The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-12
A TALE OF HORROR.
Terrible Murder near Paris-A Dread
full Scene in the subur bs-An Entire
Family Hacked to Pieces-E1traordi-
nary Excitement at the Morgue.

The Paris correspondent OF lne Hon"oi
Herald gives the following account OF myste-
rious and horrible murder which is just now
the talk of the gay capital:
crime unparalleled in magnitude and afro
city Is cansing great sensation In Paris. yes
terday morning farm laborer living at Fan
tin, suburban village just outside the fortih-
cations to the northeast OF Paris, was crossing
a field on his way to his work, when his at
tention was caught by large fakes Of blood In
piece Of waste ground, part Of which appeared
to have been plOughed or dug by an 1neXpe-
rienced hanl. Whilst pondering on how the
blood could have got there, ne saw something
white under clod of earth, and pulled II out;
sS Il Sncbes %hte WRS rOre and on
removing it, he saw a human hand
sticking out of the ground. He imme-
diately ran off to the C0mmissary of Police,
and soon returned to the spot with assistance,
and spades having been procured, discovery
was made which struck horror into the hearts
nj ali who beheld it. Six corpses successively
came to light, as shOvelful after shoyelful OF
earth was removed, evidently thOEe Of mo-
ther and her five children, ell Of them literally
cut 10 pieces, and one or two OF the bodies
hacked and hewed in manner too sickening
to describe. The first body discovered was
that Of little girl of I, fearfully hacked about
the neck; the second that of O. boy OF
IA; the third that of little girl, mere baby
her abdomen had been laid open, and the in
testines te ont as the body was taken up; but
her face, Ike that Of the other victims had
been gashed over possibly with view TO pre-;
vent Identification; the fourth was tne oooy OF
the mother, woman about 35, and then Two
Lads of about IL and l6. The former had been
ADutchered In a hideous way; his head was cut
TO pieces aud one OF his eyes had been
forced from the orbit. The bodies had been laid
st the feet Of each other, and were covered by
about three feet Of earth, and the murderer OF
murderers had tried to give the ground the ap-
:Dearance OF. ploughed land, forming 1t into FUR
rows. The victims were all most respectfully
dressed ; one or the boys wore the uniform Of
Dueof the Lyceums; they all had some money In
their pockets, the mothers earrings had not
been touched, and one Of the boys had watch.
The people at the Pantin Railway station re,
member family whose people corresponded
with that Of the victims arriving there on the
previous evening Sunday with tickets from
Raincy 1t is said that the bodies were still
quite warm when they were dlslnterred, rom
which it Is inferred that the murder must nave
been committed at about 8 A. H.. on Monday,
and lie could net have been entirely extinct
iFhen the mrderers heaped the earth over
athem. Whatis fairly surprising is, that In spot
30 close 20 so many large buildings (the Fort
fHtber ervillier5 where SentTies are constantly on
duty, for instance IS not more than hffy yards
Eom the field OF blood) six persons could be thus
'bntchesed without raising an alarm. Again, 1t
seems difficult to understand that, assuming
the, victims to hare arrived at Pantin IN the
course oe Sunday evening, they should have
walked about the fields all night unit! tney
were set uponi and murdered. The bodies
have been taken to the Morgue, but, as write,
had not been identified Among the many
eonJecss.res that are offered Is one TO the effect
that the murderer must have been the father
or some relative anxious to get rid OF the en-
cumbrance of o family, But 1t Is impossible to
admit that any one man could fnf1ict not less
than sixty wounds, then dig trench and bury
the bodies of his victims. The only rational
suppositiop Is that they must have gone into
some lodglng-house for refreshment, and
there been drugged and murdered during their
lethargy.
and found the gates besieged by upwards OF
two thousand people The bodies were not ex-
posed, the doctors being at that time engaged
in the post-mortem examination. under
stand that it has been ascertained that the
mother was encei,ate. The buttons of the boys
clothes bear the address Of a Roubaix tailor.
The Public this evening says the bodies have
been identified by hOte[keeper In Paris as
those of q family which arrived In town
few days ago. The pOjice are On the alert,
and II Is said that two men are arrested on
suspicion. It would appear that the victims
were suddenly assailed, as two OF the chill
drens hands held convuisively clasped In their
death-grip piece Of bread and butter and
piece Of cold sausage. The wounds OF two OF
the boys lead to the impression that they nad
made stout fight of 1t. Public excitement on
the subject is intense. 0sl
THE VICTIMS IDENTIFIED.
Alstar flisnatch from the same correspondent