The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-07 00:00:00

A 800TCH CAUSE CELEBRE.

Lovers of the morbid Interest which attaches to
mysteries and murders are mush excited by the trial
of M. Eugene Chantrelle, French tescher in Edinburgh.
for the alleged murder of his wife by poisoning, which
I. to begin in the High Court of Jnettchgry on Tneeday,
Lb. 7th of May. Madame Cheatrelle died on the 2nd
of January. A medioal man called in on the morning
of that day found her In a state of tameability. He
noticed a strong 'ma of gas in her bedroom, which it
was discovered, was due to • rude break in the gas-
.‘piyes. Concluding that the ore was one of poisoning
by coelfakthe physkian had the patient removed to the
were was done for her
that magi= could =gut all to no purpose;
Mdme. Chentrelle died at five o'clock the same after-
noon. The !unbend was arrested immediately after
the funeral on the sth of January, and was conveyed
to the Celt= gaol, lot which be has ever shim been an
Inmate. The chief facts that have emerged abuse the
arrest are that Madame Chantrelle was an Edinburgh
lady and twent7.five years of age; that she had been
married for eight years, having bean previously a
pupil of the prisoner; that the pair had led a very
life—a fast well known to the relatives of
of the deceased, and that three children the you
an infant, are the hone of the merriagnit
formal indictment, which was served on the
prisoner on the Bth of April, charges the husband
with having administered opium or some other
paean to his wife in an orange or in leesonader,
with having evinced towards her malice and ill-will,
with having falsely accused her of 'monstrous im-
moralities, and with having threatened to shoot her
and to poison her. The witnesses cited for the prosecu-
tion number 115 and the documentary and material
evidence oomarises 198 items. The latter includes
letters from e deceased to ber mother, Mrs. Dyer,
describing the treatment ohs received from her
busbend, and three policing of insurance on her Sh—
one for £l,OOO in her own name with the Accident
Insursnoe Association of Scotland ,• ,one also for £l,OOO
recently effected in the name of M. Chantrelle, and
one for £lOO in the name of "Mary Byrne," who wee
a domestic servant in the employment of the family.
It is surmised from the nature of these insurance* that
the intention was, in the first instance, to base the
defence on the plea of accidental death from poisoning
by mean' of the broken gas-pips, how broken remain,
to be proved. But the result of the pon.ssorteet
Investigation haa evidently knocked that plea on the
head; and it is now well understood that the strength
of the defence will lie in the allegation that Madame
Chantrelle was in the habit of taking narcotics, and
that the poison found in the stomach was self-
administered. In whatever light it may be viewed, it
I. ai case, and the trial cannot fail to reveal are
appalling state of domestic indiscretion and soda/
in sticky.

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LF.AOI7E.

The Annual Meeting of this Society was held on
Monday evening at Exeter Hall, under thawed=
of George Williams, Req., of St. Paul's arch
The Annual Report, submitted by the Secretary, Mr.
Rae, stated that the Temperance history of the year
had been marked by many briicatione of continued
and enduring prugrem. A publk meeting had Non
held in Exeter Rail, under the presidency of the
Bishop of Exeter, to advocate Temperance teachiag in
public elementary schools, and
bti,
the
os
sP,',=hdad4.lsres:Persacectioned by -the ficerool Board
London, and several provbacial School Board:
Deputestion" had addressed young DIM and women
sir=;.t six training colleges for teachers, and a
had delivered 475 addresses to children in
metropolitan Schools. A Conference had been held
with itlO members of the British Medical Amociation
at Manchester; and there was a similar meeting at
Leamington with 190 members and amodates of the
Sanitary Institute. Dr. Richardson had delivered
four lectures on "Practical Abstinence, sad the
difficulties that lie in the way of its attainment' and
there had bees 111111110•0011 oonferenose and meetings of
various kinds ; the president aka" having addressed 92
meetings in different parts of the country. There were
branches of the Lemnos on boardlo2 ships of
at
the Royal
Navy, and in many regimenta of the both
home asd aboard ,• the Indian Soldiers' Total badman*
Association having a membership of 9,746 mean.
The Leagues Annual Rite had been held at the Royal
Albert Hall, and the Royal Horticultural Gardens;
and It. Annual Sermons were preached at Weennineter
Abbey, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Bt. Clement
Danis' Church and the City Temple. The official
organ of the League, the Taspersem Record, was
warmly appreciated supporten of the canes in
every_ parts of Her ?el dominions ; and the
Make! Teasteersesce Journal published quarterly
was =y. valued by many ensnares of the Medical
nc,ition.s62.44lse.donatiom,7d.The, IntilludiggetWofsothellkmare.l-4461Ziin badsuinbecrip•b:y
Ms"ilyear. The was addressed by The
larhop of Gloocarter and Bristol The Lord Provost Collins. Gimsow ; Dr. Thomas Carson.
Liverpool ; Rev. G. a. Ramey, Reading; Mr. A. M.
Sullivan, M. P. ; Rev. Robert D. D. • The
,11,410 r of i Rev. J. Hunt , Richmond;
~••• t Yill4 Brighton; and Dr. B. W.
Rkhardson, r. R. &

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