The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-06-06

of the blood, but he only clapped his
hands as before, muttering about
piggy" and said "Come and see."
My first thought was that the child
had been playing with the carcasses
of the pigs, and that this accounted
for the blood The father and
mother also seemed of the same opin-
ion, and chided the boy for what they
considered his mischievousness.-
Little did we imagine the fearful
spectacle that awaited us within the
house. Soon the door was reached,
little Gustave running on before and
opening it for us. Oh, horror OF
horrors The door was opened and
right before our eyes, hanging from
one of ofthe low beams that ran across
the room, was the dead, naked,
mutilated body of the precious little
boy, the youngest of Buthiere' chill
dren. The floor was covered with
clots and pools of blood, still warm
and steaming, and horrible to relate,
directly under the hanging corpse
were the bowels of the little fellow in
a heap, just as they had been torn
from the still warm body! The
mother, with a frantic shrick, swoon-
ed on the threshold, the father stood
transfxed with horror, whilst l, with
a sickening feeling leaned against
the doorpost, and with my hands
tried to shade my eyes from the hor-
rid sight. Some of the villagers
who were passing at the time, at
tracted by the shrieks of Mrs. Buth-
iere, came to the house. Their eX-
carnations aroused all but the poor
mother to consciousness, and we
soon became sensible to the fright
full nature ofthe deed that had taken
place. The boy Gustave, in the
meantime, stood near the centre of
the room, with a wondering look on
his youthful countenance, and gaz-
ing up in the appalled, face Of his
agonized father. Letme draw aveil
over the scene which followed, and
merely recount the following facts
which have been elected by an in
spection of the room and from the
confessions of the young fratricide.
1t would seem that shortly after Mr..
and Mrs. Buthiere had left their
homes for the purpose of attending
the lecture at the chapel, Gustave pro-
posed to his little brother, Adolph
that they should play killing pig
In this request, it is supposed the
unfortunate little fellow acquiesced.
The youngest was to be the pig, the
eldest the butcher Gustave eagerly
assisted his brother to undress for
the tragedy and, taking a small rope,
tied him down securely to rough
lounge that stood to the room he
then procured the butcher knife that
his father had used in slaughtering
the pigs the day before, and plunged
it into the throat Of his passive and
helpless brother. The wound was a
mortal one, and it is supposed that
death must have Immediately re-
suited. After the child had bled it's
little life away, the unnatural brother,
with the most incredible heartless-
ness, took the cord which confined
the body to the lounge, and tying
one end round the feet of the corpse,
threw the other over the beam, and
leaning his weight and strength,
hoisted the body to the position IN
which it was found then, not salts
fed with the programme thus far car
ried out, the little butcher must needs
disembowel his dead brother almost
in the exact manner in which the
boys father had the pigs the day be-
fore. I mention here that the boy
Gustave has always been considered
as possessing weak intellect, but
was thought to be a good hearted
and tractable child. What could
have induced him to commit this
fearful crime is beyond our conjec-
tnre, except it be from an unavoid-
able desire to initiate his father in
the killing Of the pigs. Since the
tragedy he has. seemed to realize in
a certain degree the fearful nature
of the deed, and cries bitterly when
he sees how unhappy his father and
mother are. At present he is kept
in close custody, but what disposi-
ton the authorities will make Of him
I cannot say.