SHOCKING STORY OF CHILD GRIME

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 19 October 1888, Page 2

SHOCKING STORY OF CHILD GRIME

The latest Parisian sensation is one of unspeakable atrocity. A woa»»n named Siauzade wag about a year ago left m s> Btate of destitution with two boys, seven and five years old, io consequence of the death of her husband. A friend of the husbands, a blacksmith, named Oovenel, took home the -widow and the two orphans, and the man and woman lived together aa man and wife. At five o'clook one Saturday morning the blacksmith went to work, leaving the woman and children m bed. About an hoar later she was awakened by shrieks from the youngest boy, and found him weltering m his blood, his stomach being literally ripped up and the bowels protadiog. The elder boy was standing by the bed with an open razor m his hand, and on his mother entering the room he Immediately out bis throat, and fell dying almost instantly. The elder boy soon afterwaids died, and the younger child was removed to the hospital, where he lies In a hopeless condition. He was, however, able to speak and said that Alpbonse, tha brother, had done it. On the woman being interrogated by the polios, she said that the elder boy had always been jealous of his brother, having on two previous occasions attempted te take his life.