HORRIBLE PARRICIDE IN FRANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 10398, 20 August 1897, Page 4

HORRIBLE PARRICIDE IN FRANCE.

MURDERER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. * A peculiarly ferocious murder was committed in Paris by a lad of fifteen years on June 16. The victim was the lad’s father, a lawyer’s clerk, named Lemey, who was sixty-one years of age. For years past he has lived in a flat on the sixth floor of No. 65 rue Michael, and on June 16 he was writing in- his. study when his eldest son, Julien, stole behind him and dealt him a heavy blow on the head with an Indian club. Lemey, ‘half stunned, turned partly round, but before he could utter a word his son cried : “ You old rascal, just you wait a miuute,” and, snatching up a sheath knife from a cupboard, stabbed his father in the chest. The old man staggered from his seat and tried to get to the door, but the son threw himself upon him, and plunged the knife again and again into his father’s body. The elder man finally sank to the floor under the shower of blows. Over, twenty-five distinct stabs were afterwards counted upon him. Seeing that he had at last killed his father, Julien drove the knife deep into his own chest and fell across his victim. Meanwhile Madame Lemey, who lived in mortal terror of her son, locked the doors behind her and ran to a police commissary who resided next door, and others were also brought in. The sight of the blood-stained room and the two bodies caused one of the policemen to faint. The father was dead, but the son still lived. His only answer when questioned by the police why he had killed his father was : It was Jesus Christ.” He subsequently had a fit, and, after foaming at the mouth, fell into a cataleptic stale.