New York Dispatch

A Singular Criminal.-A singular criminal has just been dealt with at Bremen and Strasburg. This was a man by name Theophile Mary, a hairdresser, born at Barr, whose vicious tendency took the form of inflicting slight stabs with a dagger on young women. At Strasburg he attacked no fewer than eighteen, nearly all of whom he struck on the breast. He made his first appearance two years ago, when for a month he spread terror among the inhabitants, all efforts to capture him failing. He then vanished from Alsace, and some time afterward turned up at Bremen, where he again distinguished himself by his dastardly attacks. Here, however, he was soon arrested, sentenced to seven years imprisonment, and handed over to the Strasburg authorities to be dealt with there. The eighteen young women whom the prisoner had wounded (none of them, fortunately, severely), appeared as witnesses against him. An expert declared him in possession of his senses, ascribing his acts to a morbid vanity, and the court sentenced him to one year's imprisonment, to be added to the seven years given him at Bremen. The man is thirty-one years of age.