoon
the brothers were seen to bring out the ma
kcd dead body of their sister, they too bein 9
entirely nude. They covered her body with
box aud endeavorec TO sink it, hut failing
Ill that. carried it back to the house Twicc
they brought out tin; Oily, one haying hold
ot the he@d, the other the feet, dud. duslling it
luto The water aud washing it, returned to the
house. In their after account Of their do
it4gss, they suil had thn bl3tt2el their
sister in order To make Protestant of he
that they were commanded by the Almig ghty
10 do SO, but at the list tinIRtrsion she was 81
Eoo9 under Writer to- be dFoAx xHed. After
tlFese washings. they tnFew tire body out OF
the back door OF the house. About fouE
O'Clock Wednesday they bore the body o4
their sister on their shoulders to the barn
which is across the road. All these thin o.
were doae when the men were in q rede
state.. sisd in full view OF all the Reiahbors.
At the barn they laid the body on the floor
and began to empty the bsi ldiDg Of its Con-
tents, which done, they took heavy whip
known as the "black snake" whip, and COM
menced whipping the corpse, calling upon it
in French to ''get up. Fney then closed
| the scene by fight between themselves
How long they fought is not known, but the
marks OH their bodies siiow how desperate il
was. Fhey afterwards took the body OF
their sister and placing it in wagon cover
ed it with straw and left it, Arming tn EN-
selves with pitchforks they started though the
| woods toward Gratiot. Through the rain
and the darkness, stark naked, they made
their way, and at midnight arrived bleedin4z
| cold and exhausted, at Mr. PulUhef's, re-
| porting there that they were pursued by
their neighbors, who sought to kill them, and
that the Lord had instructed them to flee
Tor succor. Pulcher took them in, put the Fz
to bed, where they fell asleep, and then sunR-
moned the Neighbours to his assistance. -
/ They slept until morning, aud IN the uSorp-
ing were pursuaded to dress, and then rels-
ted their story, the brother Augus.e doing
the most of the talking. The brothers were
taken in irons to Mt. Clemens Jail. The
elder brother refused food, and they had a.
gain stripped themselves.
OF course the supposition is the men
were insane. Yet the Free Press most per.
tinently says that it seems strange two per
! sons should suddenly, at the time, be
come deranged, and that too on the same
subject and in precisely the same manner
and unite to carry out their insane rawlings
in harmony.
We notice by the Detroit Adv ertisef tha
the Coroner's Jury have found that the broth
ers are insane. i Cleveland Hetald.