The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
The Most Remarkable Grimes Of Mod
ern Times.

The Paris correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette writes: The Limours MUIR
ders are some of the most remarkable
crimes of modern times. About month
ago q man named Poirier was arrested on
the charge of having murdered two chill
dren who had been left at home while
their parents went to fete in the neigh
borhOod: the victims were to have gone to
the fete in their turn in the afternoon. On
the crime becoming known the whole
country turned out armed with guns.
pitchfOrks, etc, and Poirier was surround.
ed, brought TO bay, and captured. He al
once confessed TO having assassinated the
two children. and further revelations led the
authorities TO suspect that the same ruffian
committed the Limours murders. In
January, 1873, an old man and his wife
were felled at nightfall and their house
robbed. In September an old servant was
struck down at in the evening. and
would have been killed but for the cries OF
the cure. On the 26th of the same month
an old mas had his skull beaten i'm about
Z p. IN. On the 18th of November another
old man was murdered under exactly the
same circumstances, and on the 18th OF
December two old maids livingin the same
house were felled with bar of iron about
in the evening.
After this there was 4 lull because de.
tectives and gendarmes were dispatched
from Paris to Limours, which is only a
few leagues off. Special correspondents
too, visited the spot, and several arrests
were made on the indication of the post
man who, having carefully written down
the names of the criminals, hanged him.
self, as one might suppose in testimony OF
having told the truth. All the men de-
nounced by Desire Legrand were able to
prove their innocence, and after a few
months confinement they were released
The police had to take the field once more,
but they could find no trace of the culprit
or culprits. At last came the crime near
Nogent (which is also close 10 Paris), and
the hattue which ended in the capture OF
Poirier.
Since his arrest POirier has confessed to
the following crimes November, 1873,
two old women struck down and killed
with a Ratchet, near Vendome. Jan. ),
1874, an old woman named Lubun MUIR
dered with the blow of stake. Jan. 10
an old woman killed with an iron bar al
Charbonnie-es. Then the two children
before mentioned aSsassinated at Tertre
with Ratchet. All these crimes, with
the exception of the last, were committed
at nighttall, and at a considerable distance
from where the prisoner resides, and he
says that if he had kept to his system OF
killing old people in the evening instead
of numbering children in broad daylight
he would not be in his present deplOrable
situation,
The confessions of POirier are dramatic
in the extreme. AT CharbOnnieres he
nV~gT hot hAr into mi, Oh. nd
asked Nine. Beard for a drink he of,
fered piece of 20 francs in payment, and
as the old woman was getting the change
he struck her heavy blow over the head
At this moment he heard the Bazoche
mail cart coming along, so he fastened the
door and hid himself in the stable The
driver, wishing TO take a glass, called to
the aubergiste a cOupleOf times, and then
got down and tried for some time, but in
vain, to getintO the house. When the mail
cart had driven away. POirier returned,
finished his victim, who had only been
stunned, and made his escape, after hav-
ing robbed the till. With regard to the
assassinatiOns committed in November,
1873, POirier says that he went to the
house of the old women and knocked, but
they refused to open the door. He then
began to try and break into the cottage.
demanding money. The old women be-
came so terrified that they at last opened
the door and gave him G2Of Unfortu-
nately, when he was going away one of
them followed him and said, II know
you, POirier!" Upon this Poirier re-
turned, felled Nine. Lecomte, and then,
after desperate struggle under the table,
succeeded in numbering Nine. RiOllet.
The opinion of the police is that POirier
is also guilty of the LimOurs murders, but
this he denies as yet; he also declares that
he had no accOmplices.