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!FtMUS TRIALS. I >TT^?AV0I'NEj F0S' THE Noseless mxjrber OF j TWO CHILDREN. |82^ Sinday morning, tlxe 10th of October, bomai1 naJnec^ Papavoine killed two] xiil thp^' .^others—"babes in the wood" tfa fcsencs °f their mother, as they ^eennZln^ 011 t'le grass in the Bois de 1^8 wn People's Park, of Paris. The Scatv^ not onv. remarkable for its cool' i%ont ^rora having been perpetrated-] isS £ y motive, and by a man a total his SA ^18 victims, in full possession1 and possessed of no sanguinary! •«.' 6 er inherited or acquired. Papa- \jy ;iiS,J)orn ii 1783, in the village of i.% ,5 department of the Enre. lie Si Si* 4 for the navy, and received a ^ts t f liberal education. When twenty ■^ed i°ined ship, aid %ed ,ce to several others, being ern- Ih'W 1° C an§ aQd book-keeping. After jViatef ruSe ^ie ran^ °f quarter master. Pirfm i 16 was attached to the accountant's lS%ra] 1 the Brest Arsenal. In his aKT4.C^i0ns ^>apavoine acquitted himself Her w1 reSu^arity, and probity. His. in IM:" arB?y cloth manufacturer, who >3Mition + le.avitlS ^is business in a chaotic iMtgy bis widow and only son. The A DPnt-Ue^ ^rom ^-e naw, and, claiming iSedt -i it was fixed at 360£. Me ie- '^lls i,,0). 0ll7' intending to conduct the !^6 P"iv'i 1 declined to renew contract. This was next to "'retted ° 1 ,f^ea^1 ^or Papavoine. He re- arml- 1jVmS quitted the naval service. [Hoeg T^*lec^ to be taken back, but his ser- '^eotejTf ^^hied. These circumstances "frag USj .^lea^h physically and morally, •■avised by some friends to under- go, ari^ lfr. travelling for a change. He did ^h«r« lipVliSlJ £ &d several friends at Baauvais, Wi ije lLad commercial relations. Hardly arpived, when his mother forwarded "114,bci.)ntracts that had been sent b I 7* com; "a3 War Office. This necessitated to ^>iir-'s -to comply with certain k^ived j68", borrowed some money, ^led (J1 *'Ue capital on the 6th of October, 'to fit?1110' clients to indicate to him r^Ps + 518 documents and the 1 %lv • 0 He remained a, few day. rT%8 j;1 hotel, till Sunday, the 10th k °f the crime—when, feeling a- i• httle change a-nd a walk iu the (t>, ^ter- a light dejeuner, strolled 8 wood of Yincenn.es. In appear- eH4er ',a^)irie looked respectable: he was u- ail' very pale, and dressed with Q.' care. On the present occasion he hafc ^rock coat, buttoned to the chin; hv^&d ?v^ very deep crape, a-nd was the fashion of the time, chestriru>Us buckle. His hair was thin f a eXi)r co*our> as w6re whiskers. ^etv was vague and veiled with r t ]; VlofcS \Ve nian.y visitors to the park was w:iv r^n' aged 25, a lace maker, 3er was ^ler ^aT11^y in the city. Her s 6 led + a in a Government office. 8 r»a ttle boys—aged five and six at ?,ectively—'by the hand. She had ? krin(, school where they were boarding L*tood t]ilen ollt f°r a walk, to pass m »a* j1*3 da7 with her, and play with //?8 aSj *ier weekly custom. She was (f-^ lftai-ri v}° ^le two children, but she was • Her seducer was a carriage J ijrnSSpf0!1' w^-om hLs father had exiled n^.the oi ^kreak the liaison, while aJlow- ^rl 30f. per month, in addition to "^din, (t"'e rearing of the children in a r rivi- <'ae of a-nd granting her the pnvi- %fantsS1Q^ every Sundav with them. As >. 1|,v'6re .Playing on the grass a young .lire aPpening to pass by, stopped to I. ao bandisc)ipe children; she a<;L em and tlieir mother, and in at 0_ ed permission to kiss them, which 8 foj> granted. She herself was wait- 'K'4 Path-) r er to oome to the rendezvous! ^y- The tall man in close- i, 'When tf coat> had observed this scene, young woman lmd resumed i^Ppoa.clwi i er unbracing the children, he ;^e two and asked, "Do you know reoi;j'e you have just embraced?" ?