The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

FRENCH POLICE CASES.

A well-dressed man, wearing the ribbon of a
foreign order at his button-hole, went a few days ago to the tij
shop of X. Mantas, baker, at St. Denis, and announcing St.
that he was about to establish a boarding -ehool in the /m
neighbourhood, made arrangements f r the supply of 100 fi'
loaves of bread a day. said that he should make a rule 1,7
of paying cash, and he particularly requirsted the baker to so
write receipts to his bills the moment the money was given. bt.
To prevent any attempt, he said, at fraud en the part of his 3
servants, he asked M. liftman for a specimen of bis writing, eft
and the baker wrote his name and the date of the month ~'
on one of his bill-heads, allowing the stranger to take with
him another. Strove leaving, the stranger asked the baker At,
whether he supplied any other boardingischool in the tli
neighbourhood, and the tradesmen anseered that the school 00
adMdme. Male, in the rue des Ursulineo, was supplied by IL..
blu. Shortly after the stranger went to Haar. Male, and
passeated to her • written request tram the baker for aloes o
a ma, on the ground that his wife had gone away with to
Oa key of his essh-bon. The request was written beneath 10
coca the bill-head+ of the baker, and the signature was St.
essenutly his. The lady, without hesitation, gave the ta
gamey bat it subsequently turned out that she had been ID
debsaded. A complaint was made to the police, and .11.1
WO making an active search after the man. It aware that U.
he has recently committed several robberies in the same
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The Tribunal of Correcticsal Polio recently tried
woman named Leraire, communal schoolmistress et Pa- ui:
tesaz, mad bar husband, for having brutally intuited her it,
ilawsliter. It Ina proved that she had made it eoastant 6
pigmies of beetles the child is a usage manner with rods
vl
sei whips, and of prevent's( her from having auticiest
sL Oee of the witnesses gave curious explanation of 7
Ike weveree washy She told me," said she, " that to
yin eimakalle she was struck with terror on seeing in a at.
alma* saloon represeutlnga saint covered with the skin S.
ea wild animsb and that the consequent* was that her
Mild whoa bora was covered with hair. Thu canoed her to r•
dislike the child. But," added the witness with great o;
stained, "I must state one thing in the woman's favour, Mo
and that is, that when her husband, finding that the child U
wee earned with hair, proposed to have her exhibited for ao
mosey es a mistily, and with that view ceased her to be U.
*mot three times in order to make the hair thicker, she g
mail so bear of anything of the kind." The Trib, nal to
gnuswoman to six =Wale imprisonment aid 2ofr.
there was no evidence against Me nue, he was et.
acqeitted. 30
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DARING GAROTTE AIMADLT AND ROBBERT.—A
wet daring garotte assault and robbery wee peeps Wind in
Histelsosentown oa the night of Moods,. About sine
o'clock a respectable woman, aimed 11.1Leasie, was pro-
ceeding home up Hospital.street, tarrying with her some
provisionit g, when, opposita to elms 52, she was suddenly
datehed by some persons who steed inside, and who proved
to benne men, sad, she thinks, a female. They dragged
her hots the close, put a plena( square auk into her month,
sad as soon es she clenched the cork in her teeth, sad IL
elated her lips on it, one of the assailants pressed his band
OS her mouth, the others flied her bands together by MPliell
Of • piece of white tape, and is this state she wee snatched 60
up and placed flat oa her fan on the posed, end before u
dm amid siet with
and give an aliens the robbers were oir„ it
Wiwi married with them two bundles she had with her, it
sae aostaisiag lime and the other oatmeal, the ring from
a ter Anger, and one in mossy, which she bad !
gimped between bar open hand and a glove, to get at which,
dreg with the ring, it was neeneary to pall off the glove. I
Another woman had seen three suspicious ItAinr men
larking shoat the locality a short time previous to the
inittorry, which is said by the woman to have beer. wilt
✓apidly and deals: oul y assionspl Med.—Waggon) Dash
Nish
TIM CHINA PEA.—Elperkinenn are about to be i
Bade in si departments of France to naturalise e
softies of pea peculiar to Chin from/etwh yields both oil sad
Hoar. The oil scarcely dilren at of colas or ripo-
sted, and the Chintes see it largely in their culinary preps
rations. The fine is made Late a paste, which, after having
bees lett to ferment. le seneemmi with oil, pepper, salt, or
giber iagredients. It hatielbsg, is • few days, of a brownish
681011 r, end possesses ozeolient digestive gualiti s. 8 • pre-
pared, it is /umber dear, bit die pester clams* merely fry the
paste is oil, end it is sold gs diem in slims in the markets.
TM preparations of the all end pests of the pee in qaestion
10 n breach of ladling in sewed provinces ; but it is at
Ping-Po, 'aphid of Clisitess, that it i chi.dy carried on.
livery year, in fact, thounamie d knobs, freighted with the
name and oil, leave Mugge for the different ports of the
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