The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-24
THE HORRORS OF THE BAGNE.


AN INNOCENT LuNATIC's TERRIBLE SUFFER-
INGs-THE LASH, THE CHAIN AND sTARvAs
TION DIET-AN INFAMOUS RAsCAL's CON
| FEsSlON.
1t was on the 2lst of February, 1914, that
"A young man named Charles Demoisin was
called to the bar in the court of criminal as
sizes, in Paris,
The courtroom was crowded, for Dunno
isin was accused of having assassinated his
young wife Isabella and his mother-in,law,
Nine. Cragnonc, by administering large
dose OF arsenic to them in two cups ofchoc.
olate.
The prosecuting attorney briefly stated
the facts in the case. They were as follows
Young Mime. Dumosin, although her hus-
band was poorly paid clerk in lead pen
oil factory, was excessively fond Of fine
dresses.
To CRAFTY this passion she squandered
her husbands earnings, and contracted in
his name debts amounting to 1900 francs,
Tor which he was constantly harassed. His
troubles had seriously affected his mind.
lie had grown morose and quarrclsomc,
and often threatened to kill his wife.
The latter had fled to the house of her
mother whittier her husband had pursued
her, and when Madame CragnOne took her
daughters part, he had muttered:
Beware, mother, or | shall give you, too,
a DOSE
Madame Dumosin and her mother,
frightened by his threats, had returned to
| his house.
On the following day, after their return,
DumoiSin bought some chocolate, and each
Of them drank large cupful, Dumoisin
not touching his cup.
The two unfortunate women were at once
taken sick, They yomitcd, and complained
Of terrible pains in the stomach.
DumOisin did not send for physician,
although his servant girl urged him do so.
Fifteen minutes a.terward his wife and
mothcr-in-law died in terrible agony.
Duminsin left the house, went to "A saloon
and got drunk. lie was arrested, and said
to the policeman that apprchendcd him:
"lf they are dead they deserved it. They
have goadcd me to Madness
He was put in solitary CELL where he
acted like u lunatic. He refused for days
to eat any food and sang dittics of disgust
ing ribaldry.
When taken at last before the examining
magistrate, he said:
"WclI, cut my head off, if you please, but
do not look for any confessions from me-"
On his trial he refused to answer the
questions Of the presiding Judge. The
jury found him guilty of murder, with cX-
tcnuating circumstances, and he was sen
fenced to penal servitudc for life.
Three days later he was sent to the Bagnc
Of Toulon.
There he refused to obey the rules, and
was, in consequence, subjected to all the
horrors Of bagnc discipline.
His record showed that from July, 1914,
to August, 1864, he received no fewer than
eleven thousand and two hundred lashcs.
He spent duriug that time upward of one
year chained to the stone floor of the dark
cell. During nearly half Of that time
bread and water were his only nourish.
ment
The prison authorities declared that they
| had never seen more unruy convict.
Suddenly, in September 1864, the EN-
peror Napoleon pardoncd the wrctchcd
man, because it had been discovered that he
was perfectly innocent. A brother of Nine.
Cragnonc, Randolph Cragnonc, Il Paris gro
GER informed the authorities that he had
mixed arsenic in u cake of chocolate which
he had sent to Dumisin's house for the pur-
pose of killing his sister and her daughter,
so that he could inherit the five hundred
francs which Mime. Cragnonc had deposited
in savings bank.
Cngnone was guillotined early in 1863
Dumisin was found to be hopclessly in
sane He died in the lunatic asylum Of
Charcnton, in 1869.
QuERy.--Why will men smoke common
tobacco when they can buy Marburg Bros