The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-07
A Murderer Self BETRAYED.
Innocence INDICATED After Sixteen Yea

"SAA hhO"A OpOid3 ITO l(tUUOGO,
# based on tragical events, which occurred il
France nearly one hundred and seventy
years ago. These facts are thus CONDENSED
from the Court records by Paris paper:
AT the beginning of the last century Their,
was 10 be seen IN the town of Lille very
quiet house. 1t was large building, bu
II contained only small famiy-a hus
band and wife and one servant girl The
Curlosltes Judlciares add that the married
couple were advanced in years, that they
lived quietly on their income, and saw very
few visitors, aud admitted no one to the
house except the people vino furnished
them with provisions, or otherwise minis.
ter to their wants. e0.
One night this couple, man aud wife,
were robbed, aud murdered in their bed
The servant girl had heard nothing OF
all this, and knew not what was going Oh.
The night was hot, the air dense and op-
presslvely sultry, so much SO that she had
TAKEN refuge In her room and sat, for the
sake OF GOODNESS; Invested Of her garments,
before large mirror. While there catch
ing sight OF herself she suddenly cried,
"How hateful one looks when naked!"
Having said this, she retired and slept
till morning, and rose as usual, without
suspecting what had happened.
She prepared breakfast as usual for her
master and mistress, but they did not come
down. She was amazed and waited a long
| time.
They did not appear.
Tired of waiting she sought their room.
| A horrible sight met her eyes, Blood was
smeared eyerywheoe, and on the bed Law
the poor old couple, cruelty, horribly, vilely
butchered-mangled as only a beast or
iiend could find it Ia his heart to mutiIate
victims after numbering them.
The girl raised an alarm aud the multi
tude came rushing in. Of course, Justice
came rushing after in the form of the DO
lice, with q judicial investigation. The
criminal was sought for, and, as none other
could be found, suspicion fell upon the I'M
fortunate servant
In those days they had horrible way of
getting at the truth. They called it ques-
taon5ng. The questions were put with
racks and thumb screws
The Lillios maid was UNANIMOUSLY tortur-
ed, even to extreme agony. Yet notwith-
standing her weakness, and her sex, she
endured the Internal torture without con-
Tossing anything. This was the more re-
ularkabie as she was entirely innocent, and
was IN consequence kept much longer IN
der torment to make her confess. AS there
were no proofs other having done anything,
they tlually let her go, as soon as she was
healed. Unfortu natey, the torture had
made her cripple. She could only hobble
along on her broken limbs and her arms
were withered
ND nli l., -. 4
she dragged her helpless form through the |
streets, and begged. She begged through
the streets of Lille for sixteen years. This
is all historically true-nay, more than his.
torically, for history often lies, while these
facts are drawn from the dry and accurate
records OF court. The worst part Of he,
suffering was that many people believed
her guilty, and soorned her accordingly.
1t appears from the record, that, during
these long years, while she went about with |
her withered arms aud bent back, her whole
frame still suffered from the torture, beg
glng copper son to buy her bread, that
she was always resigned, mild and exem-
plary in her conduct
One day after sixteen years of misery. she |
stopped to beg before the door of baker. |
She held out, through her rags, her naked
and mutilated arm toward the baker, who
stood on his door sill AS she did so he |
exclaimed, in hooking tone, while oh |
serving her want Of garments:
"Weil, Marie Anne, How hateful one
looks when naked-ha?''
Now it is remarkable that in all the six
teen years which had passed, Marie Anne
had not forgotten those words which she
had spoken when alone on the night of the
murder. It flashed upon her that the real
murderer might have heard them, and that
he stood before her, In brief, we learn that
the journeyrnan baker, when arrested con-
fessed the truth. He had regularly supplied
the old couple, and knew the ways into the
house He was hidden there on the night
OF the murder, and heard the girl when
she made the remark on her nakedness
And as the criminal is often by the will
OF Providence his own accuser,so this man,
following one of those eccentric and dan
gerous impulses which men often expert
ence, to say the most dangerous things,
had uttered to the girl the words of the ia
tai night. He was convicted of the crime
for which Marie Anne had been tortured
and suffered living death, and was bro
ken alive on the wheel in Lille.
The LOST RAoEs.-Almost every day
there are discoveries made of a now ex
tinct race These discoveries are generally
made by excavating in the mounds that
are scattered all over this land In the
shutheru portion of this county, near the
boundary of Indiana, stands several OF
these mounds, upon one of which there are