A YOUTHFUL MONSTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 162, 9 July 1881, Page 1

A YOUTHFUL MONSTER.

Crime appears to *be 00 the increase in France^ and bur 'police courts ' arefilled with cases of . the rqost horrible! deprayit^V; The Vpthiff' ,daj^ [% youn^ wretch,, only 16 jeam : eld^ Enticed; a little boy ; of 6 years: into his troom-^tiejl"! him to a chairp and delifcterately cut? bim to; pieces with a ! lafge;; kni^,, >JThe only mptivb for the deed.seemed i'tp bb a desire to : witness the agomzed struggles of his victim. Strangely . enougb> the yonng. fiend lodged a complaint against himself and surrendered to the police ioi mediately after* ' the crime. .His name is Felix Lemaitrei, ; and ! be lived in hired rooms at No. 220 Bouleyard de la, Villette. ! He tbii the story in' a calr, matteif of-fact v?ay,. as though murder was bis ordinary dcciipai- ■ tion. "On the f lsth of last- February,'? said hej * fe I J sfdi.e" franc^ p6$A my \m^i ' J spenfetnein m going t^.jifiei theatres and places of amuseraeatia Tfeßterdaf I found myself at the s ei^ ! bf 'mV . rei'sources; I ieit angry-, and the ,idea<r of . killing- a, child c suddenly entered 1 my ', heid, : Chance led me to; the littie one whom 1 killed; I found him in the street. ; I promised him a scebl f chali^ . .which -X showed Wm,^asuan indoiceteent for him ta come with me. Arrived; in imy rooms, I tied: his banjis behind" his 'batk as if in ! * pla£ • ; ;Thdn : I diwdbed the front of His bpdy^ in order ihat the clothes Bhqnld -ofter : no obstacle, and plunged my knifa twice into hfo -stomr ach. A^hd cried diitr IrcWt hia' thrp^tj; Icannb^-s^:^ I have read tiiany novel's, and I found in one of them a eecne like that which I put in executioni" At ;this ! horribly recital thp police officers thought tbemj selves in the presence of some m'onsterj such as tbe.annalsof medicine occasionally furnish examplea of, . £e.mjiitrp ; waa ; ratber)^ge :fpr 'age^of dark eom'piexicm, .and. with* : bright,: blaelt : eye»/ :;•■:'.'■ '* :: -. : •** .* _■*?;! AY.- : J:^ - ■■■. s His ; ;waa; : shbcikpd Wheti told of ifie^afrest;* ". had been, quite . unawa>re ;i of , the theft of the 200 tfr Anbs j and said Leinait're^ #as ; a^ mild] timid idy^^ery -stiefidy: JjpYjfrU 'wotki Taken'tpHthe y scene bf the crime, r thq youngiassaasia,; minutely 1 describeidi the : details. A crowd 'gathered ardniid the -;liPUße^ fhxeatening' tb r lyhch tKd prikpner % 'Y\^ a 'btr^p4^.guar(l proteote^ bim, on his W$ fcac^ tor-pipison; -m The 1 name » of the little ! victim Was : Jean. Scbadbeni ' _ His -"parents are very poor! and a. subscription, of 150 francs was! 1 sent tHem by the Prefect: of; Eolice to' relieve their immediate necessities.Two doctors examined youttdj tLemaitre ) : Instead of hid mWd being aifceted, as! some thought, tbey iotind that he was I in full possession of all his faculties and that his intelligence was very vivid.* Hp replied to all the questions thatj y?ef c asked with astonishing clearness. ■ His great" ambition waa ta» be an actor, and he declaimed by the hour. The | kni_fehe used was a' .terrible '^eapoq. ! ;Tbe bjatle w^'ftearly eix'inches lpiigj thick, and sliarpsasra raior. Toe handle! was of horn. On account pfhis youth, ! : L'3maitrP i .%as sep(teiiced ; ;to the 3 £[pusp I ;ot ppifrectioni !;Hpcontinupdtq:^eak \ -'fr?Pjy a -wd withji TOrtainypWsuEe of j the crime ho had committed. < Horrible! "OT'^atflihis-^ ~witbpat r %il. ,^'^min^i? j 1 of Jlß72irins3,6 ; ffi\\agG ■ .oif snearj Montgeroiij- a little fellbW 9 years* old his to/a-pbst.Wii -..iii^^..^^,^^^ " htaif;d_^TOiired^ him* , About the; same itime^ iin ; thet province df ya^-a %J^Bv- ;j EH» rii %l^ Ipbm^.i^^^dilßiopi^al^. feiUpd another oase -y ears ioldpinifor der to dee/ agi h& siiid;^^ wh# it vtWVb -thp bsnks.'otythe SBine*:Beac tbis'teit^. Tbese facts rsbowo that b ;(^g wi critn^ :l ßf