/8ry we]i ^har tsirtly, that one can *^°wUj» ii prettv children without f,l"0cer'sb Then she proceeded to a :t '^°P ■ chattered with the woman/ ■■ffl retiu-j/ i took a liqueur glass of cordial, ''Sr VA? the park to await the arrival ft/^t er. The gentleman in the blue v"4 'Ovv-ri eiltjei'ed tlie shop, and asked to 4aillan „ a tnife he indicated. The shop f\)l'E\ that she could not sell a FOIHID'6 °Ufc ^iat bundle of twelve, ]'H ?.ne Nearly similar lying loose. (.i.?raed 1 a cormnoa dinner knife—and t:v re^ }i-ViUare the voung mother and her C' ^mov.a05?1 pla^in§- They had, how-j tK^ied t Cl0se to the wooden ball-room '• a. restaurant, as the sky .was T,A'1}' and the mother was nwdi- i(n ^ea ^er lunch for herself and ^es on « 8 ''l19 latter were building '^Diathfl u ^rass with sand carried from t V)i?^°Se by- The tall man in close- i,coat accosted the mother. He 4t«d t0 C? Pale, and his features ap- "Q- m a state of nervous oonvul- k felt a (V2°^CS- billed the mother's blood (vi ^ehpn l>1Q6sS stealing over her, and pero. )vas suddenly covered witlx a jJQ|t "Your promenade na-s ia ery long, Tnadanie," said the Z!Wer> K,,+Cro^J^n'g voice. She made no 'lify. ^Ited her little boys to corns Q^ged fi Ittan approached the youngest W '►as «Tft* struck him in the chest ?*' Witi^ ,entra,n oe of the knife to the L» y fitnlr.u parasol the mother vigo- la<jS the H man on his hat. Regard-, |jV' jEm(j attack, he approached the second' f^°r> into i^11^6^ the knife, covered with rJ-t waR 6art also. Then Papavoine, ^PWly walked away, etm, Sorefwns attracted some pro- PiHty y beheld the spectacle of ahüdiDen weltering in their blood.

LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THIS! 1 (Scene, Ireland). LORD EOSEBEEY: Ah! my dear Mr. Bull, in very justice you must reinstate these poor Irish tenants who have sacrificed all for their love of the Plan of Campaign." I 2 (Scene, England). TENANT ON THE EOSEBEBY ESTATE: My lord, we have been your tenants for mtmy years, we have paid our rent regularly, and now in our old age your agent has turned us out of home. Have pity on us, and (plIt us back! LORD EOSEBEBY It-er-was without my knowledge but I certainly can't interfere now." — r-nr i[1)iI_ _M_ t, |I|M,

"I don't care who writes the songs of a people," said Old Beads, practically. "If I can loan them money at 6 per cent, j. Willie: When a, man marries once he is a ben edIct. What is he when he marries twice ? Pa.pa: A blooming idiot. Second (to Duferlin at his first duel): I Have you any more .wishes, sir? Duferlin: Yes, sir; be careful ,o put me just as far from my opponent as he is from me. Wool: You can't always tell a tree by the bark. Van Pelt: Why not? Wool: A great many of these family trees are made up entirely of bark. Teacher: Duplumo, what is the shape (,f the earth ? Duplumo Globular, sir. I Teacher: How dQ you prove that? Duplumo: Because they sell tickets for the round trip. Mrs. Livermore: How do you like our small steaks, Mr. Treebagger? Treebagger: Very much, indeed; do you know, Ive just had one of them made into a catching glove. Jack Ford: Did you read. Dixon's letters to the girl who sued him for breach of pro- mise? He said: "Never, never can I express in weak, paltry words my love for you, my beautiful darling!" Tom Dø Wit: Well, the jury thought he l expregsed 25,000 dollars worth, anyway.

