Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-01
Followed Up for More Than Tear, in
the Host Revolving Way by This
Unnatural Parent, Until
An ACCIDENT CAUSED ITS DISCOVERY.
Tia Brutal Mother ID Arrested and narrowly
Escapes Being Torn to Pieces By In
furiatsa Heighbon.
TEI eunIoTNE WILL LIKELY CLAIM HER
rsr puNLAP,s GABLE coAPANr.l

rBY DUNLAP's GABLE COAPAHr.l
PARIS. Feb. 2S.-M. Zola's theories as to
the brutality of the lower classes seem to be
confirmed by the discovery of fresh case
of inhumsnity across the Seine in the Rue
de Seyeres, one of the thoroughfares of the
Quarter Latin. Living there with her
only child, boy, Marie Chapoteaut, the
divorced wife of Belgian workman named
Nystin, picked up a precarious livelihood
BY sewing. Marie, now aged %, is an un-
usually pretty brunette, but her good looks
have somewhat faded since she played fancy
free and innocent on her fathers farm near
the old university town of LouVain, in Bel
gium.
y But although pretty, Marie was never
very amiable. Her temper was easily ruff
fed, and her black eyes snapped fire on very
slight provOcation. She, however, grew
we'll toward maturity without any adven-
lures more remarkable than passing hirta-
tions with the university students, for which
the quaint old city, with its numerous fine
churches, its picture galleries, its botanical
gardens and other places of resort, retired
vet easily accessible, furnished ample oppor-
tunity.
Into a Forced Wedding
The time at last came, however, when
Pere Chapoteaut said that flirting must
cease and the real business OF lie begin.
He proposed that Marie should marry Jean
Nystiu, a, workman skilled in the weaver's
craft, and foreman Of large factory. AL
though Marie could not bring herselfto enter
tain any very warm feeling for her fancee,
she was forced to yield to her fathers
wishes, or else also rear the standard of re-
volt against the parental authority, a step
that she was not then prepared to take.
She therefore submitted to the inevitable
and bided her time. After few years that
saw the birth of their only child. Jean had
an unusually tempting offer to remove to
the French capital. There he took q posi-
tion similar to the one he held in Lotvain,
but far better paid. She had not been long
in this CAV capital before Marie had lost her
heart and for the first time fallen seriously
in love with Paul Lemaitre, perhaps one of
the most worthless youths that had ever been
sent up from the provinces to take his degree
at the College de France.
Transferred to the Divorce Court
The amour had lasted several months
when prying neighbor placed Jean on his
guard, and the lovers, unaware of his sus-
picions, gave him ample opportunities to
precipitate the scene that he did not hesi-
tate to make. The result was that the
matter was soon adjudged in the courts and
Jean was left free to mate with some more
worthy woman.
By some extraordinary oversight, how
ever, poor little Pierre was left in the Gus
tody of his mother, whose treasure of love
had all been expended when she poured out
the wealth of her affections upon her lover.
If she ever knew a mothers love, it was now
turned to hatred of the man who had
robbed her OF a comfortable home and
turned her adrift upon the world. 1t would
not have been strange if she had abandoned
her offspring by the wayside or thrown it
into the Seine, or disposed of it in some
other way, but the intensity of her feeling
against the child's father incited her to q
more ingeniOusly iendish revenge.
Horrible Course of Torture.
Nearly a year ago she began q course of
systematic cruelty that would seem improb-
able if found detailed in the pages of a
bIood-and-thunder romance. Suspending
her victim by one arm to the ceiling, haV-
ing first carefully gagged it to stife its
shrieks, she would burn its body with hot
irons and cash its tender flesh with scissors.
Pierre was SO enfeebled BY this torture
that he was more dead than alive when
found, which he would not have been but
for the merest accident. Last Tuesday smoke
was discovered coming out of Marie's
apartments in her absence, and the neigh
bors burst open the door. There they found
the poor child in a small closet, on pile of
rags, aud although Pierre was at first afraid
to speak, the good-hearted commeres of the
adjoining rooms by deft questioning soon
drew from him the dreadful story.
Arrest of the Fiendish Mother.
To apprise the police was the work Of a
few moments, and the gendarmes soon ar
rived and took possession Of the premises,
consigning the unfortunate child, whose
body was a mass of burns and putrefying
sores, to the tender care of good Sisters in
the Hospital des Enfants.
When Marie returned from a ramble in
the luxembourg with some of her student
friends an immense crowd had gathered in
front of the building, and had she been rec
ogniEed as the inbuman mother she would
10 doubt have been torn to pieces on the
spot. Fortunately for her she was able to
get inside and in communication with the
officers before she was discovered.
AS it was, during her passage to the
station she received anything but fatter-
ing ovation. Only the presence OF strong
bOoy of police saved her for the sharp but
wholesome ministrations OF the guilIotine.