HORRIBLE CRIME.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 465, 23 April 1890, Page 4

HORRIBLE CRIME.

THE DEED OF A DRUNKEN CANADIAN. Rudolph Dusoise murdered his wife, his mother-in-law and his two children ab the village of St. Albans in Canada last month. When the family were getting ready for dinner Dubois made some slighting romark about his wife’s cooking, when Mrs Olymshe Thibaulb, the mother-in-law, told him to get out of the house if he did not like it. Dubois rushed out of the house and did not return for a couple of hours. He had gone to the grocery and bought a quart of white whisky. Then he went to the barn and stayed there until he had drunk it all. Mad with the liquor, he returned to the house, brandished the empty bottle about his head and said that he would be the master of his own house. His wife, Mary, fled in terror into the yard, but the mother-in-law attempted to takethebotblefromhim. “ I’ve stood this long enough,” he said, and struck the old lad yon thehead. Her screams brought his wife back into the house, and she saw him pounding her mother’s head with an axe. Forgetting her danger, she rushed in to save her, and was struck down herself with a fearful gash in her head. Then Dubois deliberately began to hack his mother-in-law into pieces. Not satisfled with this bloody work, he went upstairs, where his four-months-old baby was in a cradle. The baby was almost decapitated, besides having several cruel cuts all over the body. His thirst for blood was not yet satisfied, and with the bloody axe he went out on the road, where Joseph Rudolphe, his son, wasplaying, and struck him on the head. He threw the axe beside the body and started for the woods. When the crime was discovered his wife was still alive, but died after telling the frightful story. The whole village turned out to hunt for the murderer, but he had a couple of hours’ start of his pursuers, and at last accounts he had not been captured. Dubois will be lynched if caught.