HORRIBLE CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 90, 17 April 1890, Page 5

HORRIBLE CRIME.

THE DEED OF >A DRUNKEN CANADIAN.

Rudolph Duboiso murdered hie wife, his mother-in-law and hie two children at the village -of St. Albans in. Canada last month. >'When the family were gettinjj ready for dinner Dubois made some slightine remark about his wife's cooKing, when, Mrs Olymshe Tbibault, 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--houre. He bad gone to the grocery and bought a iquarb of white whisky. Then he wont to,the barn and staved there.until he.had drunk it aIL

jilad, with the liquor, he returned to the house, brandished the empty .bottle about his-head and said that he w6ujd.be the .master of, his own house. ~ His wife, Mary, fled in terror into the but the motherin -law attem p ted to take the bottle from him. " I've stood this Ion? enough," ho said, and struck the old lady on the head. Her ecreams 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 gaeh in her bead. Then Dubois deliberately ..began to hack his mother-in-law into pieces. Not satisfied with this bloody work, he went, upstairs, where hie four-monthe-old baby r was in »'cradle. " The .Biby- was almost decapitated, besides having several cruel cuts all over the body. Hie thirst for blood' was, not. yet satisfied, and with the bloody axe tie went out on the road, where Joseph Rudolpbe, his son, was playing, and struck him on the head. He threw the axe beside the body.ahd 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' etart of his pursuers, and at last accounts he had not been captured. Duboiß will be lynched if caught,