St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21

Rue MOrgue." But few may know the
sinister history of Coco, the ape, the
murderer of Pierre Labrichon. an old
curioSity-shop keeper in the Rue Lahtte'
Paris. on Aug. 8. 1869. For this CRIME
Jules Ronceau, the old mans clerk, was
tried and almost convicted. a geH-
darme secreted himself in the shop one
night soon after the murder ana
watched Coco. When the big bell or
NOtre Dame tolled its twelfth note the
ape dragged from under his straw III
his cage a huge blood-clotted hammer,
crept stealthily to the bed on which the
old man who had petted him had slept
and rained blows on the pillow where
his masters head had lain. The sailors
who had brought Coco to France told In
court how in fight i'll the forecastle
one night one of the crew had Drained
another with a hammer in Coco's pres
ence. The ape mad never lost an opDor-
tunity thereafter of Initiating the MUIR
derer's action that night. ROnceau was
cleared and the ape killed, stuffed and
set up in the museum.
SOME ARE EVEN CANNIBALs.
These sexual perverts,n for by this
name the Austin and Whltechapel
maniacS are best described, have eX-
listed in all ages. Cannibalism is strong
in the sexual pervert." He dev0urS
not infrequently the offending flesh he
has hacked away from his victim.
DIR. j, G.. Herman, editor of the Chicago
Medical Standard. says:
Sexual pervertS are not infrequently
met with in Russia, Germany. Bohemia
and France. In these lunaticS there is
a return to the animal passions or the
lowest eannibaliStic savage races. The
most noted of these cases was that OF
Giles de Refs. the original Blue Beard
of the reign of Louis XIV, who slaugh-
tered 200 female children in the same
way as the Whitechapel butcher. The
mutilatiOnS are very similar. A num-
Der of similar cases are on record In
which the murderer devoured the mu-
tilated. 1t was only few years ago, in
1888, that all WeStphalia, in Germany,
was reused by several mysterious muir
ders of females of the same type as
those of Whitechapel. The vampirism
of the middle ages, extending down
through the fourteenth. fifteenth, six
teenth, seventeenth and early nine
teenth century, was a phase of this
form of insanity"
MURDER MYSTERIES IN NEW YORK.
New York is not far behind London
in the number and enOrmity of her I'M
punished murders. The mystery of
Mary Cecilia Rogers, the beautiful
cigar girl, has passed into literature
under the pen of Poe. "Marie Roget"
as he called her, disappeared in the
Elysian Fields, III Hoboken, with six
rOugh-lOOking men, on Sunday in
1910. Her INITIATED body was found in
the river near the SYPHILIS cave, close to
Castle Point. Her brutal assailants
have never been traced.
Il ftRl rfrl
was hacked to death on her bed at IL
Thomas street, April II, 1886. The
murderer has never been found. His
weapon was a Ratchet. The beauty
of the victim, the dainty luxury of her
surrounding, the savage passion with
which her fair limbs were butchered
and her perfect features beaten out of
human Semblance, gave the case ma
tIOnal notoriety. Her real name was
Doras Doyen, and she was the hand
soonest and most notorious woman of
her class in the city.
The old Burdell house, at 81 Bond
street, is being torn down. 1t was the
scene of a shocking murder, which
would not ''out" At 1880 on the night
of Friday, Jan. 30, 1857, a piercing cry
was heard from this house, where DR..
Harvey Burdell, wealthy and eceen-
litC uCilliol. llNCNt anu lt.b Oub lOhS
1t was his death-cry. He had taken in
as dodgers not long before Mrs. Cum
ningham and her two daughters. 1t
was claimed by the widow that she and
DR.. Burdell had been married. She ac-
cordingly got her dover rights in his es-
tate. The crime is unayenged.
"Curly Tom" was the name by which
Annie DOwney was known. She was
murdered within stones throw of the
Eighth predinct station house during
the night of Friday. Jan. 16, 1880, under
circumstances so mysterious as TO defy
the efforts of detective skill to discover
the faintest clue to her murderer. She
was throttled with a FELLOWSHIP in her
room, IL Prince street.
The most famous of New York'S I'M
| avenged murders is that of Benjamin
Nathan, the wealthy stock broker, at
his home, IL West Twenty-third street,
July 2S, 1870. Fifty thousand dollars
reward was offered for the murderer.
The details of this case have often been
retOld.
OTHER BUTCHERS OF THE DECADE.
The most conspicuous French multi
ator OF recent date was PranZini, who
cut the throats of his last mistress and
| her maid, after cutting nobody knows
! how many women's threats before. But
the worst French butcher of women of
| the decade was Albert Pei, the cousin
of BerliOz. the composer. He was vast
| ly inferior in fineSse to the Austin or
Whitechapel slaughtererS. He began
on his own mother, following with his
first and second wives. his first and sec
Ond mistresses and a servant maid. Az
arice was the leading motive, if motive
| there can be in mania. Schenck, of vi
emma, who killed sixteen women, got
them ali into his power by promising
marriage to servant girls, suggesting
| elopementS, and numbering them at the
point on the road where they were to
meet him for departure. He hacked
and hewed them and their clothing and
scattered their fingers and noses along
| the roadside.