Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — BRUTE IN UNIFORM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRUTE IN UNIFORM.

French Army Officer Charged With Barbarous Murder.

Here is a pioture of Captain Voulet, the French army officer who is at present an outlaw in the Sudan and

whose little band of murderers is being hunted down like so many wild beasts. Captain Voulet was an officer who had gained some distinction in the French Sudan when he was sent with Captain Chanoine on a special mission into the interior. "This was last January. Early In the spring the French war department heard news of barbarous acts of cruelty committed by these captains. An expedition was sent out to call them back. Lieutenant Colonel Klobb and a lieutenant. sent to relieve the accused

men, were shot down by the culprits, who then escaped into the wilderness. A large column has been sent to search for them. The crimes charged to these officers are almost inconceivable. They began their work of barbarity by beheading a native who declared he did not know a road about which lie was being questioned. Subsequently, it is declared, Voulet captured 80 natives, of whom he killed 20 of the women and children, ■hot a soldier for wasting ammunition and burned a village of 10,000 inhabitants. Chanoine, It is added, shot two of his men without trial for not pursuing a native who had wounded a soldier. He also 'burqpd a village and. having lost six men iu an engagement, rushed a village and captured 20 of the inhabitants, of which number he killed 10, ■placing their heads on i>oles. Not So Remarkable. “She says her husband is awfully obliging. He’ll eat almost anything that’s set before him.” “Dear me. she couldn’t expect him to eat it If ’twas set behind him, could she?”—Philadelphia Bulletin.

CAPTAIN VOULET.