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A Series of Horrible murdered in France.
The trial of a case, almost unequalled in the annuals of crime, has just been concluded at Bourg, near Lyons, France.
A man named Dumollard was charged with a number of murders, and his wife with being accessory to them.
He lived near Lyons, and his practice for several years past, it appears, has been to go to the city frequently and secure his victims in the following manner: Meeting a girl who looked like a servant, he would inquire of her the way to an intelligence office and, getting into conversation with her, would state that he was employed at a chateau a few miles in the country, and that he was in search of a servant girl, to whom very superior wages would be paid.
It the girl whom he accested was looking for a place she would generally accept his offer, and they would start out on the cars together.
Dumollard so contrived it that they should reach the station at which they were to descend after dark, when he would shoulder