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Show 1 Historic I Crime? I (Mysteries Wall Masml 1(1 coht Sj rns eM ;; j I stwM iwoitsre. M. HENRI QUITS DRINKINU. ElRhty years uro Madame Henri hnil no Idea that her fume would extend from the village of Brittany In which she lived to all corners of Frunce, or thut her name would ever be spoken In whispers by a nation's story-tellers. She fully exlTtcd to lead a quiet and useful life, mid In the end be buried with her forbears In the churchyard. She was a quiet, practical woman, u fine housekeeper and an excellent man-agCTi man-agCTi and iverybody respected her. When ll I was married most of the Clrls of tin village envied her and perhaps per-haps a few hated her; for divers damsels dam-sels had made strenuous efforts to capture 'he youtiK man who became her husband. If, Henri Ml extremely handsome, and had a hundred charms and ajnXna. He was the best sinner In the countryside, he was full of witty 1 fori ap, and the way he could dance was a caution. Everybody admired the vomit? man. Well, It Is true that tte old cure shook his head now and then, when Henri was mentioned. The young man was too ftagbtJT. said that reverend man. But the cure was hopeful when he heard the nntne of Henri's bride. This nlrl CM-.v of ti thrifty family, and she abhorred waste, without telttg avaricious. She was distinguished for her beautiful complexion, which reminded re-minded people of cream and roses; and her face was framed by masses of curling brown hair. And she was celebrated cele-brated In her own neighborhood for her physical strength. Without bcinn bulky or awkward, she had the power f two ordinary men in her muscle--. Th" strongest man in the village was as an Infujit In her bands when, to lend Interest to the evening sports, she consented con-sented to demonstrate her strength. So Henri married this lovely and attractive at-tractive girl, aid they went to housekeeping, house-keeping, and for a while the husband was a success. He worked diligently, and spent his evenings at home, and his wife managed so successfully that money was being saved. But all the time the young man hungered and thirsted for the bright lights in the tavern windows. And before long he begun making frequent trips to the grog bnzuur, and when he returned home his brcaih spoke volumes. It went from worse to worse, as it usu-aliy usu-aliy does in such cases, and in u few months Madame Henri had to spend her evenings ulone. The husbund was holding high wusuull ut the Horn of Plasty Inn. It was breaking her heart, and she pleaded and argued with him, aud even threatened, and all to no uvail. Henri cume reeling home uearly every night, a spectacle for the gods. Then a relative of hers died and left her a comfortable legacy. She had long known thut this money would come to her, and when she was married mar-ried she and her husband had made beautiful plans as to what they would do with it. They'd buy a little fiinn and live happy ever after. And now that the legacy was hers, Madame Henri mude one lust effort to arouse a sane ambition In her husband. She implored him to quit M) foolishness aud help her carry out the original plans. He eemed to be roused by her entreaties. und promised, her to refrain from the flowing bowl forever. He had sown his I lust wild oat. She believed hlf. ftnrj negotiated for n farm she had hud her eyes on for a long time. Then one day i she handed him some money to take to the notary who was conducting the negotiation. He didn't take the money to tte notary. no-tary. He took It to the Horn of lien-ty. lien-ty. l.ate nt night he returned to his abode In merry humor. He opened the door and entered, wearing I vacuous vacu-ous grin. Madame Henri rose from her chair and faced htm. and a hot wnve vt anger swept over her. She 'forgot her phenomen.il strength when I tte stick aim. lie fell to tte Boor 'like a sack of in vil. and she realized that he hud taken his ,ast drink, on succeeding days neighbors ; paused, ns usual, at Madame Henri' garden gate, to gossip t-lt, and she volunteered the Information to all of iheni that her husband had quit thinking think-ing and was going to settle down. He had gone away to look at several properties prop-erties which were for sale, and she didn't know when he'd be back. AftcP wauls the neighbors remembered that she had harped upon IhN mat'et Insistently, In-sistently, bringing It up every time she talked with them. A quarter of a mile away from the Henri cottage there was n stream, and upon the bank of this strewn there stood n gristmill. One morning as the miller was going to his dally task, he observed a queer-looking object on one of the blades of the walerwheel. With the help of a long pole, hooked at the end, he pulled the thing off the water wheel and brought It to lata). It was a coarse sack, containing something heavy. He opened t lit- sack and beheld a part of a human body. Willi his dusty hair on end he went to the village vil-lage police station, and the ollicer In charge accompanied him to tte river bank and invented the ghastly discovery. discov-ery. "This vvns done by a woman, " tald the tillage sleuth, "(inly R woman would have used a needle and thread Ofl I sa.-k. A man WOUtd have tied It." The alarm was given, and tte villagers vil-lagers helped tO Comb the ItreaO), and during the day various similar aoekg were found, all containing fragments of a human body, and all sewn with needle and thread. The lead alOB couldn't be found, and the head was necessary to the Identification Of the victim, aud the solution of the mystery. mys-tery. The fays went bj and no progress prog-ress was made, but the village sleuth studied and worried over il day and night, and llnally concluded that the absence ab-sence of M. Henri would bear Investigation. Investiga-tion. So he dlagulaed himself after the manner of Vldocq anil managed to become be-come well acquainted with Madame B "" r a . .'; , m iaaa.a f -- tmB aAsafPwDUwHaT afDV "'h U iH .fc-awa,a awsvj ppV waww v -asfsfw1 lak aaal aaB lfllt" f 1 swrm ,j -i-""' f&njrMhaVWa s Jlf1 "a -r i - tl - -i tti ' aHrA'gamTawwiaa9 ' 'LB Aa. Is? H v-1 fc-,fc','fMPJBaMfsi. "'Jt'kavf,fca)- --... - - '. Every Night, Till the Whole Body Was Disposed Of, She Carried a Bundle to the River and Threw It In. Henri, and soon concluded that her stories sto-ries nbout her husband were false. Then he accused her of his murder In so many words. The madain. strong as she was, fell In a s.vn ui, and when she recovered consciousness confessed everything. After fading that her husband was dead, fte carried his body to the cellar, cel-lar, and there Chopped him into convenient con-venient chunks with an ax The pieces she sewed Up in sacks, und ev-i ev-i n night, until the whole body was dly. posed of, ate carried bundle to tte liver and tbn u it In. Even when this was known mod of the people sympathized with the wom- , an, knowing how much she had en dured. The terrible story was carried all over Europe, and for weeks together to-gether the newepapere were full of it, anil many yaON afterwards tourists went out of their way to visit the corner cor-ner of Brittany where Madame Henri Induced lur husband to sljjn the pledge. The woman was tried and convicted In due season, and was scnteuced to twenty years at hard labor. |