Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-11

suffered.
The men stared at me with establishment
saying!
"Wny. it's Jaques Reynauld."
The name struck me as being somewha
familiar, and endeavoTed to remember wher'
had heard il before. l suddenly recolleolet
she Paris newspapers some months had beer
filed with the history Of several awful murders
committed In Dieppe, and this mans nam'
was in some way connected with them, but IL
: what manner could not learn But my curl
osity was now thoroughly excited, and imme
diately made the most minute inquiries into
tho matter, and before left Dleppe had learned
the following particulars;
In the Rue dec Armes, about four months
previous to the time write, lived q worthy
haberdasher of the nsme of Maurice. His
lamily consisted of himself, hs wife, one child
and servant girl. They wero quiet, Fespecta.
jole people, and very much respected by all thell
neighbors.
NJ Maurice jid a good business and frequent
iy had considerable sum of money ia his
house. He had sn extraordinary run Of custom
on Saturday, and when the labors of the day
we're over he feltvery much fsigued. He shut
up his shop and proceeded to small room where
his vile ard servant were laying tho cloth for
supper.
"My dear" ssid his wife, sa so0n as be en-.
tered the room, ~ should very much like some
oysters for supper Tonight"
| ~ ON afraid i. is too late" replied the hus.
band, looking at bis watch "It'a a quarter
past eleVen."
"Oh no, Justine sayd these ia shop ooen
ABOUND the corner"
at that bO the CAGE let Justine ge: s1mo at
once, am as hungry as q hunter"
I I'M bnn . 4
shawl and went .for the oysters, leaving the
door siar, that she mighs not disturb her mas
ter or mi tress wnen che returned.
| Now it 80 happened that the place where ahe
expected to be able to obtain the oysters was
closed; but not Wishing to disappOint her EN-.
pioyeTs, she determined she .Oud 90 and seek
| them elsewhere. In pursuance Of khie object,
she entered Grand Rue, but had to walk a con.
siderSblo distance before she could obtain VII at
she Eought. She hurried home again, and
noticed that when she arrived at the door of her
masters houaes the chimes Of neighbor-
| ing church struck quarter TO twelve. She
had. therefore, been abeebt Just half on hour.
She was surprised to find the door Shut, but
supposng the. the wind had blown it too, she
raised the latch. The door was fastened on the
inside. She thought his rather strange, but then
again reflected that it was doubtless only nec-
essary precaution on the part of her master
She rupg the bell, and vas very much concern.
ed when, after waiting few minutes, no reply
was made.
"They have gone to bed" che said to her.
self, and felt rather angry with them for hav-
ing locked her cut. She again rang the bell
much more violently than before--still no an
sHer She now became alarmed, and rang lsng
and vlolenty-no answer! Her fears were
thoroughly aroused, and she related the circum-
stance to some persons passing along the street.
The presence Of tWo or three gendarmes was
soon procured, and they proceeded to break in
the door.
The passage into which the door opened was
perfectly dark; bu. one OF the gendarmes stun.
oled over something, and putting out bis hand
20 save himself, it came in contact with some.
thing wet on the ground. A light was imme.
distely obtained, and horrible sight presented
itself
Lying across the passage was the dead body
of Monsieur Maurice, with his throat cut from
ear to ear, The floor was swimming with his
blood. In the little room wGs the dead body Of
bis wife, presenting the same ghastly wound,
Even the little child in the cradle had not es
caped for the meroless assassin had taken its
life by the same horrible means. The house
was ransscked from top to bottom, and every
thing Of value stolen.
shall not attempt to depict the horror of the
persons who witnessed this shocking sight, 1t
oan be more eseily imagined than described, and
TO tell the truth, done like dealing in the
horrible; IL is pandering to morbid taste, ard
If have transeressed my usual mode of nsrra-
tion in this sketch my only excuse is-it 10 true.
The most Strenuous efforts we're made 20 de-
tect the murderer, but without sDy success. All
that could be learned was that man had been
seen to look intently in the chow windows about
the time M. Maurics was counting out his day 3
receipts The whole town Of Dieppe was hor
rified, and when night came many o heart
lrembIed. After few days the feeling of fear
began to decrease, when they were again awak.
oned in ten-fold manner by another shocking
murder.
About ten dsya o. ter the catastrophe In the
Rue des Armes, come belated pedestrians we're
making the best Of their way home about two
o'clock In the morning. They were walking
very rapidly down the Rue Grensrd, when they
we're asLonished by seeing man on the roof Of
house, with nothing en- but his shirt, crying
out with ell his strength, "murder !" onurierp r.
"murderp He held young child In hia arms.
They Immediately called 10 him, but all they
could gather from him was that murder was
being committed in tho house. They directly
made for the door and found IL fastened 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 man with his throat
cut He was dead. They entered G bedroom
--hapaipR half ous of bod was the body of q
woman, musilated in the came horrible manner,
and stone dead. But they had not yet discov-
cred all the horrors in that house of blood. In
| the kitchen was discovered the inanimate corpge
of the servant girl, who had been killed by the
| same means. The assassin was evidently the
1 same that had committed the murder In the Rue
des Armes. The wounds inflicted were exactly
of the same character, and IL was evident the
aano instrument had been used.
. The young man We saw on the roof of the
house was called Pierre Dulon; be deposed up
on the proourer du Roi the next morning as fol
lows'
"My name is Pierre Dulon; am twenty
wears OF age, and q matchmaker by trade
| For the last two years l have been living sI
assistant with the late Monsieur Mouton. HI
resided in Rue Grenard. His family consisted
Of himself, wife, child, and q servant girl. Or
the night Of the 2lst of April, 1886, we all o
us retired to bed early. l was accustomed Il
eleep In one Of the st!ios. 10 the room next I,
mine the servant girl and child slept. Abou
, half past one o'clock In the morning aWoke
felt very thirsty and rose TO get some water
, nv pitcher was empty. went down stairs 4
i fllit. had nearly reached the arst landing
when | saw man stealthily ascending th
/ stairs. am very nervous man, and the re
> cent murder had preyed very much on my mind
: and had been living In continued dread eve