The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-08-25 00:00:00

SHoCKING MATRWIDK

The French journals publish detail, of a horrible murder
which has just been committed in a farni.house near
rhateaudim (Eure-et Loir). The lsaiblinz had been
inhabited by a man and his wife named Plais, and their
daughter Mario, azed seventeen, resided with them: -
They had a aim Albin older, who worked at some distance
and did not lie at home. During the late war the 'create
visited tht fields of battle of a night and despoiled the died.
In that execrable pursuit they had succeeded hi amassing a
Mite money. Not long since the father died and the children
became 'inpatient to inherit the ill-gotten gains A few days
ago the mother wan taken unwell, and the win gave his sisters
quantity id matches to places in • bowl if warm water to
dissolve the phomhortut She obeyed his instructimis,illll when
the 'ld woman ask's! for a drink the young one gave her uric-
half of the liquid, acci 1111 l for the disagreeable taste by
saying that it was a polio the doctor had ordered. Madame
rhis drank it, and was imensilattly attac' ell with v hiked pains
in the stomach And threw it all up. The girl told her OW 111118 t
take the rest, which she did, but with a similar omit. In the
evening the young man caned, and, gliding the neither still
alive, he took a rope, threw it oyer a beam. and 'dams' the old
woman on a chair under it. Ile then passed the cord anoint
her neck, and putting one foot on her shoulder, he pulled at
thelend of the cord. The mor women struggled violently, hut
the milieu maintained his hold, and the dnadful scene lasted
• Intartfr if on hour before death "-smuts!. The girl shawl coolly
by all the tone, watchi.l...• the deathr (hoes id her neither. The
two together then suspeniloi the corpse to a beam, in order to
induce the belief that a suicide had been committed. However,
suspicion immediately full On the guilty ink, who were arrested,'
and • full confession was made by the girl.

ANOTHER BROOKLYN SCANDAL
Another scandal has just been brought up in the
Supreme Court of King's County. The plaintiff is Mr.
William W. Proctor, who seeks to recover 50,000 dole
damages from Mr. Samuel W. Lispsley, of the firm of
Limey and Razley. New York brokers, with whom the
wife of the plaintiff did business. The plainiff set forth
that his wife, when she called and placed dal& in
their hands, on are about February `A was induced by
the defendant to drink wine, and that while under its
influence he '011.41 her. It is also set forth that in the
interval between Feh 25 and May 2 last, at several time,.
and places, particularly in the office above named and in
the West Side Hotel, the same criminal course WAN pursued
by the amused, and on each occasion wine was used aft the
means whereby Lapsley was enabled to accomplish his
designs. It is also claimed by the injured husband that
• certain Mrs. Fanny ItoseutlialL the who of Mr. Robert
Rneenthall, of New York, was taken to the office of the
defendant and other places, and both ladies rendered
helpless from the effeets of wine. A general denial ou
the part of the defendant is get up in answer.

MR. CIDGER AND THE MUSIC-HALL "SCAMP.
Visitors to Holborn Muidellall bare been lately
entertained by n Mr. Almalermott, made up to imitate
Odner, the politician, mincing " The Scamp," and "The
Snob." The former matting these