New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-21
a norrla Charter Of orime.
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man IN The employment OF frame maker WR9m
one rafr,nfgeS was the intended murderer, and he
Sa5 iSaabfiess been tempted to do the deed in
nso y, rob iis victim of some small but valuable
,,afntinys which had been entrustedasto her by
md for q tool which he had accidentally left be-
Not finding it, be drew from his pocket bolster
cover asking the lady if ii did not belong to her;
and, as she turned away, annoyed by his CUES
lions he took the opportunity to throw the cloth
over her head so as to cover it, at the same time
placing one hand on her neck and the other on her
mouth, stufhng the linen down her throat so as TO
shle her cries. She had been able to scream
little, however, and her screams the noise OF the
scuffie and the sound OF her tall on the moor,
brought brother painter-the Senr Vauchelet-
| who was in adjoining apartment, TO her assist
ance The prisoner, thus interrupted eoolly
walked away, merely saying that the lady was i'll
| but he was followed and arrested
/ The police soon identified him man who
was !. wanted y for a horrid murder committed
few days before, and little more Investigation
proved their prisoner, Joseph Philippe by name,
to be one of those great criminals OF the Dumol-
lard type who commit murder by wholesale, part
ly from pure blood thirstiness of nature and partly
for the plumber and outrage of their victims His
trial has just taken place under one OF the most
formidable dotes d'dccusdtion which the ingenuity
of French lawyers has constructed. The prison
er's appearance and anteeedents quite correspond
j. with the last epoch Of his history He is a short
thicksset man. with black hair, closely cut beard
and mustaohe, low forehead, deepset eyes, thick
lips, and generally q terocious look, although
dressed in the garb Of a well-to.do workman.
Born in 1881 that he is 35 years of age, he was
taken for the military service in 1852, condemned
in 1856 to years imprisonment for misconduct
and. enrolled soon after id one of those terrible
battalons d Antique into which the scoundrels Of
the French army are drafted.
II He returned to Paris in 1861, and has since been
in numerous situations as cook, groom, general
servant and warehouse messenger, but staying
long in none on account OF his drunken HABITS
= The idea of living by murder and robbery appears
to have originated in the necessities of his poverty
when out Of employment; and his system is novel,
as the first attempt to take advantage of certain
feature in our social lfe The murderer two years
Z ago. at Florence, yictimized lodgng-hou keep
= ers whom he found out as TdtaedHt lodger and
whom he was enabled to murder on account of
their lonely position. Joseph Philippe selected
for his operations the class of unfortunates whose
degradation and ISOLATION and the peouiarites Of
their miserable trade, expose them in high de-
: gree to the danger Of assassination:
!, The WaterlOo.r0ad murder, and the more reeen
murder of Emma jackson, eSemplify among our
selves what these dangers amount to. But thu
prisoner is the first to have seen in the facts thu
chance Of living. From the evidence now OBJ
tanned, 1t is certain that ne did act on system
More than two years ago he revealed bissecretto ON
of these females in the weakness Of intoxication
Z" | love women well, be said " and do for then
= well. stuff their mouths and cut their threats
40 Wait Bit and you will hear me talked about.
v. What PASSED for grim jest has become too hOr
"a rid reality. Several untorunates had persisted il
: Paris since 1861, strangledi or with Threats cut
but it is only within the last two years that cases
I. have been found in which there is proof agains
in the prisoner. There three distinct cases. one
10 of them double murder in which the infant OIL
I one Of his victims was also killed, and the circnm
n stances are much alike ALL
a. Three days before his apprehension he aeeosted
b At II O'clock in the evening in the rue de la Vile
Il l'Eyeque, girl named Marie Yictoire Bodeux
soon afterwards he was seen entering the building
Y ON that street in which were her apartments ana
& a quarter of an. hour later he was observed tt
g. leave by an old man who lived in the house ant
" who wanted to see the girl. This man, entering
& her apartment, discovered her on the floor, witt
= her throat frightfully gashed and the marks Of
:, blood-stainea fingers on the drawers and thei
Is contents, which. as well as the mattress on the
Il bed had been rummaged for valuabies. 1t was
found that the murdered wonan's purse, contain
ing f3 andseveral articles of jewelry, had been
stolen; and, luckily, there were found in the pri
soner's possession sufficient articles to identify
him. Before leaving he had had time to wast
his hands in basin which stood upon the dressing
II table in the apartment. The two other murders
{ with which he is connected were committed in the
q spring of 1864.
If One morning in April that year an unfortunate
h named Julie Roberts, not having appeared since
ia the evening of the day before, was found in her
: apartment in the Rue ST. Joseph, with her throat
cutin similar fashion to that of the girl of Bor-
Of deaux-her pockets and the whole apartment also
e bearing marks of hasty rifing and hand basin
ID in like manner marked with blood stains The
3 prisoner is said to have taken with him handker.
chief, which has been identified as the deceased's
property, and he is proved to have been spending
Z newly entered on any employment after term of
a idleness, and had yet received no wages. His
Z strange demeanor and agitation at the time have
It also been remembered against him. The most
horrible affair OF all was the murder in November
following in the Rue ST. Marguerite, of a woman
3 named Mage and her two-yeaFs,old.
On Sunday morning in that month, workrnen
4 passing to their work observed for a moment a
woman in her chemise at a window hoarsely cry
ing out and gesticulatng strangely, but, thinking
she was drank or mad, they. passed on She was
neither drunk nor mad but in the fatal grasp of q
2 murderer. Nor did her cries bring the assistance
!. Of neighbors. Half an hour afterwards man re-
J sembling the prisoner was seen to descend the
house and depart, leaving the key Of the apart
1. ment on the landing. There was some suspicion
and on entrance being made the two bodies were
I found horribly mutilated and brused--the woman
having plainly gone through a tremendous strug-
o gle before her antagonist succeeded. There were
the same marks Of riding left as in the other cases
d showing the same author.
Y The prisoner not only identified by those
s who saw him leaving, but another unfortunate
+ whom he had addressed the same evening, haC
been so frightened at his looks that she would mo-
t take him home. and had seen him afterward going
0 home with the deceased. She was not the onlJ
9 woman other class who testifies to having been
: saved from probable murder by a similar fear
The stTangest fact Of all remains and that is thu
O horror OF the prisoner at his own crimes. Hi
sleep was disturbed by frightful dreams. After
the last mentiQned murder, those in the houst
where he had lodged heard him raising frightfu
cries, as if some bloody apparition had appeared
before him. he plunged into deeper debauehe
7, to drown the terrors of his conscience. 0nt
/ would almost have expected that so wholesale
criminal would have been more hardened.
d Such is one of the most frightful chapters o
4 crime that have lately been recorded. The pri
n soner we learn is not to escape the last penalty
Il Of the law although it is considered that the 1861
III cases are not quite established against him. Ever
re French jury mas found it impossible to give hin
the benefit Of extenuadng circumstances.
ne VS. must also remark that the affair is by nc
a means eredtable to the French police. There are
81 said to have been twentythree cases since 1861
N but they all failed to find ont the murderers Oh
NJ rather murderer, since the records oil showed
NJ striking similarity Of method
Mr.. Louis shafer, of Canton, Ohio, lately sen
K. ex Gov. Wise, of Virginia sloo for the Orphan
70 Asylum at Richmond. The radicals Of that tow
u heard Of il and raised hue and cry about Con
4 perheadsn sending money to rebels, whereup6i
If Mr.. Shafer came out and acknowledged that h
81 was the guilty party, in published card, in whic
NJ he states.
~ The only regret / have in the matter Ia tba