A TERRIBLE CRIME IN FRANCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1495, 1 March 1887, Page 2

A TERRIBLE CRIME IN FRANCE.

A terrible orima has just been committed m the Morbihan, France. A miller woman named Jalln, had four ohlldren, two sons and two daughter!. The elder daughter Esther Jallo, wai pretty and ooiiboloub of the fact. She had also Borne eduoation, and was a great favorite m the village, where the other inmates of the mill were disliked and feared. One day her family began to affirm that she was possessed of the demon of pride. There was an evil spirit In Esther's body, and the brothers Jallu declared to everybody that they would m some way drive it out. After ruminating upon the matter for some time, they barred the doora of the mill, and, seizing their sister, threw her on the floor. One of them held her do*n while the othet bored holes m her with an augur. The demon was to esoape out of her body by these openings. While the soreams of the tortured girl were half drownod by the noise of millstones turning rapidly, two women — the mother and sister — were actually kneeling beside her praying for the success of the operation . Four holes were bored, one In the forehead, one m the body, and one m eaoh leg. Whether the Ignorant peasants really imagined that they oould thai drive the demon of pride out of their sitter, or whether they premeditated the* murder they committed, mattered very little to Esther, who, of oourse, died under 1 the' operation. When the inhabitants of the surrounding country came to inquire after Esther, when she had not been seen for several days, the two brothers and slater appeared at the door armed with hatoheta, and threatened to strike anyone who should dare to approach them. The gendarmes were at onoe informed of the ooourrence, and the inmates of this mill having been seized, they were etat to a madhouse. — European Mail,

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