Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-22
COLUMBUS, o., FRIDAY MORNING.,
An AIrOcIOuss Y0ung CrlmfhhI-
Ii He Kills one Person and Wants
10 Kill fOur Others. ~ rfof az |

| IA young man of nineteen years, named
Charles Felix Lemaire, has just been
sentenced, to death at Paris, for murder.
His father, aman of sixty -eights haIing1ost
his wife. was abOut to marry a widow
named ,Bainvibe. who bad a daughter of
seventeen. This enraged young Lemaire.
and l0nethe 10th vOf December, the day be-
fore the marriage was to be celebrated, he
entieed Madame BainVille from room
where she was atsw0rk with her daughter
and three young girls. Leading her into
an empty APARTMENT, he threw. cord round
her neck. which he had previously tied to
ahoOk fastened ,in the wall for that pur-
pose. She resisted. and ugot her hand be-
tween her neck and the cord, 7whem hertO0k
afknife; which he had previously bought,
and ground so as to make Ii a two-edged
weapon. and stabbed her in the face, the
neckcther breast back and other parts of
the body The daughter, who heard her
lmOtheFis shrieks, rushed down Stairs, and
| she and the porter of the house found the
door: fastened ON the inside., They then
forced it opens when they saw the unfor-
| tunate woman leaning against the wal, l,cOV-
Tered all over with wounds, and literally
lbatbednina O blOOds She threw herself into
her daughter' 'siaFms and then fell dead. Be
hind her stood the murderer with his shirt
sleeves tucked sup.i Ia long knife, dripping
with blood, with the point bnOken,i iIt IN |
l'haDds. II He stopped over his victim, and
| happy at having avenged himself, and that
the only regret hehad was not having time
] to do the same to three others, as he had
made up his mind to murder; four persons !;
that he was neither. mad nor drunk, and
that newell knew the scaffold awaited him.
When the Commissary of the Police ap-
4 lpeared he told him that eighteen months
| before he had resolved to kill his father. t5
1 Agreeablegto French custom, when I.e-
maire was brought before the court he was
anterrogated at length in regard to the mo-
tives and circumstances of his horrible
crime, He said that he was, on the whole,
very glad that his mother had dief owne1
that he had been very undutitul son to
his kind parents; that he had designed
I! poisoning his father, or rather perhaps had
} threatened to do so, without intending to
| larry the threat into execution, merely to
| make the old man miserable.aoH .h9y!y9"f
| After some further questions as to his
habits previous to tthe commission of the
crime, and which he answered in the same
| manner, the Judge said: CLElEE .7iZ
Did you not swear that your fathers mar
riage should not take place? did; / said
to myself ,'They want to marry, do they {?
Well, then, take upon myselfto give them
the nuptial blessing" 1G.sds 80.
That is to say, to murder them? Yes,
the whole lot; the widow Bafnville to
begia with, athen her daughter, then the
young apprentice, because she was in my
way and might disclose the first two
crimes ;and meant to crown all by killing
my fathersl 1si7Ei 8t.5--,Q-T ~ so Il
| Did you not act so out OF cupidity9 Fol-
But what had the apprentice to do with
that? Against her j had nothing to say
but she was in my way. and she might have
discovered what / had done before l could
finnish my task. gE 90 .sIl. sI.1 10 s1
So that you meant to get rid of every
lone in your way with the knife? Yes, if
scould. .if-,5fsa eat ~ I'll .sgsrg 500 -.ra.
And your father Oh, as for my father
II kept him for the last. What / intended
was to murder him in his sleep. 1a ssisE4a
| . You had. planned your crime some
time before? !? About eighteen months be-
fore. $50 las.hf8 s.if - aoi5ua7-G enIs- .Ef
What were your plans 2 meant to be-
gin by strangling the widow BainVille
and throw her body into the cellar aftel
hhaviHg cut her throat to make sure she wa
fdead. =, meant to do the same to he
daughter; then to the apprentice girl /; anC
tat night, when my father was in bed ant
asleep, to kill him. .ai ni .-.Gs@ 10 "za9g
| s. In what way, did you propose to commi
all these crimes? First, to try strangula
tions; then to cut their throats with the ra
tzor that is now on the table before you
faHd then fling the bodies into the cellar
the trap-door of which had left open
I For that purpose ]: bought the cord you se
There, and the large nail which L, fixed Ill
the wall after bending the end of it to pre-
tvent the cord from slipping off! The knit
l put on the table within my reach, taking
care to hide the blade undersome rags, AM
only leaving the ,haft visible lssiLasi ef
I What did you intend to do after you ha
done all that? To take the keys of tn
widow Bainville,l and then those of M
Efather, steal all the money Isgcould la,
hands on, and quit the house. knew YER
Ewell that 1 should soon be taken, but a
tlleast should have had a few days TO diver
myself in the meantime. ~ "-.., -. -
Did not the horror Of your crime max
you pause? Oh, of course !! (ironieally).