MURDER BY A MANIAC.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

MURDER BY A MANIAC.

A FJjAUi'tTL murder was committed by a maniac at a village in the Department of tho Loriet. At Saint-Gyr-en-Val lived Madame Jullien and her son, a young fellow of twenty-six, who worked in the vineyards, and always passed as a mildmannered and industrious person. On returning home to his mother's house on tho day of the murder he appeared very excited, and when questioned as to the cause of his strange behavour lie said that ho was under a spell, a ;ul that he wanted a woman's tongue in order to free himself from the sinister influence of the sorcerer. Madame Jullien, frlgi itened at the aspect of her sou, who became livid with rage, tried to run away, but the maniac caught her, felled her to the earth, and battered her skull in. Then lie hacked the body about, and finally opening the jaws of his victim, he pulled out her tonguo and exhibited it iu triumph to tho neighbours, who were attracted to the spot- by the woman's cries and the diabolic il yells of her /aving murderer. Tiie people ran away terror-stricken at the awfu 1 sight, and left the ir,adman to himself. He smashed all the furniture in ilie house, and tin; jumped out of a waidjw, breaking two o: his ribs. He was carried, in an insensible condition, to nn asylum.