The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-02-21

n French Murdsr TfiaI-Ct besrd Of Criaos
a trial has recently TAKEN placy a. Bourg, in
che Department d st. Ain, FiAnce, which for
horror Is unparalleled in tho ancsli o. crirn..
The male pfs,nar Is named Martin Dumol-
lard, aged 81, and tas female ie his v e., Mari
anne MHtLet aged IL. lt appysr,d from the
evidenca, End irdeed from the confseiI m Of
Dumollard himt'lG sni Of his wife, that
,or many years b.ck the man had bec N the
habit OF acc citing young females WHO l,ok'd
like domestic servants, rpressriing hinselt AS
mans ccuntty house, inducing them to
accompany bim come distance until thay
reached a reigtborieg WOOD aud there
throwing n c"fd ar und their ncckl at
tempting to outrage and murder them.
In one very recent insta-ce girl es.
capped from lis hands, and, seeing tn, lights of
q railway line al distance, ran ia that direc-
tion and obtained a refuge. Her description of
her assailant, comb ned with the fact that simi.
lar statements bad been made at distant inter-
walls by otttr giilS, caused an inquiry 20 be
vigorously sci on foot, and Dumollard, who lp-
peAred 10 have no regular mode Of livelihood,
was suspoct,d. A search was made in his touse,
and an immen quantity Ot female garments
was found the'e,-such a. forty Bonneis, tifty-
seven pair OF sU.kinRs, fourteen dresses and
q heap Of cor eta, psttico.ts, chemses &,-
DumollSrd, being arrested and idet ticd
that ho hsi been for years in the habit Of
decoying gifls into the forest, but stated that
he WAS only the agent of gang who employed
him for the purpose, and who gave him the
clothes for his icwa d. IL, denied that he had
hhnself committed any OF the outiagcs or muir
ders. The woman who lately escaped and sev-
eral others, who Likewise Identified DumollArd,
ltlted, however, that there was no one with
him or near him VIXEN he attempted tho crimes.
n search in the forest discovered the dead boly
ota young woman, very recently buried, The
body was quite naked, and what was peculiarly
horTifying was that The haLds were found clasp
cd, f-ll Of the fresh earth heaped above, and
the legs drawn up, thus giving riso to more than
Suspicion that the unfortunate girl had boen buri
cd b fore life had wholly departed. The skull was
marked with two terrible wounds. In ano her
part Of the forest another body was found in
dCcayed eonditicn-ikewise that Of young
woman and stripped OF ell clothing. Subse-
quent researches, directed, indeed, partly by
Dumollard bins, II, discovered two female skel
etona. IL "a asccrtainsd that within some years
many o'her girls have disappeared from tho
neig orhcod, come Of whom had left their
homes with the intention OF seeking employ
mont in Lyons or Paris. The bodies VIII oh are
capable Of Identification have been fully idenu.
fed. Among the clothing found in Dumollard's
house are eral articles bearing the initials OF
gi'ls Who, o fate Ia yet undiscovered and in
come inrtauces there are the inner garments
which could not nave Oeen oOthned without
violence.
An innumerGble quantity OF clothes, oil and
new, was aro found; calico, made up aai un-
made; boxtH, bits of lace, muslin, IibOors and
many other articles OF like nature, the use Of
which Is entirely mot upllisod in the south Of
France by young girls. Amongst the spoilJ
were garner Is that bore the traces Of blood
and hat diuls of long hair, brown, fair aud
tAack, IA IL torn in a struggle from the heads Of
the different victims. There were divers col
oiod gatteis, taken IRON tho legs Of tho mur-
dered girlf, who NUT have been more numer-
ous than Dumcllard confessed. Thirty pairs OF
u loft were al.O found, not only the pieces of
atuff AMI clothes TAX. n from the box Of Marie
Pichon one who fortunately escaped but Sc.
venteen stays, caps, pocket handkerchief, and
aprons, and the bones of n little finger supposed
10 have been cut OF because VI q ring that tit
cod on 1t very tightly.
A Paris correspondent says;
A few weeks ago the unparalleled spectacle
was seen in tho neighborhood Of Lyons, Of q
Judge Of Instruction, and other law officers,
perambplating the woods with an imms
crowd Of spectators at their heels, TO dig up the
dead booies tf murdered girls. As many as
fifteen cases Of murder, or attempted murder,
have been brodgls home 10 the prisoner and IL
Is sppposed that many more must be undiscov-
cred. The country people speak Of him as the
mar. who has - cemetery al to himself In
his house were found no less than 40 hundred
and Il irty articles OF female apparel, besides
watches and tribketf-pzrt Of the procoeda Of
the robboiies which always accompanied his
murders.
DumolA vas condemned to death, and his
wife To twsrty years Imprisonment with hard
labor.