NOT TO IIE BULLIED. It was the boast of Colonel McGoffin Baios, of Kentucky, that none but a distinguished man had the hardihood to propose marriage to one of his daughters. The old man was an I aristocrat by blood and long experience, a.s afraid of no one, drank liquor gracefully, smoked home-grown tobacco, and had, while the owner of a. woodyard on Green Pviver, knocked/down more steamboat men than any other man in his State. He argued, and with justice, it must be admitted, that it was his duty to protect the afLtuo <- if In-, daughters, to guard them against m ^x.prc r>na'ion. "Bee that a. man. worthy ol i e before vou give it to him," he wa. w^nt to <ii. "Estab- lish a cause, and thereby justify an effect. There are many ways by which a man mav distinguish himself—by bravery, by.skill in certain directions-but a woman must look to marriage. There are ways for her to become i notorious, to get herself talked about, but her truest distinction must oome through her choice of a husband." Finally, all the girls save one were married off. Rose had been plucked by a man who was put off until he had snatched distinction from the tight hand of fate. And this is the story they tell of him. He had been a failure, a mere nobody, up to the time he accepted the challenge of a ringmaster to ride a trick mule. ITe had failed as a distiller—and when a man fails at that business, in Kentucky there is an organic weakness about him—he had failed as a county clerk, as a town marshal; he had owned a slow horse, a cow that was dry half the time—in faot, it was agreed that there was no hope for him. But a circus came along. He was a candidate for sherin at the time, but with no chance of success. Even his best friends guyed him. Well, he went to the circus and sat on one of the high seats, unhonoured, undiscovered. The trick mule was led out, and in due time I slammed the senses out of a livery stable Legro, Again the challenge was shouted, but tie negroes shook their heads, and it was not- ex- I peeled that anyone but a negro would come forward. The crowd was disappointed. Was there no one there with nerve enough to pspou^ the cause of t.he people? Just at this moment Shanks Boyle, the failure, arose and said that! he reckoned that lie would undertake the iob. And he rode the mule. And they say that the poor thing squatted and brayed for mercy. Boyle was elected sneriri, and then the next year was short in his accounts, but that made no difference, for I his mends, true admirers of genius, made up ,.le1 oe"Cit- Shortly after this he married Rose Bales. Tho remaining daughter was named Lilv. tone was the handsomest flower in the garden I ana no young man in the community had an excuse to fall in love with her. But not Ion" ago biere strolled into the neighbourhood a I lank, peculiar-looking fellow, who said that he was on the look-out for a chunk of a wife. This was said at Nesbitt's store, and it was said m a matter-of-fact way by the young, lank fellow, as he sat on a nail keg, spitting through his I teetn. Bill Nesbitt turned to him and re-1 marked: marked: ,"I reckon you've come to the right place. There's a girl up yonder on the hill—old Colonel Baxes's daugnter. She'd make you a monstrous fine wife." The fellow spat through his teeth, and re- marked that he was somewhat particular as to what sort of a family he married" into. "I've I been on the look-out for quite awhile," said lie. 1; 'and I ain't seed no woman vit that io'lted me much. I'm putty hard to jolt, I reckon. AL L-v orutner was once in love with a. girl, and'i lie told me that she hit him ix>werful hard but. i went with him to see her, and I sot square in front of her, but she didn't hi^ me none to speak of. "Y" £ S', I'm so blamed particular that 1 reckon that I'm going to have a. good bit of trouble in finding a woman to suit me. I reckon I must have been born that way. Don't think pap was that way, I and I know brother wasn't." "What mout be your requirements?" Bill asked. "Oh, after all, I don't reckon I'm as hard' to please as some fellows. I'm just peculiar, that's all. There's a mighty big difference in men as to what they demand of a woman, some insisting on one thing and some on another, and the strangest part of it all is that 1 don't care so much what she's like as I do about her daddy. And I have often thought that I could look at a gal and tell all about her daddy. I just nachully want the old man to be a hummer. I reckon I mut be sorter crazy on the subject." "Ain't it money you're after?" Bill asked. "No, I don't care if the old man hain't got a cent. I just want him to be different from other folks. I dpn't know why I'm that way, but I am, and I can't help Oh, I could have married lots of putty girls with monevand bosses and all that sort of tiling, and liked them well enough, unelerstand, but wouldn't marry 'em because their daddies didn't strike me right-had nothin' to dis- tinguish themselves with, so to speak. Well," he added, getting up and stretching himself, "reckon I'll go up yonder on the hill iud sor-

