A TERRIBLE CRIME.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1562, 8 March 1887, Page 4

A TERRIBLE CRIME.

A terrible crime has just been committed in the Morbihan, France. A miller woman named Jullu, had four children, two sons and two daughters. The elder daughter, Esther Jallu, was pretty and concious of the fact. She had also some education, and was a great favorite in 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 wns an evil Bpirit in Esther's body, and the brothers Jallu declared to everybody that they would in some way drive it out. After ruminating upon the matter for some time, they barred the doors of the mill, and, seizing their sister, threw her on the floor. One of them held her down while the other bored holes in her tfith an augur. The demon was to escape out of her body by these openings. While the screams of the tortured girl where half drowned by the noise of the 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 in the body, and one in each leg. Whether the ignorant peasants really imagined that they could thus drive the demon of pride out of their sister, or whether they premeditated the murder they committed, mattered very little to Esther, who, of course, died under the operation, When the inhabitants of the surrounding country came to inquire after Esther, when ghe had not been seen for several days, the two brothers and sister appeared at the door armed with hatchets and threatened to strike auyone who would dare to approach them. The gendarmes were at onee informed of the occurrence, and the inmates of the mill haying been seized, they were sent to a madhouse. —European If ail.