CUTTING A BROTHER'S HEAD OFF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 144, 20 June 1895, Page 4

CUTTING A BROTHER'S HEAD OFF.

An individual who the other doy gave his name to the Paris police as Baptiste Laborie, and who is evidently iiieane, confessed to M, Dreeoh, the Police Com. miesary, that be had killed his little brother, aged about twelve, in the wood of Delmar, near SentZßrguo*?, in the Oantal. One tunday evening, at about eleven o'olook, he knocked at the dooi* of St Lewis Hospital, shouting that he wanted to consult a doctor for hie brother. His eccentrio conduct caused ', two- policemen to conduct him to M. Drefoh's-effice, where be at once opened a bag he was carrying, and showed the «• head of his brother. He related tbat on the 3rd of March he had left St Denis, in the Seine et Mvno, with the object oi killing his brother,, whom ho loved - tenderly. He haa done so in obedience :.■'; -.'- to voioes he" had heard that told him that he must; npt.^ leave his brother any .'>*.' '.longer with: life*father, whose conduct „, ,* .was deploraßfe. He took his brother - - into thp woo<i;'and, after shooting him in V. • tbe chest, -cut; off hiß head, 'Ihe madman, who is a oattle drover, was sent to * theinflrmacy of the jolice depot. He preserves perfeot oalm, aud is, to all appearance, quite unconscious that he has - - committed a terrible orime. The trnth .has been;cqnfirmed by tbe finding of the "',' body of his brother in the wood whore •{be madam said he had killed him,