The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-06
A French Horror.

The trial OF two men and three NO.
men who are accused Of having MUIR
dered in the most cold blooded manner
q matchmaker named Vetard. and then
Of having cut his body into pieces. be-
gan to-day at Auxerre. says o CORE.
%spondent to the Chicago Times: Vetard
vas an elderly village rou who lived
jim JOigny. He was separated from his
wife and associated with the lowest
company in town. He was suddenly
missed n day from his house and
shop, and the neighbors. suspecting
that something was wrong, went to his
residence and found that his place had
been pillaged. The alarm was given
and a disreputable woman Of the local
ity, a letter from whom was found
in one of Vetard's desks giving
him a trysting place for the night, was
arrested. Two men and another wo-
man were also taken into custody, but
each proved an alibi and they were
liberated. The next day, however.
the lower part of Vetard's body was
fished out of the River Youne by a
bargee. 1t had been sawed off from
the upper portion in a horribly rough
manner. BY degrees the hands. feet,
and smaller portions of the body came
to light. A woman named Godcfroy
TO- deposed to the police that she had
heard the sounds of Il fearful struggle
ON the night that Vetard was missed
in the house of one Josephine Martin.
This Martin was arrested and stated it
that it was she who had written the
letters and signed them with the name
of an old mistress of Vetard, in order
to entice the old man to her place,
where he had a quarrel with a poach-
er named Morand. She left her house,
but on her return she was terror-strick-
en- BY what she saw. The dead body
of Vetard was stretched on a table in
the middle of the room. The face and
flesh of the victim were pale and
shriveled, his throat having been cut
and the blood left to drain out of the
body. Morand and Vacher, an inn
keeper, were busily engaged with saws
and carving-knives. and they were sup
piled with refreshments as they dis
sected the body by their female COM
panion.
PARIS, May 18-The woman
Josephine Martin. in whose room the
matchmaker Vetard was murdered and
then hacked to pieces. deposed that
when she invited Veiard to her house,
at the lnstigation of the poacher Nor.
and. she thought the latter only intend
ed to play some pranks with the watch
maker; nevertheless, rs the judge re-
minded her, she had told Morand that
he could find a saw in her room. Ii
was true that the day after the murder
she was at q rustic ball and enjoyed
herself as if nothing had happened. The
crime was committed in her absence.
The witness then described the dissec-
ton with horrible cynicism. She said
that Morand and Vacher, the innkeep-
Ell, after having sawed off portions of
the body tried to break off others.
Vacher put the lower part of the
corpse ON his knees and snapped off a
leg just as if he were breaking a piece
of fire-wood. She had received she
admitted "a out of the plumber. Nor
and, the poacher, was next heard. He
is a forbidding-looking person, with a
low, re%treating forehead and cavern
Gus eyes. He denied everything and
said that Josephine Martin had been
instigated to denounce him by one of
the law officials. Vacher, the inn
keeper, who looked a veritable village
boniface, defended himself by similar
denials; but Martin steadfastly repeat
ed her charges and added moreover.
that, when Vacher broke Vetard's leg
a stocking remained in his hand and he
cody put it back on the foot. The
case is still on trial.