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I hi:, G. is'. iiAiu v, Wm Jh ' JU'NGAJtIAK PHYSICIAN, (l-ATE Of KEW YORK CITY,) AFF -RS his professional services to the citi ' Lewistown and surrounding coun in tlie diamond, adjoining lloff lard ware Store. Dr. G. N. H. boards althe Lewistown Hotel. ,L®HU>wn, Aug. 30, 1855—3 m* IHBIBJOTBIB AS?® iPtsnHHisfflnH® ®iß®ffi©is S 1 i\ o ]RiiailllADlDV3. THE SHADOW OP A HAND. It is a question that has often been tie baled whether man or woman possesses most moral courage. I shall not pretend to enter into discussion of the matter here, hut simply relate an incident that came to my knowledge some years since, proving, 1 think, incontestibly, that some of the ; fairer portion of creation are endowed in an eminent degree with this virtue. In the autumn of 1840 circumstances called me to Dieppe. To tell the truth, I was by no means sorry to visit this fash ionable watering place. The change is a ! very agreeable one after a long sojourn in Paris. It was late in the evening of the 1 Ith of August that 1 arrived at the end ! of my journey, and prodeeded at once to : the Hotel des Bains, (which, by the by, I can recommend to those readers who may happen to visit Dieppe,) and after a light supper, retired to rest. 1 have alwajN been an early riser. It makes no difference what lime I go to bed at night, 1 am sure to get up early in the morning. I suppose this is habit, i mre than anything else. However that may be the morning after my arrival I was :up by cockcrow, i looked at my watch ! and found it wanted a few minutes to four, i I determined I would go and explore the ! town. W hen 1 arrived iu the st.eet 1 was very much surprised to find it lull of people.- I 1 gave the inhabitants of Dieppe credit for j being very industrious, beating their Paris ; ian brethren to nothing in the exercise of the virtue of early rising, and expected to discover upon inquiry a practical illustra . lion of the truth of the adage, by finding ! the citizens of that pretty but rather slow j town noted for their health, renowned for 1 their wealth, and courted for their wisdom. I I was disturbed from tiiese reflections by observing that the people were all go ! ing in one direction, and they hurried for j ward as it stimulated by some extraordi ' nary curiosity. I addressed inquiries to ! some of them, but they were too breath less and in too great a hurrv to make any reply to me. All they Hid was to point before them and nod their heads. N ot being able to obtain any satisfaction | from them I determined to follow their | footsteps, as 1 was convinced there must be something to he seen. We advanced at a very quick pace down , a handsome street, which I afterwards learned was the chief street iu the town, called the Grande Rue; the crowd all the time getting denser, so as to render it more difficult to proceed. We might have gone i a mile perhaps, when the street suddenly opened into a large square; this square | was densely packed with a great mob.— : '1 'he most distracted noise and confusion prevailed, but 1 saw something there, rais ed on a platform at the further end of the { square, that engaged my whole attention, and made my blood feel as if it were turn ed inlo ice. It was a guillotine? Yes, there was tiie hideous frame work painted black, that I had seen once before at the Place du Prone in Paris. At the . moment J turned my eyes on this instru ment of death, a man was engaged oiling the groaves, and to enable him to do it more conveniently the knife was lowered half j way down between the two posts, and the t morning sun made the blade glitter, ren j dei'.'ng it easily to be distinguished by the i whole mjltU'tde. j Although i had .''ecn an execution, and i was well aware of the painful effect it had j upon my mind for rnPnths Afterwards, morbid curiosity impelled n:e to rc.'nain and see the conclusion of the tragedy- I had not to wait long, a neighboring be!! began to toll and a cart made its appear ance hearing the criminal. He appeared to take matters very easy, and when I first saw him he was conversing gaily with the two gendarmes who accompanied liiin.— He was smoking a cigar, and glanced around at the multitude with the most per fect nonchalance. The populace when they saw him raised a yell of execration; ; a palpable sneeV was the only reply he | deigned to make. He ascended the steps leading to the j scaffold with an easv gait, and turning ; sharply around to the mob, stood for a minute or two with his arms folded, and foot advanced as if defying them. He THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1857. glanced at tliem a look of unutterable scorn and muttered between his teeth the word "Canaille." It was during this minute or two that I had time to make a note of his appearance, lie appeared to be about thirty-live years of age. lie was tall and powerfully built, but his features were the very epitome of villainy. His eyes were dark and large, ' surmounted by bushy eyebrows. He wore a long moustache which extended i beyond his cheeks. Every bad passion j seemed to be expressed in his face, in fact his countenance might be called perfectly j devilish. An involuntary shudder ran through me as 1 gazed upon it. He resigned himself into the hands of the executioner, and in a few minutes all was over. When the time came lor the knife to descend, 1 had not the courage to look, hut turned my head away, and it was only by a shout of the mob that 1 knew the tragedy was finished. 1 enquired of a spectator near me, the name of the criminal and the crime for which he had suffered. The man stared at me with astonishment saying— ' Why, it's Jacques Reynauld!' The name struck me as being somewhat familiar, and 1 endeavored to remember where 1 had heard it before. 