The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-05

THE MOST REMARKABLE GRIMES or MODERN
TIMES.

tlit Mt'Nl REMARKABLE NEiMI~ iF MtDEEN
TIMES.
The I.imOur. murders are some of the
most remarkable crimes Of modern times.
About n month ago man named poirer
was arrested on charge of having murder
rd two children who had been left ut home
while their parents went to a fetc in the
neighborhood the victims were to have
gone to the fetc in their turn IN the after
noon. On the crime becoming known the
whole country turned out, armed with guns,
pitchforls, etc, and PORTER was surround
ed, brought to bay, and captured. lie ut
once confessed 70 having assassnatcl The
two children, and further revelations led the
authorities to suspect that the same ruilan
committed the Limouis murders. In jun
uiry, 1878, an old man and his wife were
teled at nigh fall and their house robbed.
In September an old servant was struck
down at seven in the evening, and would
have been killed but for the cnes of the
cure. On the Goth of the same month an
old man had his skull beaten at about seven
in the evening. On the 1871 of November
another old man was murdered under eX-
actly the same circumstances. aud on the
25th of December two old maids living in
the same house were fellcd with bar OF
iron about nine in the evening.
After this there was lul. because de-
tectives and gcndarmes We're dispatched
from Paris to Limours, which is only few
leagues off. Special correspondents, too,
visited the spot, and several arrests were
made on the indication of the postman,
who, having carefully written down the
names of the criminals hanged himself, as
one might suppose, in testimony of having
tcld the truth. All the men denounced by
Desire Legrand were able TO prove their
innocence, and after few months con-
finement they were released. The police
had to take the field once more, but they
could find no trace of the culprits. At
last came the crime near Nogent, which is
also near to Paris, and the battue which
ended the capture of PORTER.
Since his arrest Poirier has confessed to
the following crimes November, 1873,
two old women struck down and killed
with Ratchet, near Nendome. January 5,
1874, an old woman named Lebun, muir
dered with the blow of q stake January
10; an old woman killed with an iron bar
at Carbonneres Then the two children
before mentioned, assassinated at Tertrc
with Ratchet. All these crimes, with
the exception of the last, were committed
at nightfall, 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
al, 80, l., Ill. l.
would not be in his present deplorablc sit
uation.
The confessions of Poirler are dramatic
in the extreme. AT Carbonnieres he says
he went into wine shop and asked Nine.
Beard for drink; he offered piece of 90
francs in payment, and as the old woman
was getting the change he struck her a
heavy blow over the head. At this mo-
ment he heard the BaZochc mail-cart
coming along, so he fastened the door and
hid himself in the stable. The driver,
wishing to take Il glass, called to the
auDergiste couple of times, and then got
down and tried for some time. but in vain,
TO get into the house. When the mail
cart had driven away, POirier returned,
finished his victim, who had only been
stunned, and made his escape, after having
robbed the till. With regard to the assass-
nations committed in November, 1873,
'oirier says he went 10 the house of the old
women and knocked, but they refused to
open the door. He began to try and break
into the cottage. demanding money. The
old woman became so terrified that at last
they opened the door and gave him G20f.
Unfortunately. when he was gong away
one of them followed him and said. II
know you, Poirier." Upon this Poirler
ROT ~ al l.1 I Al
after desperate struggle under the table,
succeeded in numbering Nine. Riollet. The
opinion of the police is that PORTER is also
guilty Of the Iimours murders, but this he
denies as yet; he also declares that he had
no accumDiccs