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 Causes Cefebres. summer, while crossing that bridge in their company, one of them remarked, ' We have sent two bodies under this bridge already.' And this I understood to imply two other murders, anterior to that I have mentioned. "Nothing remarkable happened until Feb ruary, '55, when my two friends met me by appointment at a wine-shop, and brought with them a young female of dark complex ion, with whom and the men I set forth, and proceeded as far as the road leading from Miribel to Romaneche, which passes through the wood. Here I sat down, declaring I would go no farther. They tried to persuade me to proceed, but finding me determined, presently pursued their way, taking with them the girl. "I waited two hours. No cry reached my ears. Still I had a presentiment of something wrong. The men returned alone, saying they had left the girl at a farm. As they brought no clothes with them, L was inclined to be lieve their story. We then parted, and I re turned home. [This was, no doubt, the unfortunate Marie Baday.] "Nothing occurred for two years, during which I had occasional interviews with my two friends; at length, in December, '58, I fell in with them on the Quai de Perrache. They told me they had something on hand; would I come? I consented, and they left me; presently returning with a young girl, with whom we started by the rail for Montluel. It was dark when we arrived; and the men, taking me aside, requested me to guide them to some secluded spot, indicating the wood of Choisy. I told them it was too close to the high-road; it would be better to go on farther. Presently we reached the edge of Montmain Wood. That, I told them, would do. "They left me seated by the roadside. Soon I heard one loud scream, about three hundred yards distant; then profound silence. In a few minutes the men returned, bringing a silver watch and some clothes. I told them I had heard a scream, and asked if she had suffered much. ' No,' they answered;

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' we gave her one blow on the head, and an other in the side, and that did the business.' "We knew that the body of Marie Baday had been found, and it was judged prudent to bury this new corpse. I therefore ran to my house for the tools, and at the same time gave my wife the watch and the clothes, which were stained with blood. She asked me whence they came? Thinking that if I accused others she would not believe me, and relying, like a fool, on her discretion, I replied that they had belonged to a girl I had killed and was about to bury in Montmain Wood. I then went back to my friends, who dug a shallow grave and concealed the body, while I sat by." This was the victim — never identified — whose skeleton was exhumed, as before men tioned, on the 31st July, '61. Dumollard referred to certain other at tempts which had failed, owing to the sus picions of the intended victims, and continued : — "I must speak now of this girl, Marie Eulalie Bussod, whose body lies before us. I accosted her one day on the bridge La Guillotiere, and asked her if she would ac cept a good place in the country, offering two hundred francs. She required two hundred and, ten, and we went to the residence of her sister to discuss the matter, where I agreed to her terms. At the end of a week I re turned, and escorted her to the station at Brotteaux, where I had, in the interim, de sired my two employers to meet me. They came, and I introduced them to Marie Bussod as friends and neighbors of mine, who would accompany us some little distance after quitting the rail. "It was dark when we reached Montluel, and I had to act as guide, carrying the girl's trunk. ' What a lovely creature! ' whispered one of my friends to me as we set out. "I led the way toward the wood Com munes, — a wild, retired spot, — following a path, almost obliterated, toward Croix-Martel. Here I hid the trunk among some bushes,