The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-26

lily in bravado and partly, no doubt,
trusting to his rank and power and the
laws probable failure to make proof
| against him, gave orders to raise the
lportcullis and open the gates and sub
mitted himself to arrest, Upon search
being made from top to bottom of the
fortress, mass of children's clothing
stained with blood and a pile of half
burned human bones were discovered in
| the nloat; while subsequently over a
I, ton of childrens bones was found in
| cellars and other hiding places. In the
midst of maledictions and cries of hor-
ror GILES was taken to the chateau Of
| Nantes and five days later brought be-
| fore the bishop. A month later he WITS
| brought to the bar as criminal in pub
| lie trial and required to plead. He re-
fused to plead, insulted the judges, ac-
cused them of simony and maintained
that they We're all his personal enemies,
and when questions were put to him,
stood mute Then the bishop and the
vice-inQuisitor of the ecclesiastical
court declared him contumacious and
pronounced sentence of eXcommunica-
| ton upon him. Next day he was again
aIraigned. Whether or no he had in the
meantime been put to the question =
| that is, tortured-is not known, but he
announced that he was prepared To
make full confession. He was allowed
| respite of twenty-four hours to pre-
| pare his statement, and on the day fol-
lowing the full court was assembled.
| From all the country around the peas
ants bad hocked to get a glimpse Of the
| ravaging wild beast, at the mere Whis-
| per of whose name before his capture,
every door was closed. In the body Of
| the hall was a pressing, eXasperated
throng of bereaved parents and friends,
who filled the court with cries against
the perpetrator of the crimes by which
they had lost their loved ones. Bishops,
clad in full canonicals, with golden mi
tres and collars and chains of gold and
precious stones, sat on the first tier Of
benches; beneath them were the secu-
lar judges, clad in scarlet, black and
white, while from the highest seat be-
meath the crucifix Jean de Malestrot
looked down upon the court. Loaded
with chains and in charge Of an escort
of armed soldiers, GILES was brought in
He was haggard, unkempt and had
aged twenty years in single night.
At 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 Prelati
could make gold, whether by science, by
magic, by the Intervention of the devil,
or of all these means combined. In
laboratory which he had Installed in the
highest tower of his chateau of Tiff
fauges he had attempted the transmit
tation of metals into gold. He distilled
into retorts different liquids destined to
dissolve the mineral substances after
certain formulas of magic, repeated in
the invocation Of demons. Prelati had
declared that to make these operations
hearts, hands or eyes, but above ALL
the blood of young children. The blood
was to be used in tracing the magic cir
Giles and figures, To furnish victims
for these lamentations he had abducted
children, choosing the little peasants,
who would not be missed. or whose pa
rents, from poverty, would not be likely
to pursue the search Mechanically,
one by one, he recounted the deaths Of
his victims, describing their last ago.
MES, their cries for mercy and their
dying struggles. Having begun by
committing these murders for the devil,
a raging lust of cruelty 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 accomplices would
Shrek with laughter at the writing
victims, and described his tearing the
heart still palptating from dead |
chld's breast, with other unimaginable |
horrors
AT last the hdeous recital came to an |
end There was moment of silence |
and then the terrible Baron fell UP IN |
his knees in terror ana asked the pardon
and pity of Almighty God for his mis-
Deeds Turning to the people and weep
ing, he cried; "Oh, you, the parents of |
those whom l have so cruelty put to |
death. grant me the succor of your
pious prayers" Whereupon occurred |
one of those strange revulsions of eel |
ing only possible perhaps in that fam
tastic age. The Judge, laying aside for
the moment his judicial functions. and
becoming once more the priest, stepped |
down from the dais and, weeping, en-
braced the repentant sinner, while tie
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 i
his execution an altar was erected In
his memory and to his name. He was
then less than forty years old. Strange
y enough, this altar came, In after
years, to be called the altar Of the
'B9nne Vidrge de Greco ait," and was
by the superstitious esteemed as a place
If value in furnishing milk to nursing
mothers. Within sixty-two years Of his
death his family became extinct. A
fairy tale for children has preserved
he memory of a monster whose mental
alterations all the elaborate and quasi
scientific modern theories of a Lombro-
80 or a Kraft Ebing are powerless to
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