A Youthful Murderer

Aimee Lacatón, a girl of 18, in Angouleme, France, was fouml running írantically througli the .sírcete besmeared wíth blood, and soou ai'ttci1 di-opped dead. Félix Fraicho, a youtli of 15, witli whose parents slie was a servant, was found to be the murderex. He said that he was alone in the house with the girl, and that he seuted himself in the dining-room to writc a Latin exercise. The girl oame to light the flre, when he became seized with an irresistible desire to murder her. He ascended to his father's room, took a dagger from the closet, and, on his return, plunged it into the girl's back, as she was on her knees at the flreplace. She rose witli a scream and ran ont, while he rnshed to the window to throw himself out, but did not dare to jump. He then struck himself several times with a knife, and drank etlier, but without succeeding in Jsilling himself. The boy was of a íorbidding aspect, and deformed, and liad a heavy upper lip, whioh, being paralyzed, hung over the other. His (ycs were sunken, and he squinted. . He Vas condemned to imprisoument until his 20th year.