FRIGHTFUL SAUSAGES.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 53, 5 October 1878, Page 3

FRIGHTFUL SAUSAGES.

If a horrible story, vouched for by the .Messager du Midi be true, the inhabitants of the Spanish town of Arauguoz has been in the habit of soiling to an unsuspecting public, sausages, pates and boudin, made exclusively of human flesh. So excellent were his comestibles found that he reckoned more customers than any other pork butcher in the town, and having amassed a sufficient fortune he was meditating retiring from business when hazard brought about the discovery of his malpractices. It seems that within tin; last year or eighteen months several persons have unaccountably disappeared' from Araugucz, and in spite of the investigations made by the police no cine has been forthcoming concerning their fate. The missing clue has at length been found they have iilled the role which by right should have belonged to the pig, and their fellow-townsmen have unwittingly eaten them in the guise ehareuterie. The unscrupulous pork butcher was aided iu his horrible business by coiffeur. The Spanish Figaro’s shop where he shaved his customers was provided with a trapdoor, by which means those among them whom he designed to death were precipitated into a cellar, where they were dispatched, their bodies being handed over to the pork bulcter. The disappearance of a young man called Francisco Andral, who was seen to enter the harbor's shop and never came out of it alive, raised suspicion ; the police followed up the scent, and the fatal trap door, the cellar with its blood stained floor, and certain other proofs, which left no doubt upon their minds ns to the guilt of the accused. The two miscreants are now in the hands of justice, which, if the history of their atrocious crimes be correct, will deal with them according to tnoir merits.