1 suddenly recollected the Paris newspapers some months back bad been filled with the his tory of several awful murders committed iu Dieppe, and this man's name was in some way connected with them, but in w hat manner 1 could not learn. But my curiosity was now thoroughly excited, and I immediately made the most minute en quiries into the matter, and before I left Dieppe had learned the following partieu l trs: In the Rue des Armes, about four months previous to the time I write, lived a wor thy haberdasher of the name of Maurice. His family consisted of himself, his wife, one child, and a servant girl. They were quiet, respectable people and very much respected by ail their neighbors. M. Maurice did a good business and frequently bad a considerable sum of mon ey in his house. He had an extraordinary run of custom on Saturday, and when the labors of the day were over he felt very much fatigued. He shut up his shop and proceeded to a small room, where his wife and servant were laying ihe cloth for sup per. 'My dear,' said his wife, as soon as he entered the room, 'i should very much like some oysters for supper to night.' '1 am afraid it is too late,' replied the husband, looking at his watch. 'lt is a quarter past eleven.' 'Oh no, Justine says there is a shop open round the corner.' •If that be the case let Justine get some at once, lor I am as hungry as a hunter. Thereupon Justine put on her bonnet and shawl, and went for the oysters; leav ing the door ajar, that she might not dis turb her master or mistress when she re turned. Now it so happened that the place where she expected to be able to obtain the oys ters was closed; but not wishing to disap point her employers, she determined she would go and seek them elsewhere. In pursuance of this object, she entered Grand Rue, hut had to walk a considera j ble distance before she could obtain what she sought. She hurried home again, and noticed when she arrived at the door ol j her master's house that the chimes of a neighboring church struck a quarter to twelve .Site had, therefore, been absent just half an hour. She was surprised to find the door shut, hut supposing that the wind had blown it to, she raised the latch. The door was fastened on the inside. She thought this rather stra. n " e but then again she reflected that it was ufJubtless only a necessary precaution on thepa.Hof her master. She rung the bell, and was very much con cerned when, after waiting a few minutes no reply was made. *They Jiive gtA'ie to bed,' she said to herself, and felt rather angry with them for having locked her out. She now became alarmed, and rung long and violently—no answer! Her fears were thoroughly aroused, and she related the circumstance to some persons passing along the street. The presence of two or three gendarmes was soon procured, and they proceeded at once to break open the door. The passage into which the door open etl was perfectly dark; but one of the gen darmes stumbled over something, and put ting out his hand to save nimself, it came . ° hi contact with something wet on the I ground. A light was immediately obtain ed, anil a horrible sight presented itself. Laying across the passage was the dead ' body ol Monsieur Maurice, with his throat ! cut from ear to ear. The floor was swim- j niing iu blood. In the little room was the dead body of his wife, presenting the same ghastly wound. Even the little child in the cradle had not escaped, for the merci less assassin had taken its life by the same horiible means. The house was ransack- '< ed from top to bottom, and everything of \ value stolen. I shall not attempt to depict the horror of the persons who witnessed this shock- ! ing sight; it can be more easily imagined than described, and to tell the truth I don't j like dealing in the horrible; it is pandering j to a morbid taste, and if I have Iransgres- . sed my usual mode of narration in this sketch, my only excuse is— it is true. The most strenuous efforts were made to detect the murderer, but without any success. All that could be learned was that a man had been seen to look intently in the shop windows about the time M. Maurice was counting out his day's re ceipts. The whole town of Dieppe was horrified, and when night came many a , heart trembled. After a few days the : feeling ol fear began to decrease, when they were again awakened in a tenfold mannpr by another shocking murder. About ten days after the catastrophe iu i the Rue des Armes, some belated pedestri ans were making the best of their way home about two o'clock in the morning. They were walking very rapidly down the' Rue Grenard, when they were astounded by seeing a man on the roof of a house, with nothing on but his shirt, crying out with all his strength, 4 murder! murder! murder!' He held A young child in his j arms. They immediately called to him, but all they could gather from hint wis that mur der was being committed in the house.— They directly made fur the door and found it fastened on the inside. They burst the door open with a few vigorous kicks and penetrated inlo the house. They rushed up stairs and on the first lauding they I I'uulid the body of a man with his throat cut. He was dead. They entered a bed i room—hanging half out of lied was the body of a woman, mutilated in the same 1 horrible manner, and stone dead. But they had not yet discovered all the horrore ;in that house of blood. In the kitchen | was discovered the inanimate corpse of | the servant girl who had been killed by 1 the same means. The assassin was evi dently the same that had committed the murder in the Rue des Armes. The wounds inflicted were exactly of the same ! character and it was evident the same in strument had been used. The young man who was seen on the roof of the house was called Pierre Du | lon ; he deposed before the procurer du ! Roi, the next inorninv, as follows: 4 My name is Pierre Dillon; I am twen ty years of age, and a watch maker by I trade. For the last two years I have been j living as assistant with the late Monsieur ' Monton. He resided in Rue Grenard.