Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-12-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATROCIOUS MURDER IN PARIS.  SAWING A MAN UP FOR PIGS' FOOD.  A horrible murder case came on for trial on I Monday before the Assizes at Privima in the De- I pautinent of Ardi,che. The prisoners were only ! two in number—namely, Joan Faire and Marie Plancher, his who—their accomplice. Jacques Plancher, brother of the woman, and who was formerly a policeman in Paris, having lately coinmitted suicide in prison. Toese people lived ate plaoe called Barnes, and by a curious coincidence they are descendants of the landlord of , the Auberge des Tueurs, a terrible inn which existed about fiity years ago. In this diabolical hostelry travellers were frequently ' murdered, as in the notorious inn described by Dumas in "Monte Christo." Jean Faure, a man fifty-seven years old, was a smail farmer in the district- With him lived his brother Claude, an older man, who bed amassed a small sum of money. In July last Claude Faure suddenly disappeared from the scone, to the surprise of the country folk in the neighbourhood. Suspicion soon fastened on the former and his wife, who were in too great a harry to take possession of the little property loft by their brother. The gendarmes werit to the house at Barnes, where they found the door of Claude's room open, and, looking out of a window, they saw the woman hiding the keys ander a stone. , Making ses.rches around the neighbourhood, they dug up item a small plot of potatoes some human remains in a state of decomposition. A few days after portions of a mans skull, upper jaw, and abdomen were found in the crevices of a lofty rock, situated at some distauce from Barnes. These iragmeata ware picked out of what scorned to be a beep ot palverised human bones and debris. The suspected persons were arras ted.an d strenuously dented their guilt; but owing to the accumulation of proof against them they gave in. Jean Fatty) and the ex-policeman Plaucher, his brother-in-law, said that on the night oi the murder they waited for Claude to leave the kitchen and come out into the yard, which he had to cross in order to go up to hie room. The woman Fear* gave her husband • crowbar, with which he smote the victim on toe skull and stretched him dead. They removed the body to a stable, where Jean cut it up with a hatchet, a saw, and a kni.e. His wife collected the portions together, boiled them in a pot, and gave them to the pigs. The animals gorged themselves with the human remains uutii they turned away in disgust from the trough. What they left was buried in the . dunghill whence the police withdrew it. On the its,me evening the woman made the family soup in the pot used for the awtal pup we deecribed, and did so without even having cleansed it from the ghastly grease which clung to its sides. I The hearing or this horrible CANS drew a large crowd to the count house on Monday morning. The woman k ante had to be supported by the gendarmes, as she isgtljl suffertug from the effects of an attempt to commit suicide by throwing herself over the prison stairs. Jean Faure, in reply to the judge, said that he slew hia brother, after having been made drank by his wife and Plancher. The woman refused to ary scything. and murmured now said then, "It is not tree," as the dying depositions of the ex-policeman Planchet was read out in court.  As safe, permanent, and warranted cure tor Pimples, Scrofula, Scurvy, lied Lem. Skin and kuood Diseases, and Seem ot all kinds. we sea with confidence rikommenil Ciraus's Wottua-rmanui