Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — A French Horror. [ARTICLE]

A French Horror.

Louis Michot, a resident of a Paris suburb, had for some time been subject to fits of epilepsy which finally terminated in insanity*; but with fatal tenderness his wife concealed his condition as much as possiblft, instead of placing him in an asylum. She was destined to be his first victim. The other daty he quitted his work abruptly, saying that he had something to do at home. On reaching his house he seized the cat and tore it to pieces. Armed with a crois-sant,-or huge scythe, used in cutting down trees, he next attacked his wife, and soon left her a bleeding corpse on the ground. He then started out on an expedition of murder. His next victim was a poor old beggar woman, named Fraiey, whom he decapitated with a sinfle blow. The Abbe Richer, cure of St. laurice, was on his way home from visiting a sick man, when he was met by the madman, who split his head with the terrible weapon. He next attacked a familyj)#med Tonielier, cut off the head of the wife, and hacked the husband literally into pieces. Then he directed his steps to the dwelling Of a peasant named Tnierry, who barricaded himself in his house, so trfe madman turned his attention to the children of Thieriy, who were tending cows at a little distance. The unhappy father flew to their assistance, but too late to save his oldest son, a boy nine years of age. The nextvictim of the fiend’s fury was a man named Tellier. Finally the wretched creature was seized and secured, after having destroyed seven lives. —* ' —The best material for kites is flypaper. *