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and th" motller in an hysterical faint. When she was restored to oonsciousness she related what had occurred. Some ran to lock ■ p.e park gates, others to -seek tha police. Mounted members of the latter soon scoured the wood. A soldier of the Artillery and a civilian were talking together close by very calmly, and the latter observed, "What a horrible thing to murder two little children who never harmed aIlybodr-if it had only been an adult that had been assassinated i" A policeman approached, examined the civilian —a tall man, with a blue ooat--and re- quested him to come to the station-house. ''Willingly/' replied Papavoane, very calmly. But after a little his steps became faltering, so that he had to be taken by the arm by the soldier and the policeman. On the way to the station the soldier said lie did "xnot know the gentleman; he encoun- tered him running breathlessly out- of the brushwood on to the road, when he in- quired what was the nearest road out of the Bois de Vincennes, as he was in a hurry. Then he paused to arrange his dress and hair and to smooth his hat, which appeared to have received a blow. He next asked the soldier "if he looked fluttered." On arriving at the police-station Papa- I yoine was quickly identified-first of all by the mother, who, aided by some women, exclaimed, "That's the monster who killed my children Then she swooned. Next appeared! the grocer's wife: "That's the man I sold a knife to a few hours a.go 1" Strange, the knife was never found. Despite this, conclusive evidence, Papavoime denied tShfat he committed the crime, and when placed in presence of. his two little victims he at once admitted he saw them playing in the wood, but lie had nothing to do with their deaths, and the magistrate, in arresting uim, bad simply added one more to the mountain of judicial error. Excepting two butcher's knives found in his trunk at the hotel, which he purchased before coming to Paris, there was no criminating object discovered. Public opinion was not only excited, but irritated, at the unusually strange character of the prisoner. He denied everything; his con- duct would fit no theory. About five weeks after his arrest Papavoine changed his tactics he confessed he was mistaken n the little boy and "girl" whom he killed in the f Yincennes Wood. He thought they were the royal children he had slain, and whom he had intended to destroy. That, he said, was why he purchased the two knives in advance which were found in his port- manteau. No one believed this story, out it set the Royal Family in a terrible flutter, for it was less than four years previously that the Due de Berri had been assassinated, and it was his two children, better known in later years as the Comte de Cliamboid and his sister, to whom Papavoine alluded. He even promised to reveal the plot if the IDuchssse d'AngouIeme—daughter of Marie Antoinette—and the Duchesse de Berri would accord him an interview, but this was re/used. While in prison he set fire to his bed, alleg- ing that he did so "to destroy the fleas." Next he nearly killed a young fellow pri- soner by stabbing him with a table kn.f, that accidentally came in his way. The prosetcutiioin regarded these acts. a,s simu- lated madness, to extenuate his parent crimc. The latter not the less for the public remained inexplicable; no one could discover any cause or find any interest. The trial took place on February 23, 1825. From every quarter in France people flocked to witness it, as it was popularly fael.iev>d the prisoner wold make some startling reve- lations. On the table of the court the objects connected with the most remarked wer e the hat of the accused, bearing dis- tinctly the mark of the blow struck by the parasol of the frantic mother, as well as the parasol itself. Placed in the dock the appearance of the prisoner deceived the character formed of him by the public- tb.t of a depraved and vulgar criminal. On the contrary, he personified the type of a public functionary — placid, sample, correctly dressed, speaking in a subdued tone, and with a business air to his counsel. He yawned constantly, as if wearied with all the assize preparations. The public prosecutor was not at all sure of obtaining a capital conviction. PnblC opinion had been tormented by the new- ness of the type of murder, ana the jurc?s appeared to reflect that uncertainty. He examined ail the hypothesis, the possible appelared to reflect that uncertainty. He examined ail the hypothesis, the possible motives, passions, and interests. The pri- soner had no accomplices, the crime was not the consequence, of any suggestion, he was not soner had no accomplices, the crime was not the consequence, of any suggestion, he was not I an instrument of any interest. He was not a lunatic; his lucidity under examination proved that he thought, acted, and reflected er men; his antecedents revealed uu depravity of conduct, no horrible vices, 1:0 sanguinary disposition; he had no hate again-st his fellow-creatures more successful in life than himself. He may have had some mysterious secrets concealed in the depth of his heart, but justice failed to re- cover them. Further, with such conjec- tures the law had nothing to do its riuiy was to prove the crime. The prisoner avowed his guilt, and the dead bodies of his two victims corroborated him. The. cause of the crime may be uncertain, but, said the public prosecutor, there is no uncertainty about the crime itself, and. human justice