The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-18
o get work, was pennlless anu starry

Nine. Saupier took the young tramp
in. gave her the means to wash her.
self. provided her with decent clothes
and treated her with the utmost kind
ness. The wretched outcast was soon
transformed into a rosy faced, hand
some. cheerful young woman. She
won her way into the hearts of the old
people by her handiness and diligence,
and it was soon understood that she
was to stay and receive wages as q
domestic. Jacques began before long
to cast his eyes on Marie, and, as she
was we'll behaved and Industrious, his
parents offered no objections In Sep
tember of the same year, jacques and
Marie were married and continued to
live at the homestead.
Within a month Of the wedding, Ma
rie showed her husband letter, which
she said was from her brother, an
nouncing his arrival at Cherbourg
"Oh, how should like to see him"
she exclaimed. st is years since I
last saw him.
"Ask him to pay us a visit" the hus-
band said, and so in short time
dark skinned fairly good looking
young man arrived, whom Marie intro
duced as her brother, Louis Rozan.
Marie embraced him affectionately,
and for week or more they were con-
stantly together, Nine. Saupier reliev-
ing her daughter-in-law from much Of
the household work to enable her to
stroll around with her brother. at the
end Of ten days Louis left, saying that
he must return to his ship. On Dec.
Marie received letter from him, say
ing that his ship was ordered on a long
cruise and that he intended to visit her
once more before he sailed. On Dec.
Is. jacques informed his wife that
man in sailor garb had met him and
told him that Louis had met with an
accident and was detained at Morlaix
and wanted his sister to come and
nurse him. Marie said that she was
not we'll enough to undertake the task,
and urged her husband to go and do
what he could to help her brother. He
readily consented and started for the
train at AIorlaiX the same evening.
The next morning. Dec. 16, some Ia
borers passing the Saupier homestead
were surprised to find the place closed
and no one about. as usual Looking
around, they saw the hand Of a woman
waving at an open window. The men
entered the garden and found the front
door open. They went in and heard
groans proceeding from a room up
stairs. Ascending, they entered the
apartment from which the groans pro-
ceeded and found Marie lying on bed
close to the window. She was gagged,
and her feet and left arm were bound
ito the bed. The right arm she had ap-
parently got partially at liberty. The
men released her, and she exclaimed:
"They've murdered NJ. Saupier and
his wife!'
Then she went off in q faint. The
laborers found in an adjoining room
Saupier and his wife lying on the bed,
ruthlessly hacked to pieces, the az
which had done the foul deed lying on
the floor While they were gazing on
the dreadful scene Marie entered and
in q frenzied manner asked:
"Haye they murdered my brother
too?"
Marie accompanied the men while
they searched around The strong box
in which the old man kept consider
able sum Of money was open, the key
being in the lock. Everything Of value
was gone. While the search was going
on knocking was heard, proceeding, as
it was found, from the stable.
"Oh, that must be my brother!' Ma
rie said. 1.-THE murderers must have
locked him in the stable"
The stable was found locked, but Ma
rie discovered the key lying on the
ground few feet away. The door
was opened, and young nan appear
ed, whom Marie embraced with much
effusion, saying:
'Oh, my dear brother, was afraid
they had killed you too!'
II heard you scream" he said, land
ran up stairs. was sleeping on the
couch in the kitchen, you know. When
I reached your room, saw two men
gagging you, and one Of them with a
pistol in his hand seized me, forced me
down stairs and into the stable anil
locked me in."
EYES," Marie said, 81 was awakened
by noise in the bedroom occupied by
NJ. Saupicr and his wife, and as was
in the act Of getting up to see what
was the matter two men entered and
seized, gagged and bound me. recog-
nized one Of the men as my husband
by his voice heard him say:
"I'ye settled the old folks, and that's
all care for
"'I'm sure it was Jacques Louis
added, for in the struggle tore off
the tail Of his coat, and here it is
The story told by Jacques Saupier on
the trial of Marie presented q very
different condition cf things. Jacques
swore that when he got about half way
to Morlaix, which took him some time,
as the night was stormy and the roads
were bad, he found that he had lost
through a hole in his pocket all the
money he started with, except a few
sous. This fact and the increasing Sc
yerity Of the storm induced him to
turn back, and it must have been II
o'clock when he reached the home
stead. TO his surprise, he found the
t.r1f in In f.it