The Red Cloud chief., 1896-08-21

TAI W tI'
MY plea of insanity as
N.SY an extenuation of
his crime. says the
New York World. But here Is the re-
markable story Of a cunning murderer
VINO feigned insanity even before tho
commission OF the crime, surrendered
hlmseIf red-handed to the police and
confessed the deed, while his foolish
ntterances and the peculiarly shocking
ana unnatural circumstances of the
murder convinced the judges that none
but a mailman could have committed
so hideous a crime.
so complete and mastery was the
acting of the assassin that even tho
lunacy experts who examined him were
deceived. One false step. however, ey-
posed the murderer and turned his feet
from the asylum to the guillotine.
Al about IL o'clock or the night of
Dec. =. 1885, a young man carrying a
travelling bag of black serge presented
himself at tho gate OF the hospital of
st. Louis, in the Rue Bichat. The
satchel, which was suspended from his
shoulder by a leather strap. bulged at
the sides as If it contained a spherical
object.
Eth bien.' he cried to the doorllecp-
cr, Il come to ask you to examine my
brother. who is very i'll. Open the
door for us"
When the door was opened he AT
once entered and stepped into the re-
ceptlon room. saying that he wanted 10
consult a doctor concerning his brother
II that he had heard voices that had
ordered him to make this great sacri-
nee. Alarmed by the mans ~incoherent
talk n his wild aspect. the doorkeep-
er called two p%orters, who took him
u to the commissaire of police at
the Porte st. Martin.
There the man opened the satchcl
and held IL under the light of n gas
burner. The police agents were horri-
fled to see that it contained the head OF
a young man Of about 20.
The mailman, as they believed him to
be, said to them:
1T Is my brothers head! Ny brother
Alphonse,"
This head, which had been skillfully
severed from the trunk, was covered
with brownish-golden hair. The fea-
lures showed refinement.
The commissaire Of police sought by
prudent and searching questions to
hnd out how the mailman had come in
TO possession Of the head. The fratri-
eide replied without hesitation that his
name was Baptiste LaEorie, born at
Calvinet, ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of Aurillac.
on April >. 1868. He was a house-ser-
want OF the mayor of Pouilly-les-F Posses
and had had for some time the idea
that his brother Alphonse, who lived
at home with his father in Senezuerges,
was very unhappy there because his
lather was a man of violent temper.
There was only one way in which his
brother could be relieved from his
misery, he said, and hat was to kill
him.
This being resolved upon he loft the
employ OF the mayor and with 800
francs, his wages, walked to Melun,
he bought 4 revolver and a box
cartridges for 90 francs. At another
shop he purchased a butchers knife.
lie then took the train and arrived at
His brother was working
a ~neighbor's, so he had supper with
his father and awaited his brothers
When his brother came home he
asked him to accompany him on a
short walk. Alphonse consented, and, |
they were out of hearing. Bap-
4 tgtn 1tnW hi, ,ovnIrn, a,I ,ha. H.. |
him instantly. Then he cut off
the head and, after washing the severed
part in a brook, put it in his bag and
took a train for Paris.
At GAS he arrived at the Orleans sta
On the train he had made the
acquaintance of two men. with whom
he had dinner at a cafe near the sta
He had spent the evening in
about Paris and at II o'clock
had rung the bell at the gate of the st. I,
louis hospital. ,
The assassin furnished all these de- |
tails in a simple o II and with UNI
wavering voice. 1t was only when he
his dead brothers name
he showed any excitement. Then
eyes protruded from their sockets
and he declared that to kill his broth
er was the only thing that remained,
he was so unhappy. He ex-
claimed:
1T was my duty to get him away
from my father and | obeyed the Most
who ordered me to perform the
task. | loved him very much
The commissaire of police sent the
head to the morgue and informed the
authorities of Senezergues, who found
the trunk of the unfortunate Alphonse
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