The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-31

in the moat. while subsequently over "A
ton of children's bones was found in eel
lars and other hiding places. In the midst
oil maledctiOns ana cries OF horror GILES
was taken 90 the chateau of NAMES aud
hve days later brought before the Bishop.
\ month later he was brought to the bar
as criminal in public trial and required
to plead. lie refused TO plead nsulted
the judges, accused them of smony ana
main tained that they were all his person
al enemies, and when question were put to
him. stood mute. Then the Bishop ana
the vice-nquisitor of the ecclesiastical
court declared him contumacious and pro-
nounced sentence of communication up
ON him. Next day he was again arraign-
ed Whether or no he had in the mean
time been put 10 the question that IL,
tortured-is not known, but he announced
that he was prepared TO make full con-
fession. lie was allowed a respite of
twenty-four hours 20 prepare his state
ment, and on the day following the full
court was assembled.
From all the country around the peas
ants had flocNed 10 get glimpse of the
ravaging wild beast at the mere whisper
of whose name, before his capture, every
door was closed In the body of the hall
was a pressing, exasperated throug of be-
reaved parents and friends. who filed the
court with cries against the perpetrator
of the crimes by which they had lost their
loved ones. Bishops, clad In full canoni-
Gals, with golden mitres and collars and
chains Of gold and precious stones, sat on
the first tier OF benches; beneath them
were the secular judges, clad in scarlet,
black and white, while from the highest
seat. beneath the cruciix, Jean de Male
stroll looked down upon the court. Load
ed with chains, and In charge OF an es-
cort of armed soldiers, GILES was brought
in. lie was haggard, unkempt and had
| aged twenty years I'm q single night. Al a
signal from the presiding judge he began
his horrible confession. The lust for
wealth had led him to commit his awful
crimes. He believed that Prean could
make gold. whether by science, by mag
ic, by the Intervention of the devil, or
of all these means combined In a labor
atory which he had installed I'm the high
est tower of his chateau Of Tinauges he
had attempted the transmutation of met
ais into gold He distilled into retorts diff
ferent liquids destined 10 dissolve the MIN
oral substances after certain formulas Of
magic repeated in the invocation Of de-
mons. Prelat had declared that 20 make
these operations successful required the
addition of the hearts, hands or eyes. but,
above all. the blood OF young children
The blood was 10 he used in tracing the
magic circles and figures TO furnish vic
Tins for these incantations he had alb
Quoted children. choosing the little peas
ants VINO WDulu not De missed or whose
parents, from poverty, would not be likely
TO pursue the search. Mechanically, one
by one he recounted the deaths Of his VIC
Tins, describing their last agonies, their
cries for mercy and their dying struggles
Having begun by committing these muir
ders for the devil, raging lust OF cru
city had seized upon him, and he came
at last to revel in his butcheries. They
became for him a CHASTITY pastime, a farce
He told of how he and his accomplces
would shrek with laughter at the writing
victims, and described his tearing the
heart still palpitating from a dead ehild's
breast, with other unlma ginable horrors
At last the hldeous recital came 10 an
end. There was moment of silence and
then the terrible Baron fell upon his knees
in terror and asked the pardon and pity
OF Almighty God for his misdeeds Turn
ing TO the people and weeping. he cried:
"Oh, you, the parents OF those whom I
have so cruelty put 10 death, grant me the
succor Of your pious prayers" Where
upon occurred one of those strange reyul-
sions of feeling only possible. perhaps In
that fantastic age The Judge laying
aside for a moment his judicial functions,
and becoming once more the priest step
ped down from the dais and weeping, en-
braccd the repentant sinner while the
whole assembly fell upon It's knees and
prayed for the assassin.
He and his accOmplces were publicly
hanged and burned and at the place Of
his execution an altar was erected in his
memory ana to his name. He was then
less than 40 years old. Strangely enough
this altar came in after years, 20 be called
the altar Of the 'Bonne Verge de Cree
Lait." and was by the supersttious es-
teemed as a place of value in furnishing
milk to nursing mothers. Within sixty
two years of his death his family became
extinct. fairy tale for children has
preserved the memory Of a monster whose
mental alterations all the elaborate and
quasi-seientifc modern theories Of Lom-
broso or a Krafft-Ebng are poweriess to
explain.