The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

SHOCKING MURDERS IN PARIS.
(nom 0111 owls COHILINIPONDIGIT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The France adds to its information of yesterday,
on the subject of the new press law, that although
the inviolability of deputies will remain as at
present, the position of *est (manager) of a
journal is to be declared incompatible with the
mandate of a deputy. Something of this kind was,
I believe, proposed in 1849, but not adopted. The
France further says that the principle of common
law will be maintained in favour of journals, which
renders a judgment for misdemeanour inexecut-
able so long as an appeal is pending. The draft of
the bill is expected to be finally settled by the
Emperor in the Council of State to-morrow.
The rumour that the present stamp duty of 6c.
is to continue causes great dissatisfaction among
Paris editors.

A milder was committed this morning at No.
13, Rue Fontaine-Saint-Georges. A man who had
passed the night with a girl living in that house
left at 6 in the morning, telling the concierge
that he was in a hurry to catch a train. In the
course of the day the girl was found dead in her
bed ; the carotid artery had been cut through with
some sharp instrument. No further details are yet
known.

The assassin Lemaire, who, on Dec. 20, mur-
dered a laundress named Bainville,whom his father
was about to marry, was brought to the bar of the
Assize Court of the Seine to take his trial to-day.
The facts charged in the indictment were all
admitted by the prisoner with a cynical
frankness almost unparalleled, and which caused
a thrill of horror in court. The prisoner
lived with his father in a house, No. 10,
Rue de Chartres, La Chapelle, Paris, which belongs
to the latter in fee simple. Lemaire senior is a
locksmith, and his son assisted him in the business.
He was always an idle fellow ; and when his
mother died in 1865 he said, in answer to some
observation of his father about the necessity of
attending to business, that it would be easier now
since there was one mouth leas to feed. Last
autumn Lemaire senior, though 68 years of age,
determined to marry again. He proposed to, and
was accepted by, Madame Bainville, a laundress,
who rented a set of apartments in his house, where
she lived with her daughter, agirl of 17, ands young
apprentice. The marriage was fixed to take place
on Dec. 22. On Dec. 20 young Lemaire (aged 19),
having ascertained that his father was gone out to
dine with a friend, told Madame Bainville that his
father wanted to speak to her, and by that means
induced her to accompany him to the rooms occu-
pied by the Lemaires. As soon as she got inside
he shut the outer door and attempted to pass a
rope round her neck, with which he intended to
hang her to a strong nail, which he had already
driven into a wall for the purpose. She resisted
sufficiently to prevent him from fastening the
rope, and thereupon he took a poniard, also in
readiness, and stabbed her in twenty places, ex-1
claiming repeatedly that although she would not be
hanged she should die all the same, and that he
would stick her till the loss of blood carried her
off. The screams of the unfortunate woman
alarmed the concierge and other inmates of the
house. She contrived to stagger to the door,
which she opened, and then fell dead on the stair-
case, at the feet of the persons who came to her
assistance. The murderer was secured immedi-
ately. He confessed before the Judge of Instruc-
tion, and repeated the confession on his trial, that
his intention was, after hanging Madame Bain-
villa, to get her daughter and apprentice suc-
cessively
into his room and dispose of them :
in the same way. He hoped to effect the three
murders without noise. Then he would have I I
laid in wait for his father's coming home and
murdered him. After that he would have taken

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