exacts that society be protected. The mother's short examination was sensational. On being asked to identify the blood-steeped cbtlrng of her children and to look at the murderer she fell into a succession of hysterical shrieks, which so effected numerous ladies in the court that they had to be medically attended. After an adjournment of the court the mother was again brought in ami placed facing the judge, so as to avoid the spectacle of the clothing and the presence of the assassin. Papavoin.e was defended by a young lawyer, an intimate friend of his family, who, like the prosecution, could iind no motive for the terrible crime. He could only suppose it was perpetrated during a fit of ephemeral insanity, though madness was never known in the prisoner's family. It would be cruel, then, on the part of society to execute an irresponsible individual, ani human justice would let itself down ry guillotining t-iie insane. The jury retired to cioinsAdsr theiii verdict, and alter an hour's agitated deliberation, the majority voted Guilty," without entenuating circumstances. When re- ceiving the sentence of death Papavoine re- mained calm and self-possessed, bowed to judges and jury, and then tranquilly s^irl, "I appeal to Divine justice." He quietly shook hands with his counsel and thanked him for his brilliant defence. The prr- soner's family and a section of the Dullic, with even the secret approbation of The judges and jury, joined in a petition to the King to exercise his clemency. But the smrit of political re-action was in the ascendant, and the inner ring of the Royal family firmlv believed Papavoine was employed to murder the young heirs to the Bourbon throne. So Charles X. declined to pardon the condemned, who was executed on March 25, 1825, on the Place de l'Hotel de Yiile— on the spot, it is said, where the Marchioness de Brinvilliers had been decapitated and burned. The only concession the family obt-ainew was to receive the remains ior private interment. Although the execution took place at four o'clock in the afternoon, only a moderate crowd assembled. The bd ef had s-ainad ground that the culprit was not of sound mind, and his execution suggested that of a man unconscious of his crime, and equally so of the nature and object of his punishment.

ter look around. I may like up there, and I may not. Oan't tell. Do you suppose the old man's at home?" "Yes. And the girl's there too. "Oh, I don't care whether I see her or not. Well. I believe I'll go up and sorter prod the old feller. Meobby he'll satisfy me, and mebby he won't. Good day." < He sauntered up the hill. The old colonel wa.s standing at the gate. "How are you?" „ "Mid'lin," said the colonel. The lank fellow olaced an elbow on the fence "willoi)ped," his tobacco about m his mouth a time or two, and lazilv looking up at the colonel, remarked, I don't live in this here neighbourhood. Live a good ways from here. Yes, and I 'lowed that before the season got busy again Id oxap over here and gather me up a chunk of a wife. "The h—-1 you did!" the colonel ex- claimed. 'Yes, before the season gets busy again. But I'm mighty hard to please, I tell you. Don't care much about the girl, though. A feller down yander advised me to come up here and marry your daughter, but I replied that I was so blamed par ti cular They picked up the lank fellow and hauled him to a boarding-house, and when he cama to he made certain inquiries concerning him- self, and then said that he reckoned that it was all right. He said that some men had one way of handling a subject and some another.' "We live and learn," he remarked. "Jf wa furgit somethin' to-day, we're mighty apt to think of somethin' new to-morrrow." The. old colonel called on the fellow. He was as tender-hearted as he was peculiar. Tho lank man forgave him, and they talked plea- santly of the shooting scrapes they had seen,' and an intimacy of pity on one side and » peculiar aimlessness on the other grew be-' tween them. One day the lank man, sitting in a rocking chair at the window, looked up after a few moments of pondering and re- marked :— < "Colonel, I wouldn't marry your daughter, sir." Well, I gad, that's ccol. Wouldn't marry hei ? Why, hang it, you have never seen her." "I know, but that don't make any difference since she'd have nothing to do with it anyway.; I have discovered that there ain't nothin' re- markable about you, anyhow. I don't know of a more ordinary man than you are, and I couldn't afford to have you for a law." ycu impudent -scroundrel, I'm tha most prominent man in this community; aud, I gad, sir, I'm kin to the Peppers." "I don't care if you are kin to the lettuce and. the oniom. Yon don't strike me as a,molifit-i-Tl, to much. ISo, I don't want your daughter. "Why, confound your lank picture, if you bully iiit. voti take "Öh, I reckon not." "What! Now, look here, I never was bullied in my life, and I never intend to be. Blast me if you shan't marry her this very day. I'll teach you to come bullying me, you good for nothing wretch." The old man went a way snorting, and the fact is that the lank fellow and the girl were mar- ried that very day, and now everybody it laughing at the colonel, for the peculiar fellow and the girl had been engaged to each other for more than a year. 1Ii(tJf-,