The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-16

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cepted a certain sum. which he considered
too small. for their COW. His defense was
that he had only acted as the agent of some
bearded gentlemen" and he stuck to these
bearded gentlemen to the end. just did
Pranzini the dark little man" whom he
accused of the triple murder in the Rue
Montaigne.
Dumollard used TO operate i'm the Lyons
district. at Lyons. first, and then at Mont
luel. Neuville, Mexmieux and Bourg. He
was convicted of three murders and nine at
tempts al murder. that is to say, the jury
at the assizes held at Bourg declared his
life forfeit twelve times. for you are to re-
member that in France attempted murder
is capital offense l have seen men guilo-
tined for it. How many times. in fact, his
life was forfeit to law Dumollard himself,
and possibly the ''beared gentlemen" also.
alone could have declared
He was a hideous man with struggling
hair and a ragged beard, and dressed like
poor peasant in a patched blouse and
clogs. Yet when he introduced himself TO
his intended victims the gardener and
steward of a rich country gentleman resd-
ing in fine mansion near TrevouX, he was
usually believed and followed. His method
was to hang about the registry offices in the
various towns which l have named, and TO
accost any likely-looking girl who might be
on her way to inquire after situation.
a NARROW ESCAPE.
Il had come to Lyons with my trunk"
related the girl whose story of her escape
brought about his arrest. "in search of a
place. and as I was crossing the bridge
my way TO the registry office. / was ac-
costed by a countryman, who spoke TO me
very nicely and asked me if / knew of a
good maid of all work. His master, he said
| a big landowner near TrevouX, had sent
him to town TO find such a girl, who was
wanted at once. The work light. the
situation was an easy one, and the wages
offered were double what i had intended to
ask. j said, DO you think I'd do? He said,
| yes. that he liked the looks of me, but, if
wanted the situation L must come at once
| / agreed, and he went with me to fetch my
! trunk. We went some distance by train,
| and he was very pleasant and told me what
| a good place / was going To. After we had
! left the train he shouldered my box com
| planning it was very heavy. AS he shifted it
there was a rafting inside. That sounds
| like money he said Yes. L said, L have
| some savings in little box Oh, then it's
| all right he said. We walked-uphill all
the way-a long while. AS night came on he
struck off into some fields a short cut he
said. We went on, the place getting more
and more desolate, for more than an hour.
| At last he said, L can't carry this trunk
| any further. I'll leave it here and fetch it
tomorrow And so saying he pushed ii into
| a ditch. L beginning to get frightened
| and asked him if it was still far. He only
muttered in response. and fell back behind
| me. After had walked on few PAGES, L
| turned round, and by the moonlight saw
him trying to pull up heavy vine stake
! He stopped doing so when he saw that L
4 watching him and hurried forward.
| Now terrified, / sprang forward, and as L
| did so .he threw lasso at me which missed
my head. Then 1 gave a scream and ran
! and ran. / could hear his heavy clogs
pounding behind me. He was muttering
| curses all the while. L ran for my life. fell,
L scrambled up again. jumped bitches and
| forced myself through hedges. At last / got
out on a road, and seeing light tore tow
| ards it in frantic haste, flung myself into
| the cottage, and bleeding all over cried,
| Save me-murder,' and tainted" The
| suit of this girls story was that Dumol
lard was hunted for by the police and event
| ually arrested in hovel in the forest. Here
| he lived with his wife, and here in a cache
| was found an immense quantity of such
| poor apparel peasant girls take to serv-
| ice, few trinkets and other articles of
| very small value. 1t was mainly owing to
| the wifes confession that the bodies of his
| various victims were found where he had
| buried them in lonely places in the woods.
| When he heard that his wife had betrayed
him, he said, Now really never thought
she would make things disagreeable for
me-" The whole value of his plunder can
only have been a few pounds
THREE AWFUL MURDERS.
The story Of the eight murders committed
| by Troppman, who exterminated the whole
| Kinck family, is too well known to be de-
scrbed here, but where multiple massacres
are in question a reference to his sinister
name cannot be omitted. 1t is curious fact
| that nine out of ten Frenchmen believe that
| he never existed and that the whole story
was invented by the newspapers at the or
| der of the government TO take public atten-
| ton away from political matters good
| many people, by the way, believe the same
to-day about faffaire Humbert The ac-
| count of his execution is one of the most
striking books which Tourgenieff ever
| wrote.
One would like to have the pleasure of
reading similar book with the man Jud
for its hero. Jud had speciality of murder
ing people in trains. His first crime was
committed in 1860, when he murdered a
judge named Poinsot in first-class car
riage. Many mysterious railway murders
have since been attributed to him, down TO
that of NJ Barreme, prefect of the Eure
department, which was committed in 1886.
But he always managed to keep out of the
hands of the police.
Avinain, the butcher, who used to entice
farmers into lonely shed on the banks of
the Seine and murder them, may close this
| article. He immortaized his name amongst
the criminal classes, and, indeed. amongst
the general public by his dying speech on
the scaffold. Gentlemen" he said, never
confess
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large ledger was carried about and received
the receipts of the members OF Congress
for their pay and mileage. Instead of re-
a