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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Wholesale Murderer. (search)
A Wholesale Murderer.
--The Lyons journals mention the arrest of a man who is supposed to have committed several murderee in the vicinity of that city, his victims in every case being servant girls.
His last attempt was made upon a young woman, named Marie Pichon, employed in a silk manufactory.
She met the man last week.
and he asked her if she knew any young woman in want of a situation, as he was looking for a servant for his master, who lived at a chateau a few miles from Lyons.
Tempted by the wages offered, she agreed to take the place herself.
She accordingly went by rail from Lyons to Montreal, which the man said was the nearest station to his master's chateau.
On alighting at Montreal the fellow took the girl's trunk on his shoulder, and said they would go the nearest way across the fields.
After walking some distance, he pretended to be tired, and said he would hide the trunk among the vinces and fetch it in his master's cart.
The girl's suspicions were soon