New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-18
HORRrBLE CRIME At CMCOPEE.
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Ore Of tie most horrible crimes sver c'uiil''.' -
Massachusetts, was perpe,ra;ed in Ch'r",]r' IA -
County, on Fndsy evening, The J,n i'-'' 'u' 49,:
cane 90 light in all liz euormity on Slpdiy |" .i,,
week. 4. little girl ol eight y-ar-, "is taken iIu
her HON, By man . years o.i 10 the Il'TI .'HA,
urcer the bridge over the Connecticut River ne tlrrs
coreummated hls hellsh work by klitrS her, Hud
throwing the body into the ryer. Ihe ch'h w
missed AZ once and il was supposed he hail i"1ei ~l,h
oth,r parties in kidnapping ber, AII i'r l!,1' ne
put in ail. Bui subsequeIt investigator. ieveof-'
The tine euorudty Of the cn lie thai nal Ovvh c'1'
II n';.d.
The par,ie. 10 the tragedy ore all French. Alex.
Desniastcau q traytlr. yagiOond peiiler i iHe
MURDERER, aud bis victim was Augustine nc - q
eiri OF eight wears Augustine vas D'Tu iu N."-i",H
CIV where her rhren,s French people, still reside
The father and mother separated year and h III
siuce arc il f. 10 the mother u take ti- o1i--' cd
lad of fourteen years. while the i7'her look Ihe
daughter the victim Ia this unhappy trAE. ~. ne
father being pour and having NJ accouin iatbns y
his Child took her to Cbc"pe- and committed her
tue car. Of juice l. reauA. brother fIeuc1min AMI
an old comrade. LereauI kept the cnid uniil Alsi't
last when he hired it, board il the family OF Peter
Dame another Frrrchman. paying tn expenses III Il
.ei although receyife nothing irom VII. Lncas. Au-
eusne was large. healthy girl con.ldera5y 10 dc-
yaLc of her age both in size aud general department
OF Drsnlastran tut little is known. He : rather
eooc-.ockin- young Fr.nchman, lot more than >
wears old n, the most. He to have been trav-
cling peddler hy profession, although he calmel o
poses tie knowledge # - ne n.e'al emp y'nea'.
arte with the Dame family, who n he nf't mt AT
Hartford two or three ye since IL T-tt = Chico
bee n Friday the 9TH inm N'iiHeSqIr. aud sought
enploymeLt buTnisher IN the An's isct''ry where
Dame works. lie al,o calle IN lir ain', te agent
Of tie Dwight mills, aId Mr.. \. says he was in,oA..
ca,cl at tie time, very dirty, AID " booked as If
d" be had had hard tiu.c Of It..
After leaving the Office Of he Dwight Mia Denas-
team went no to the re-idcucr oi Ms Dame, the
mother of Peter Dame, where Mrs. Cltlerne Nicto-
ria Dane, tie vile of Peter, stopped nu her way
home from the factory. Dr,nastean, still unier the
iuluerce oi liqaOr ma H. iamihur advances to
ward Mr. Dame tie younger, and bein- repU.sed
with severity lie got into his buggy into which Ms.
D. had declined ride home drove of T. her resi-
derce on the Patch. Nrs. Peter Dame followed
HIN on foot but Drmasteal had by this time LEFT his
tean aud taken the child whom he tuuoi there alone,
On the pretcnse that he wanted her 20 - down on
Dwight .trtet and see berniUh,r.
Mrs Jacobe BeuIy, an oil French woman occupy
ing pant of the house told the child not To- 20 wh
! that man. but Augustine urged that he was "
+ " good man ard loved little ciilpru. Hs was seen
by several people 10 take the chill of toward the
Cabot Brc e. which il also the direction io she depot
but one, seems, Thought anything strange Of 1t
excerpt Mr.. Peter Dame, who was az once alar med Al
the Oss, but had no ether fear than that the gr nal
been ebductoi for tie benefit If the mother. II is
suppoed that Desmasteau took the child down to the
Iv,r bank where rnder tine ah1tmeut of the ChcOpee
and We, Spring field tollbrlge, lie committed tue
violation Of her person. aud completed the crime by
/ outright murder. The medical examination of the
body. eight days after the crime, and when decompO
sion had in disclosed the fact of personal out
rage that beggurs description II il certain that
if 10 other violence had been used death would have
relieved the little sufferer in few days, at the Last
The throat showed The marks OF sir"nguatlon and
tie skull was broken 10y two heavy blows on the fore
head end left temple After completing his work. De-
mastean either threw the body far out nto the stream
or employed Of the numerous skii that line the
shore in taking the now teess corpse beyond tue I'm
its Of ,haoa water, and if possible, beyond the pos
sibihty Of discovery All this occurre, In the half
I A. a o .I..r. -nfofa
| Demasteau was again at the house of Mrs. Dame the
elder. where he met Mrs. Peter Dame, now IN search
of the child lie declared he knew nothing about tue
matter and exhibited hot the least concern, but pro-
ccedod 20 wash his hands and sit down et the table.
Mrs Dame, however, had sent for officer Capp, AMI
Duasteau Was M once arrested tor Kidnapping, and
OIL Saturday the 6Jb, Judge Whitt4k of the Police
Cont bound him over for trial. At the same tune he
was found to have stolen some silverp from
the Am-s Company, and for this he sentenced to
the IIonse OF Core ction for one year.
/ The tleoIy that tie child had been abducted and
seLt to IL mother in Few-lorl, was strengthened by
the fact that the abduction occurred at the very time
| when the evening train was ab0st to leave for
New-York, via tits city. Mr. Lucas was Mt once in
formed by letter and admonished to look out for his
child, ard not ugt word came back that neither father
or mother knew of the affair did the mystery assume
the form Of Il murder Then search began to be made,
aud on Sunday morning, the lith, while men werc
pI'Par'gto drae the RIVER, Oni Perrin, waking
along tie baik saw the body floating down stream,
distance from shore, and about forty rods below
1 the bridge.
/ Judge Whitaker held inquest Sunday. The
verdict declared that the said Augustine came to her
death by having d" her person violated and receiving
several blows the fore part of the head and on the
/ L" lot temple, and then being thrown into the Con-
/ - necticut River" &C., by Alexander D.smastean
Tie people of Cbicopee manifested the greatest ex
element over the affair both on Sunday aud Monday,
and the police court was crowded almost 10 suo
/ cation during the examination. Desmssteau sat un-
concerr ed throughout the whole but II the inif
ference Of one who regarded himself as au idle spec
tator rather than the still canness OF brute like
/ poor Jones.
1t is said, but on how good authority We cannot tell,
that Desmaseeu fed from Canada to escape the pen
/ acs atto ndii nearly smilnr offense. We should
not omit 10 nrnon tlrt the shirt and pants worn by
Desmasteau al tie tine he committed the olfense, a
fured stIopg proof of the crime. The shirt is stained
! with blood. and marks of blood on the bosom were
discovered by officer Capp when he made tho arrest
Desmasteau trrd every means 10 get nd OF the tell
tale garment. bu aitel search iilor Adams dis
covered rolled up and hid in the straw bed OF the
cell