Evening journal., 1904-06-30
GRIMES IN OLD INNS.
OLD WORLD OUT OF THE WAY TRAPS
FOR uNwARY TRAVELLERS.

and Worse Awaited rnc Victims
From worldwide traveller come
these Stories Of evil ruins abroad. Of
dark nights. evil companions and lone
lsness. He says:
Il sometimes think OF night
spent in an inn on the Spanish from
tior, in a little seaside village surround
ed by n thick pine forest. I was ac-
commodated with bed IN a large
room In which another traveller was
lying. He was talkatiye. as most
southern Frenchmcn are, and curious
as to my business. circumstances and
future movements. I told him a story
OF my financial troubles which seemed
to me to have saved my life. He was
restless during the night and kept go
irg 20 the window ! could not so TO
slccp while he was moving about
an the end we both fell asleep. He
had given INC his name, a name with
which a year or two later the whole of
France WIS ringing. lie was tried for
a double murder, perpetratcd under cir
cnmstanccs Of peculiar atroclty. and
with such motive Of petty robbery
that the opinion was he must have
had long familiarity with crime. The
murder for which he was convicted
was carried out to gain possession OF
fa0. ANA people believed none bat O
hardened criminal would nerve himself
TO murder for gain so paliry
inn. where my disappearance would
have aroused neither curiosity nor
suspicion. low he would have dis
posed Of ne ! could imagine from the
crime for which he was convicted. Ho
Travelled with q large trunk. l some.
times think It was the one afterward
seized at the cloakroom Of station
on the Chorbourg line containing tho
body of bis latest victim ! think all
that saved me from scpulture within
it was the cunning With which had
concealed the fact ! was in possession
that night of considerable sum.
1T was with similar cunning that
my brother and myself avoided a like
danger az Rotterdam. We were lads
Of ten and twelve respectively, on oui
way home 70 England from our school
in Wicsbnden AS the ship did not
start until the day following our ar
rival. we had been Obliged TO pass tho
night in Rotterdam A loafer conduct
cd MS TO a miserable tavern In a slun
on the nompjos. where we paid for tho
best room.
"As the time for retiring came oui
viliainous looking landlord conducted
rs to dark closet and told us tt
elcop there We have fallen into O
trap. enid TO my brother, and so 3
seemed when later we beard a steaths
step on The staircase Then we begal
to talk in German. and the aist of on
conversation was. What would becom'
Of us the next day II the money cx
pccicd from our parents did not arrive
We c0lorcd the story of distress, nn'
probably our being nwake saved as IN
stead CT the iale overheard. We henr
the stop roireatlng, and. remamln
awake till morning, we were not nc
Tested.
prom what / have since heard o
this class OF house IN Rotterdam am
Amsterdam / have no doubt that "
had q narrow escape
France. too. is dotted with house
whore murder and theft lurk behin
the mask OF treachcry. In the forcs
OF Chatcnay. three miles from Macol
you may see the ruins of a church cor
secrated 10 ST. John "Not far froi
this" writes Hooul Giabcrt "a scoui
drcl had built a house for the accom-
modntion Of travellers. In this hons
he murdered an who came 70 Lodge
The monster used the flesh Of his vi'
Tins for nourishment.
- man came thore with his wife M
asked shelter Having rested his wifi
prying into closet discovered hea
Of hnman remains. AZ This the tra'
cicrs grew pale and made for the roa,
The innkeepor tried 70 stop them. On
terror lent speed. so they were able
escape 70 the town. where they inform
ed Prince Othon Of the discovery.
grcat number Of mon set out the MOI
sfcr was found In his den. and no les
than. for;y-eiqht human heads were di
covered. remains Of travellers whom
lltll Nult'ltl tAN N'NNii'Ns ilN vi
dragged back TO town. tied TO a hea
in a cellar and burned 10 death.
Il myself" says Glabert. was pre-
ent at his execution
From other chronicles of this pcri'
cannibalisa seems TO have been look
upon hy iunAcepers as prerequisite
their profession This story IS i'm
way more horrible than Hamilt'
Aides fiction. for IN his evil inn on
the teeth and hair OF the victims we
coveted by the two sisters of Cologne
The French inn Of most sinister rep
tation is still standing IN q mounta
pass in Auvergne This IS known
history as the AIurderers' inn. The il
is a death trap. Rooms assigned
travellers have windows 5crred wi
iron. In an outhousc ia the furna
in which bodies of victims were d
posed Of Hundreds OF lonely trav
ers. belatcd IN this inaccessible sDl
have been plundered and murdered
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