The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-16 00:00:00

foreign intelligruct.

litsooLlldo Clllll ii FRANOIL—A trial, the details
of which are perfectly awful, has jut some of at
Toulouse. Bight some. were mewed of procuring
aborion and mersierins children. One Delnch,
celled the " Ogreere," Ind got off mos before when she
was tried for the murder of two women, who had
died under her operations. This she admitted with •
pleasing smile. She must indeed, be "Jeanie 9ki rig
a Jayne qmti plain ;" for slos grins end cries by turas,
and haa • pocket-handkerchief for mob operates. I
Havieg operated on her Own daughters and others, as
she openly
,admitted, Me then went into another
business. ' You devoted yourself to moths/ pre-
ferion ?" mid the magigtrate, mildly. "Yes, ws-
luckily, M ," U the reply. 'Cbildree were left in your
charge sod they disappeared?' "Yes, sir; but I was
not • free agent." " How did you kill these instated
Infants r " I wag not • free agent." "Tome children
were found alter they hid been dead two or three
Muer Yoe, sir; I kept oar for two or three dime at
the foot of my bed "You killed them by putting
their heads in a pail of grew. la it not Nor " Yes
sir." I cannot tradae, sod lam sure you would not
publish, the detail., for thee are not only sensational,
but dirty and disgusting. She chopped up one chili.
The Judge then ask., "You suffocated another?'
" Comme Tante, moo Dieu, ow." "Ye.'
, exactly the
same as the others." " And buried under the stair
ease r "Yea • dog a bola with • shoveL" Here sin
roared with "And the third Mild r "Oh;
always the same mention." The story is too dreadful.
She remind 1001, 11001, 5001, and undertook to send
the ohildrea to en Institution. She simply killed
them, and when me min asked him for his child or
his mosey, she and her accomplice arranged that
they would hand over " the loony they got for
the next" to the injured parent. Nies man!
"We agreed that the money we piped by the
next baby should he pad to H. Clary." Flew don't
think that any of the parties to them trans.otions
Were particular, or you will be deceived. "Then um
killed then nine children. Bet the. I. not all. You
she killed your greoddaughter You gave her
did you not T" "Si fat ; si hitt" (This is pleats'',
explained by the reporter •• an expresaiost Naiades%
to assent.) Madame Copse ins the agent who received
the child, and the two or three hundred francs; and,
having deducted • most liberal oommiroion, banded over
1001 (El) as the future provision for this wretched morsel
of hurosaity. " nd you thought that Delpech could briag
up a Mild £4 sterna r the judge might .611 ask.
With the samatann of the woroao Coyne in the ant
instance, .rd at • later period by heroern skill, Delpech
performed operations on a number of pregnant women ;
and it was in consequence of some rumour that she
pursued this trade, that suspicion fell upon her in the
saes of the two unfortunates whom death led to the
whole series of dialogues As the malt of her
imolessions the "Ogres." herself, her daughter, her
aster, the midwife Coyne, and four womose of
Yontautan, were placed upon their tria, as being
implicated, more or less directly, in the crime of the
principal author. In oommoo junkie to French
morality we ought to remember that the chief prisoners
belonged to a elms which has happily no parallel in
&misted. Oar abandoned wretches are hod enough.
Heaven know.; but as yet social reformers have not
contrived to consign any portion of the community to
the utter and hopeless degradation involved in the
Lamm to carry on crimes of which Delpech
eeknowledged het self—loatheome trades under the
surveilknee of the police. As to the guilt of the women
Delpech there could be no possibility of doubt, even
bed we not her own contomions. Nor was there any
good ground to imagine that the midwife Coyne, who
shared the profits of the baby-killing business did not ,
know perfectly well what brake* of the children. The I
women who were inculpated as having resorted to
Delpech and Coyne, thot they might be relieved from
the necessity of giving birth to their children made no
attempt to dispute their offence. One of them stated
fr.oily to the Judge, that "when you are in trouble
and here three children, and no bread for them, you do
many things you would not do otherwise ;" and the only
oomment of the presidia magistrate woo that "though
there are positions in life desterving of pity, yet the act
imputed to the witness is illegal, and cannot be
excused." With an English tribunal this French
Charlotte Winsor would have bad slender chance to
escape sentence of death. The only plea which could
be urged in her behalf was, thin she was out of her
right mind; and, in support of this pie., the single
piece of evidence was desoour in court Through-
out the tri.l she stinted an utter uneencern, and
laughed loudly at every fresh disclosers of her internees
practices. How far this behaviour WM a cure brutal
bravado, or sprang from • desire to ereate an impression
of madam it Is impassible to my on a mere paella at
the evidence. It is elem. however, that neither the
Judge nor the jury entertained any doubt of her whey
sanity. Indeed, the edema* who defended Dela&
abandoned the plea of insanity, and appealed to mos-
sidsratioos which would never dad • hearing in
an Beglieb court of law. He warned the lary that
if they found a verdict of" guilty with extenuating
circumstances," the worm that could be said was that
they were in favoor of the abolitia of capital mash-
meet, and, if se, they would be in excellent company.
