The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

S. January 31, 1766.

THE following melancholy accident lately happened, at Carpentras in the district of Avignon. An inhabitant of that Place had married his daughter, and the wedding day being passed with the usual merriment, the new married couple were conducted to their apartment. The next day as neither of them made their appearance, after waiting till it was very late, a person was sent to call them, but as nobody answered and the window-shutters being open, they got a ladder and looked in at the window, when they found the young woman dragged upon the floor all over blood, and the husband tearing her with his teeth and devouring her. It is impossible to express the horror which such a shocking spectacle must occasion. They immediately broke open the door, but too late to save the poor woman, who was found quite dead and almost torn to pieces. They were at a loss to know to what to attribute this shocking catastrophe, but the footman of the new married man recollected that his master had some time before been bit by a mad dog, which they were convinced must be the cause of it. They thought it expedient to shoot the unhappy man, which was done accordingly.