Gruner of Jena speaks of a man by the name of Goldschmidt, in the environs of Weimar, who developed a depraved appetite for human flesh.

He was married at twenty-seven, and for twenty-eight years exercised his calling as a cow-herd.

Nothing extraordinary was noticed in him, except his rudeness of manner and his choleric and gross disposition.

In 1771, at the age of fifty-five, he met a young traveler in the woods, and accused him of frightening his cows; a discussion arose, and subsequently a quarrel, in which Goldschmidt killed his antagonist by a blow with a stick which he used.

To avoid detection he dragged the body to the bushes, cut it up, and took it home in sections.