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of a laborer, who promptly came to the rescue discovered that it had disappeared. B. had taken and in all probability saved the little fellow's life. the little child to his own room, put it in his bed, Shortly after this act of cruelty to his brother, B. and then piled a quantity of clothing, etc., on top was apprehended for cutting the throat of a valu of it. When rescued, the child was nearly suffo able horse belonging to a neighbor. For some cated, and was revived with difficulty. Immedi little time prior to this act considerable anxiety ately after this attempt to suffocate his baby had been felt by people in the neighborhood sister, B. abstracted a considerable sum of money where B. lived for their livestock. Horses were from his father's desk, and attempted to escape unsafe at night in the pastures, as several had with it; he was recaptured, however, and the been found in the mornings with wounded throats. money taken from him. For this offense he was In the stables they were tried, found guilty, and equally unsafe, as a valu sentenced to serve seven able beast was killed in years in the peniten its stall in broad day tiary. While serving light. About this time out this sentence he was also, people in the transferred to the crimi neighborhood observed nal asylum connected an unaccountable de with the prison, but on crease in the number of the expiration of his their fowls. When B. sentence he was dis was apprehended for charged. On being re cutting the horse's leased he crossed over throat, he confessed that to the United States and he not only did this vile enlisted in a cavalry act, but also that he had regiment. In conse maimed the other quence of the horse as animals to which refer signed to him not being ence had been made, a good one he was and that he had killed obliged to fall behind on the fowls, twisted their a march, and, taking necks, and then con advantage of this, a cealed them in wood favorable opportunity piles, etc. For these offering, he drove this offenses he was sen animal into a deep FELIX VOISIN. tenced to twelve months morass and belabored in gaol. When he re the poor beast until it turned home, after serving out his sentence, his was fast in the mire; there he left it to its fate, family were more suspicious of him, owing to past and it was found dead the next morning. B. nowexperience, and he was more carefully looked deserted, and after undergoing some hardships after. He was watched during the day, and again returned home, where he was, as before, locked in a separate room at night. These meas carefully watched. ures were necessary to protect the family, as he "His next escapade was the resultof an accident. had made an effort to strangle a younger brother B. and his father were at a neighbor's one evening, while occupying a dormitory with him. and while paring apples the old man accidentally "One day, soon after his discharge from gaol, cut his hand so severely as to cause the blood to B.'s stepmother left a little child asleep upstairs, flow profusely. B. was observed to become rest while she proceeded with her household duties, less, nervous, pale, and to have undergone a peculiar not knowing that B. was in the house. In a short change in demeanor. Taking advantage of the dis traction produced by the accident, B. escaped from time she was informed by one of the other chil dren that the baby was crying, and on going to the house and proceeded to a neighboring firmthe room where she had left the sleeping baby she yard, where he cut the throat of a horse, killing it.