The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
Upon Arrest the Fiend CoOlly Confesses and Pleads Want
 as His Only Excuse.
ATTEMPT TO LYNCH HIM.
Maddened by tho Deed of the Mon
 -.ster Mob Tries to Mete out Swift Vengeance.
Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett

PARIS. April'2.-All the crimes of the week sink into insignificance beside crime which in atrocity recalls to mind the historic cause celebre of Tropmann. In a small village in Normandy, a short distance from the fashionable summe rresort of Trouville, the fore man of a sugar factory named Le Blond has been murdered, together with his mother his wife and three children. This six-fold crime was com- mitted by a man named Caillard, aged 33. who formerly worked in the district. Having stolen two, guns, a carblne, and three revolvers, he got into Le Blond's garden, armed with an arsenal of wea- pons. and firing through the glass door at Le Blond and his wife, who were reading a paper in the kitchen. he kill ed both instantly. Two small boys, z and years old, alarmed by the report, came down stairs, and the wretch shot both down.
 Then he entered the house and calmly sat down to eat and drink. While he was so engaged a little girl of came in He cut her throat and then ran sacked the house. When he reached the last bedroom he found Le Blond's mother-in-laW in bed and he killed her with a revolver ball in the head. Hav- ing collected everything of value he could find, he stored his booty in a portmanteau and started for the rail- way station, where he booked for a neighboring town. He was arrested the next morning, and when the wretch had made a full confession and related all the details with revolting cyniciSm and had been taken to the scene of the murder. according to the French cus- f,h hs.n fro tod Nx-ir 10 hndiaC n his victims, the fury of the crowd was such that the gendarmes had the great est difficulty in preventing them from lynehing him then and there. Caillard did not even make. any excuse for the Gct beyond that of want. He suffers from phthisis and is out of work. His daughter, with whom he lived, has also been arrested. Caillard is believed to be the perpetrator of several undiScov- cred crimes. He has already been be- fore the AssiZe Court on a charge of murder, but was discharged in the ab- Sence of proof.
 Side by side with the mourning in high places is announced the grand aristocratic marriage of Count Jean de CaStellane, younger son of Marquis de CaStellane, with the Princess de Furst- enberg, widow of Prince Charles de Furstenberg. and daughter of the Duke of Talleyrand, who has just died. The succession of the father has not yet been settled, butt it is believed that Comte Hele de Perigord, eldest son of Prince de Sagan, will, with the assent of the German Emperor, assume the title; and succeed to the estate of the . dukedom. of Sagan.
 Verdi, who was engaged in Paris to Q conduct the '"Stabat Mater" at the sacred concerts in holy week, is still very i'll at Genoa and his place will be filled by. his colleague Boito
 The President of the republic, like many. others. has paid a tribute to the inclemency of the weather. He has just had an attack of influenza for which his physician has ordered him a fort nights rest in the south. Felix Faure i Is going to spend the time at Cimiez, near. Nice. where he will be a neighbor of Queen Victoria. His apartments have already been taken and six horses were ! sent off yesterday for his Easter holi- days, which our President, whose great activity is notorious, has well earned If the President had not wanted to take his own horses he might have had a splendid bargain at Nice, where the sale of the Princess Louise of Saxe- Coburg of magnificent Hungarian horses has just taken place. All the Princess ser wants have been discharged and if the : dispatch from Buda Pesth is to be be- lieved, King Leopold's daughter is now in Croaia- at the castle of Lieutenant Kegloyitz, where she is awaiting pre- liminary steps in the divorce case to which | have already referred