He pleaded for mercy, on the ground that Delmobb
daughter would say, "Save my mother, because she is
my mother after all ;" sad he wand op by begging
the jury to reflect as Olt "unfortunate social position ol
the female eel." Alters somewhat similar hellion the
natal for Madame Boyer, ow of Delpeans customers,
made the following extraordiury appeal, which we
quite vsnisam from the reports ia the French capers:
Gelatinise of the jury, when I mall the number of
Delpeehhi Tabu, I ass amok bye remarkak
contrast. Justice asks, what has beam* of nine ,
children? I defend a mama who has given nine
children to society. I mason proclaim than all hers;
three are deed, but the other six are present Her%
rise up, childna of Madame Beyer, sad entreat thole/7
for your mother (the children of the mowed said op
sobbing); prove to them that Me is • good /soda
show how you love Ism." Her. "mmeation" wee felt
in tart, sod, in mosomesce of this appeal, as we mast ,
mope?", Boyer was found not guilty stream' I
still, extenuate,
_circumstances" wore found in the
eases of all the ebtof oulata. Helped' the "Ogre.."
was doomed to the galleys for life; Casa the midwife,
for ten year.; the other wawa received moaner of I
from four to ea pees hoprisosemma Whatever the,
French (midi" mar think of the result, we ea only skr
that, If the daiteride sold.blooded murder at afiantil,
for the sake of pusioislog the hard-earned pittances
of wretched motben, can be removed from the imagery
of capital Wears by say groats plead "alternating
aireunastaties," it is an Idle tanker, to retain punish-
ment by death In the writnina einde a France.
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Cavtortoo toe CSIVILTT TO Awsluta.— On Thurs-
day at Portsmouth Robert Stride. • esowlumper, wee
charged with cruelly ill-treating four caws sod a self
by keeping them without an adequate supply of hod,
The pantomime of the ems showed gross orator se the
part of the defeadat The defendant Asada guilty,
and said nothing in etlepanatioo of his emildnet, smart
that he bed to gist his living, sad did hb best to provide
the sows with food. The magletratee.geetessed hist
to three mouths' imprisonment with hard labour.
Wawa ow Tag Goopwrii BONDS: A Nome anima
—fibres owe e'en& on Thursday morning, while the I
whirl was blowing strati from Ca sorth-sook the
}lemmata if, boat, Bradford, Is tow of the steesser.
Aid, proeseded out in respooos to apes from the OuU
lightship (says Captain Shaw). On nearing the Goodwin
Sands a venal wee seen shore oa the north-west
epit
with • tar barrel herein, aa • signal of distrem The
We boat was thee Sowed to wiodwsrd of her sad
slipped ; sail wee made ma the boot, but when about 50
fotts off the the life boat struck Moe oasd
hemerily. The We boat Samuel Mambos
Oolliss. whisk Usher to the Life-boiss Society, hod
oleo woe out to the MiIiSIoSIFY of Tessa, NA she
likewise pomaded, the ma break( fearfully ever both
heat, bah their aohle mews nemakeed oedemata. The
gab el the hate wore lowered, and the arsettldro 1
saber ke go. Tbe mew of the Broadatairs life beet
took to their oars, bat is easeoltahal of Sbo 01101 *kb '
rumeng to the west-ward she drove 000strierably to
savor:l. Boon afterwenia the falling Weaseled the
Seaford to become hard sod fast oo the mad. The
crew of la 'treaded ship were ormanwhib shoat* for
seslsteaee and after some didloulty a line wee got front
the nisei to the life boat, mid a hawser haled ion
the Inter. A number of the Michael rues pleased
into the see, sad waded through the boar, surf (tOlb
the of the gable) and boarded the ship. The
li...lltrehiscr.revestad.
ind.ustrove.toldito
powtheirtu.histihota
vicarage
them blown( a gals from the northeast, and mash sto
Ihreakkg es the mad. As the tide Sowed the pump
war* omogooolly keelson& and sail was mode to faros
....s.e.etibe "1.14 °/". the sead,Ant without success. the
%but lee go soder foot, to b-iag her bead to,
the ocetlasude the veal striking very heavily, sad
throe hang too mai surf for the shwasser to spismilm
Alter peatlaw" lust risk the ship Nam Jost about
how o'elook an Thank, operaieg, whew shd was taken
is how by IhniZir, and brought ' into Bumph
harbor, she MOP, eehelly. She Wee ihe
whocwer bide of the Week, of Peassese, bead frost
ranioNi to Re* with a sup of logy,