A French Child's Crime
Item
- Title
- A French Child's Crime
- Date
- 4-Dec-00
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020358/1900-02-15/ed-1/?sp=1&q=assault&r=0.161,0.212,0.259,0.285,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- children; attempted murder
- Gender of alleged offender
- female alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- crime
- Location
- Out of State; armentierres France
- Length of story
- 118
- Description
-
Murderously Assaults Another Child to Get Some Cake.
Lille, France, Dec. 3. A great sensation has been caused in Armentierres, nine miles northwest of Lille, by a crime committed by a child upon another two years of age. Valentine Dilly, the daughter of poverty-stricken parents, saw a baby girl in the street holding a cake. She endeavored to take it from the infant, and when the latter resisted, dragged her into the house, forced her into a trunk, stabbed her in the arms and legs a dozen times, and inflicted terrible wounds in the stomach with a shoemaker's knife. The infant is not expected to recover. Valentine at first accused a brother of the crime, but finally confessed.
