Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-11-15
TERRIBLE MURDER IN NEW Or
LEANS.
A Father Stabs His Daughter to the
Hearth Modern Virginius.

The New Orleans Times brings N
the particulars of the murder of Caro-
line Hugel by her father. Joseph HUI
gel, on the levee in that city, just aftel
leaving the steamer on which the
had both arrived from Bordeaux
France, from which we briefly gather
the following facts:
Scarcely had the hurry incident t.
the mooring of the ship subsided thai
many of the passengers hurried for
ward, anxious to set foot again on ter,
ra-frma. Following several of the
eager passengers, and accompanied By
young man and two young girls, was
young woman, plainly but neatly at
TIRED, and passably handsome, who
apparently as joyous as any, tripped
lightly down the gangway to the wharf
across which she, with her companions
pursued their way. They had made
scarcely more than twenty steps from
the end of the staging when mar
rushed forward, and facing the foul
addressed word to the young woman
which in moment he followed NJ
by
AN OATH AND A STAB,
and with a wild shrek she threw her
arms mp and fell backward. A demon
appeared to have possessed the man,
for drawing his large sheath knife from
her breast, into which he had buried
it to the handle, he delivered another
thrust, but this was given as the young
woman was falling, and the reach was
short, hence the point of the terrible
instrument entered but about an
inch.
The first thrust was a mortal one,
the knife, as it was subsequently aseer-
tanned, having
CENTERED THE HEART
A feeling of horror seemed to per-
wade the numerous witnesses to the
tragic scene, and chilled them into a
perfect silence for a moment, during
which time the man looked upon his
bloody work /; but this momentary lull
was suddenly disturbed by cry of
horror from the multitude, which
aroused the man from the contempla-
ton of his horrid deed; whereupOn he
turned, and apparently actuated by a
sudden terror he fled, followed BY a
shrieking, maddened crowd, who evin-
ced disposition to string him up in
stantly, some calling loudly.fOr rope,
and others crying kill him." With
this hue and cry behind him the man
retreated precipitately across the levee
in the direction of the houses beyond
the street, and he eventually took ref
uge in paint-shop, still holding his
knife and threatening his pursuers.
Despite his threat to deal destruc-
ton to any mortal, one gentleman ap-
preached him as he stood at bay in the
paint-shop, and, taking the knife from
his grip, led him forth prisoner.
The Times reporter says the fend
took the matter very cOolly in Jail, and
attempted to justify himself by stating
that the conduct of the girl had been
very bad on ship board, and that he
feared she would desert him and lead
an abandoned life. 1t seems he had
left his family in Alsatia in 1866 and
came to America. In California he had
made small fortune keeping a beer
saloon, and his wife dying at home, he
went to Europe to bring out his daugh-
ter, aged %, and a very promising
young woman, whose hand he had al
ready disposed of in marriage to his
partner. He found her in Paris acting
as a servant, and induced her to accom-
pany him. When on the ship, she per-
sisted in keeping company with a
couple of young Frenchmen contrary
to his wishes, and threatened to quit
her, and he determined to kill her to
save the family honor. The story told
by the passengers is, however, very
different. They all speak of the con-
duct OF the young lady as being very
modest and exemplary, and say her
treatment by her father was so brutal
and inhuman that they had frequently
to protest against it and interpose for
her protection. If what they say will
be borne out by the testimony, instead
of the honors due Virginius, this
would-be Roman father richly deserves
the gallUws.