The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-05
PARIS LEADS THE WORLD.
Her Murders More AtrociOus and Fetes Moro
Brilliant Than Any.

There has been an epidemic OF muir
der in France for some time past, and
many of the crimes have been of the
most ghastly description. Brittany
seems to have the unenviable distinc-
ton of excelling in this respect. 1t is
lot long since Il farmers wife near St.
Brienc chopped her husband to pieces
to make him quit drinking. A still
more savage crime, writes II Partisan
to The NeW YOr% World occurred in the
same district recently.
Jean Faurc, a youth of IS years, was
employed as a Farmland by Nine.
JOsselin, a widow. He fell in love
with the widows daughter, Celestine,
who was Is years of age. He knew
he had no chance of marrying her, as
she was wealthy and had hosts of
admirers. Among them was a young
farmer named Princemain, on whom
all the Jealous hatred of Faure center
ed. He vowed that Princemain Should
never marry Celestine. One day the
latter went to visit her uncle, the par
ish priest of a neighboring village.
She was to return home in the after
moo
Faure determined to lay in wait for
her. He armed himself with q rifle, a
reaping. hook, and a sheath-knife.
About three hours later Celestine APP
peared. Faure, who was concealed in
a cOpse by the wayside, rushed for
ward and seized he~. He united her
long hair. rolled it round his hand, and
dragged her into the copse. He then
sat down, placed her head between
his knees, and proceeded to saw her
head off with the r~eapiEg-hook. She
fought desperately for a time, and
then tainted. Faure picked up his
rifle and tried to shoot her, but the cap
had been wet from lying in the grass,
and failed to 90 off. He then resumed
his reaping-hoOk and the saving OPP
GRAFTON. The girl, meantime, had re-
covered her senses, and fought her
murderer with all energy of despair.
After having her hands mutilated in a
frightful manner she succeeded in
wrestling the bloody weapon from his
grasp. He then drew his knife and hack
ed off her nose and slashed her face to
pieces. "YOu are bound to kill me,
then?" she moaned, as she fell back
exhausted. II am" replied the MUIR
derer, cody, and hacked away leisure
ly. Her cries, meantime, lad attract
ed two passers-by, Jean Couellan and
Pierre BRAND. As they approached
Faure fled. Celestine was so disfig-
ured with blood and wounds that they
did not recognize her. On learning
who she was it was agreed that Brian
should go to the village for help, while
Couellan should remain with the VIC
tim. But as darkness set in Couellan
lost courage and, needless of the en-
treaties of the wounded girl, abandon
ed her.
He hal no sooner vanished than
Faure, who had been concealed near
by, reappeared. "Ah!" he exclaimed,
''you told them | was the marderer.
Well, you will tell it no more And
as he spoke he plunged his knife into
her breast. He then jumped with his
heavy boots upon her bleeding face,
and having stuffed her mouth with
clay and leaves left her for dead.
Meantime BRAND, accompanied by the
priest and a score of villagers, return
ed and found the girl lying almost life
less on the ground. They knelt around
her and 500 discovered signs of life.
She vas brought home, and for weeks
hung between life and death. The
doctors refused to do anything further
than dress her horrible wounds, as
they pronounced her recovery inn
possible. The liquid food she took
used to pour out through the gaping
wound in her throat. And yet,
in spite of the doctors, she has re-
covered.
Her would-be murderer hid in the
woods and swamp, occasionally rem
turing out to the farm-houses when
compelled by hunger. One man, con-
victed of having given him shelter,
was condemned TO a months Impris-
onment. For FIVE weeks six brigades
of gendarmerie and q hundred peas
ants armed with rifles beat the coun-
try around ia search of him. He was
finally captured. Last Wednesday he
was tried and condemned to lifelong
imprisonment at hard labor, although
the jury-for all French juries do that
admitted extenuating circumstances
in his favor. Several murders of an
equally brutal character have occurred
III the provinces.
Mgr. Sogaro, vicar apostolic of GEN.
trail Africa, residing in Cairo. has re-
ceived a letter from one of the Sisters
of Charity held in captivity by FL
Mehdi in khartenm. The letter Is de-
ted from Undurman, where Ell Mahdi
has his headquarters. 1t is written in
pencil on a hair handkerchief, and is
illegible in many places. 1t narrates
briefly the ~unspeakable sutferings to
which the prisoners have been sub
jected. 1t suggests a plan for their
relief, and recommends that thalers
be sent instead Of gold, as gold loses
two-thirds of its value in the Soudan.
1t warns against writing to FL Mehdi
in their favor, as such intervention
would in all likelihood result In their
II Iaath II cfafao that tho nhahstapf M