— ; His family consisted of himself, wife, child and servant girl- On the night of the 21st April, 1846, we all of us retired tombed i early. 1 was accustomed to sleep in one ;of the attics. In the room next to mine ; the servant girl and child slept. About half past oae o'clock in the morning 1 awoke. I felt very thirsty and rose to get some water —my pitcher was empty. I went down stairs to fill it. I had nearly reaciied the first landing when I saw a ! man stealthily ascending the stairs. lam a very nervous man. and the recent mur der had preyed very much on my inind, and I had been living in continual dread ever since. The sight of tiiis mail com pletely paralyzed me, and I stood looking, not able to move hand or foot, lie had i nearly reached master's door, when M. MoTdon opened the door and came out on the landing. The assassin immediately rushed upon him, and putting his hand over my master's mouth prevented him I from calling out. I noticed only one thing, that the murderer had only three fingers on his left hand. I could see no more, but ran up stairs again, and hurried into the servant's room; the child was lying on tlie bed asleep, but the servant girl was not S in the room. I took up the child in my j arms and got out on the roof. This is all I I know about the matter.' The excitement in Dieppe was now raisetl to the highest pilch. No trace of! the assassin could he discovered. It was evident that these murders were the work j of one man, and that he must have been > concealed in the houses before they were j closed lor the night. Government offered a large reward for the discovery of the ! murderer, and the vigilance of the police j was thoroughly aroused. There lived on the outskirts of Dieppe ; a widow lady by the name of Beautnau rise. She had no family, but with one I servant girl lived in a very retired manner, i'lie cottage in which she resided was sit uated about half a mile frqin the city—a j little off from the public road. Madame Beaumaurice had been the wife of an old officer of the Guards. She was an extraordinary woman in every particu lar, hut especially so in respect to a cer tain coolness of character she possessed in the midst of danger, which, together with a large amount of moral courage made her a very notable person. The recent mur ders had perhaps made less impression on ! her mind than upon any one else in Dieppe i —although it was naturally supposed the retired situation iu which she lived would cause her to he more fearful. About ten o'clock on the night of lite 30th of April, just ten days after the mur ders in the Rue Grenard, Madame Beau maurice went up ty her bed-room. She was suffering from a nervous headache.— , Bhe fell very sleepv and seated herself in i * i a large arm chair previous to undressing j herself. The lamp was placed on a chest of drawers behind her. Opposite to her was a toilet table, with a cloth on it reach ing to the floor. She had already com menced taking off her clothes, when hap pening to look around her, she saw some thing that for a moment chilled Iter blood. It was the shadow ola man's hand on the floor. Ihe hand had onlv three lingers ! j Sbe divined the truth in a moment—the i assassin was there in her house-—under I the toilet table. She made not the least ! ; motion or sign, but reflected two or three minutes as to the best course to he pursued. .She decided what to do, and advancing to the door, called her servant maid, i 'Oh, Mary !'she exclaimed, when the • girl entered the room, 'Do you know | where Afopsieur Bernard lives?' ' \ es, Madaine.' ' I have to pay 5,000 francs away very 1 early in the morning. The fact slipped my memory until just now. You will have to run to his house and get the money for me.' 4 Very well, Madame.' '1 will write you a note which you will deliver to liirn, and he will give you bank , bills to the amount.' ' My dear Monsieur Bernard— The assassin of the ilue des Armes and the Rue Grenard is now in my house. Come im mediately with some gendarmes, and take him before he escapes. HELEN BEAUMAURICE.' •\nd without entering into any explana ; tion with her servant, she dispatched her !on the errand. She then quietly reseated herself and waited. Yes, she sat in the room, with that man under the table, for a whole hour. She sat there, calm, cool and collected. She saw the shadow of the hand shift about several limes, but the murderer did not at ! tempt to escape from his place of conceal ment. In due time the gendarmes arrived and Jacques Reynauld was arrested—not how ! ever without a violent struegle. 1 need scarcely add that the most con -1 vincing proof as to his guilt was found, ; and in due time he was guillotined as I have shown in the former part of litis sketch. Aew Mode of Naturalization. —A wo man from Australia, while testifying in a naturalization case in one of the Califor nia courts, was asked if she herself was a citizen, to which she replied, pointing to 1 the first witness, 4 1 have been married to ! that Yankee there more than two years, i and if that don't naturalize me, I don't | know what would !' j -Y dule 11 from 20 to 15 per cent. Linens, Hempen Goods, Other Fiax Goods, Paper and Periodicals, Gils, Paper Hangings. Cotton Hosiery, In Schedule Ffrom 15 to 12 per cent. Tow of Ilcmp, Silver Leaf, Tin Plates, Gold Leaf, ■ Steel in Bars, Flax unmanufactured, ; Tow of Flax, Diamonds. Brimstone, ; The West Branch Insurance Co. 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