The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

I lue OdlHI hODeTt Asylum SdCnST SIarL0u
TO walk to Mention, as be says, to visit one
of his sisters. In passing through the
commune of La Vaquiere, in the depart
ment of Draguignan, he met this young
shepherdess with her flock. Next day the
| body of the poor little thing was found in
the sheep fold, lying in a pool of blood
and Stripped naked. Her neck had bee an
cut from ear to ear. From armplt to arm
| pit and from the neck across the bosom and
| stomach were two deep gashes in the form
! of cross. The chest of the unfortunate
child had been Iacerated, and other 6end-
! ish mGtilations added to the horror of the
discovery.
| Augustine Montureux, II years old-The
| body of his young shepherdess was found
May II 1895 at the side of the state road
not far from Dijon. The motive and mu-
| tilations were similar. Public rumor in
this case did not hesitate to accuse amin
nocent man, who until Vacher's confess
sion suffered almost marty yrdom.
The widow Morand, 65 years oId-This
assassination occurred on August %,
1895, in an isolated house at Saint Ours.
The same hand directed the murderous
knife.
Victor Portalier, 16 years old-The body
OF this shepherd was found in an open
field near Bonon ces with the throat cut
and showing The mutilations common to
all OF Vacher's crimes.
Pierre Massot Pellet, shepherd, IA
years old-The body, bearing the same
ripper wounds was discovered in noun
tain path near Saint Etienne-de- Bou-
logne, in the department OF Ardeche,
oeptem Der 20, 1895
Marie Mussier, 10 years old-This young
wife of a farmer of Cusset. in the depart
ment of Allier. only married a few
months, was tending her husbands cattle,
when the assassin attacked her in the
open field and left her body there horribly
mutilated.
Rozine Rodier, a farmers daughter IA
years old-Twenty-two hours after having g
committed the previous crime, on Octo-
Der l, 1885, Vacher met this little girl, who
was watching cattle for her father near Va
renne Saint Honorat, in the Haute Loire
Her mutilated remains We're found in the
field not 500 yards from the village
Pierre Laurent, a shepherd boy, IA wears
old-This boy was KILLED in field near
CouZon-la- -Giraudiere, in the enyirons of
LYONS, October 49, 1885,
The body of Eugene Delhemme. 20 wears
old. an employe of small silk mill at
Beaurepaire, was found in field not far
distant. She was another of Vacher's VIC
Tins. Her father became insane from
grief. Three young men, against whom
suspicion was uniustly directed. suffered
long imprisonment for the crime and
were not fully exonerated until Vacher
made his confession. He spent the dav
following the butchery in the cafes of
Beaurepaire listening with malign delight
to the surmises and speculations OF the
people as to the identity OF the assassin.
On the 1st of March, 1S96-and this was
a plain clew-a traveller who had spent
the previous night at farm in Beauce.
and there exhibited his military passport
as Joseph Vacher, formerly sergeant of
the Sixtieth Regiment OF the line, met in
the forest OF Pescheseul a little girl
of IA years named Derouet, a domestic in
the household of NJ. Booe, Keeper of the
estate of the Marquise LentiiIac. When
he pounced on the little one, knife in
hand, she screamed for succor, knowing
that her master was near at hand in the
woods. The keeper rushed out upon the
path. and the foied assassin fed. after
having inflicted only slight wound on
the child. He denied at first that he was
the Vacher of the affair." but remem bereu
that he was when accused by Bobe and