Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — A Revolting Murder. [ARTICLE]

A Revolting Murder.

The court of Aix, in France, has recently finished a most revolting trial. Vitalis and Marie Boyer were accused of having assassinated and cut in pieces the Widow Boyer, the mother of the female prisoner, who objected to her daughter marrying the male prisoner. Vitalis determined to get rid of the old woman, and so fell upon her with a knife. During the severe struggle which took place, the assassin called out to Marie, who remained in the adjoining room, “ Quick, get me the gruyere knife ; she has caught hold of mine and is cutting my lingers.” And Marie brought the knife, but turned away her head so as not to see her mother, who was lying half dead in the grasp of her murderer. When the crime was accomplished Vitalis took the body into the cellar and cut it up, Marie keeping guard at the top of the stairs. At one moment she cried out, “Where are you n6w?” “At the second arm,” replied Vitalis. The trial was replete with horrors like this. Vitalis has been condemned to death, and Marie Boyer to hard labor for life. The pottery production of Akroi), Ohio, is 4,000,(MX) gallons a year. '’ *"