The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

NUMEROUS MURDERS IN FRANCE.

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Crimea of the worst• character.-appear just now to be
rife in Fiance. "'Galignan, amongst its, record of
criminal proceedings, hue the following - -
Thursday was Marked at Parii by several crimes—a
murder, three attempts at murder, and an
_attempt at
suicide. A ropemaker, named Alder, a native of Beau-
vais, who lived with his wife at-263, Rue Saint Martin,
led for some time a very debauched life, and was in the
habit of ill-treating his wife when she would not, or
could not, give him money to continue his orgies.
On Thursday he returned home, and though his wife had
only been confined two days before, he peremptorily
called on his mother-in-law, who was in attendance on
her, to give him some money. The woman declared that
she had npne, and mildly reproached him with his bad
conduct. He flew into a furious rage, and snatching up a
long sharp knife, which happened to he lying on a table,
stabbed her with it in the throat. He then rushed into
the chamber of his wife, and attempted to stab her also ;
but, notwithstanding her weak state, she resisted, and
he only wounded her in the hand. The mother, though
covered with blood, caught hold of him, and.so enabled
the young woman to snatch up her child, and TALI down
stairs. The mother went after her, tint being exhausted
by the loss of blood, fell, and in a few minutes expired.
The man, with the knife in his hand, continued the pur-
suit of his wife, but the occupiers of the house rescued
her and secured him,. He expressed regret that he had
not killed both the women. I,94ged in a cell in
the guard-house o,f il±e P.,-*P. St. Lame, and shortly
after the noise of a body falling was heard. It was then
found that lie had attempted to hang himself by means
of a belt which he wore, but which proved insufficient
to bear his weight. He was sent to the Prefecture of
Police.

The second crime was this :—A mason, who livid_
with a female in the Rue de Menilmontant, hut who
often quarrelled with and ill-treated her, was
_heard
by the nciigtib.cml. sounting with her, and shortly
after the. noise of a nail being knocked into the
wall was likewise heard. Presently the man called two
of the neighbours into the room, and showed them the
female lying senseless on the bed, with her face and
neck covered with bruises, and h_ er. hairin disorder. He
moreover drew their a4tention to a large nail, to which
was suspended a piece of broken cord, and he said,
" You see-this wretched-creature has been attempting. to
commit suicide, in order. that I might be accused of her
death !" A medical man was sent for, and he succeeded.
in restoring the (emelt to consciousness. The mason
then began caressing the woman, and speaking more
kindly to her, but she declared that he had beaten
her in a savage manner, had attempted to strangle her
by pressure on the throat, and had then suspended her
by the neck to the nail, in order, no doubt, to make
it appear that she bad committed suicide. The man
was arrested. '

The third attempt' at murder was as follows :—.4
schoolmistress, Mlle. •Palmyre A—, of the. litle de la
Faisanderie, at passy; was op extremely bad terms sith
berlandlorci on account of his pressing her to pay her
Tent, for which she was -frequently in arrear. For the
quarter just expired she owed him 500 f., and as the
money was not forthcoming on the day it was
due, he sent her by a' huissier a notice to quit. To
that man she offered the money, but he declined to
receive it. She accordingly took it to the house of the
landlord, and when that gentleman at her request came
down to the lodge of the concierge to take it and give a
receipt, she suddenly drew a knife from her pocket and
stabbed him twice with great violence, intlictiw severe,
but it is belieyed pot fatal, wounds. She was imme-
diately arrested and sent to the Prefecture of Police.
The Conrt of Assizes of the Basses-Alpes has tried a
peasant named Miane, of Reillane, for murder. A
wealthy farmer named Megy, of that village, went on
the. 10th of January last to a fair at a distance, and as
at night he had not returned home at the time he was
expected, his family became alarmed, and after a while
sent one of the labourers to look for him. Thin map,
after going some distance along the mad lay which Megy
was to retwin, fetind his horse and cabriolet standing, and
the dead body of the man lying on the road, withhis legs
caught in the step of the vehicle. He conveyed the corpse
home, and it was then perceived that the man had been
killed by a ball from a pistol, which had entered his
back, and came out. at the neck in front. The money
he had received at the fair had not been taken from
• him, so that it was evident be bad been murdered, not
for the sake of robbery, but from personal animosq.
But the only person who bore him ill will was Miane,
his sonin-luvi ; a 4 the reason why that man did so was
that deceased had taken an active part in causing his
daughter to obtain from the courts a legal separation from
him, on aoeount of his.brutal treatment of her, and had,
on the separation being pronounced, received the young
woman into his house. Miane was therefore suspected ;
and it was soon ascertained that on several nights .
preceding the murder he had been loitering in the road
as if waiting for some one; that on the 'light of the
crime some persons had seen, him walking rapidly to-
t. 4 a qt qt whlc)4 the fatal shot was fixed, and
that one person coming from the fair in a cart, bad, by•
the light of his lantern, seen him standing behind a tree
at that spot; and had a few minutes afterwards heard.
the report of a pistol. • The prisoner in his-defence en-
deavoured to show that the murder had been gomnsitted
by one of his. labourers, who had (Wowed, but the
jury declared hiru gt:‘ikty, Cough with extenuating cir-
crstanoas, and the Oonrt condemned him to hard labour
for life.

A strange case of murder has been submitted to the
Court of Assizes of the Drome foundling who bore
the name of Jarvet was twenty-four years ago taken by
a peasant named Eysseric, of Moutaubaß, and brought
up as a member of his ftimilx. When he became old
enough to, earn his own living, he entered the service of
a farmer in the village, and by economy and good con-
duct saved up about 400 f. In 1858 he was comprised
in the conscription, and as at that time he was under
an engagement to be Married to Eysseries daughter,
he, without hesitation, confided to him his little for;.
tune, to take care of it until his period of service in the
army should be terminated, when he was to marry
the girl. He went into Italy with his regiment, and
was present at the battle of Solferino ; but some time
after he fell ill, and in March last obts4%ed a long leave
of absence. Just before this a sad piece of news
reache4 him—the girl had married another man. In
consequence he resolved on returning to Montauban,
but not to take up his residence with Eysseric and his
family. These people, however, met him at his entrance
into the village, and by professions of friendship induced
him to go to their house. This was on the 29th of March.
Several of the neighbours went in and remained
conversing with the
,young man until ten o'ciock at
night, when he retired to rest. The next day the neigh-
bours were astounded to hear that the young man had
been found dead in his bed. The Eysserics made hasty
preparations for the faneral, but the, authorities having
been called in examined the body, and f6una t,hat the
had been suffocated. In consequence, Eysseric and his
wife, their daughter, and her husband, one :Reynastd,
who had alone been in the house with the young mem.
on the preceding- night, were arrested ; and after a
while they confessed that the man had been murdered •
Reynaud, they atli , 114 d held his legs, and Eysseric's
wife his arms, whilst Eysseric himself had smatbered
him by thrusting his head into a sack, and then pressing
violently on the young man's face. As to the younger
ci
woman it did not appear that she had taken any active
part in the crime, but it was evident that she must have
been present or privy to it. The cause of the murder
was, that old Eysseric had spent the sum of money con-
fidedsonntflaw hi, feared
m by the
young man, and he, his wife, and
_i that restitution of it would be
demanded. The four persons were accused of murder,
but the younger woman was acquitted; the other three
were convicted with extenuating circumstances, and
were condemned : Eysseric to hard labour fOr life, and
the woman Eysseric and Reynaticr, each to twenty years
of the same piu4isimmt , •