The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

DAUGHTER.

MOW OUR OWN COl

PARIS, ad.TVADAT EVININO.

The trial of Madame and Mdlle. Lemoine will
probably not be concluded till Monday evening. A
telegram from Tours, dated this afternoon, reports a
piece of evidence favourable to the prisoners. A
Doctor Danyan has given his opinion that a frag-
ment of the skull found among the ashes belonged to
' a !cans of less than seven months. Hence M.
Lachaud will draw the inference that the mother's
story of the infant having been still-born is Erne.
This is, however, contrary to the confessions of
Angelina to the Judge of Instruction, and to a con-
siderable weight of testimony tending to show that
the infant was born alive and at the full period. The
witness who attempted to shoot himself with a pistol
is not much hurt, and gave evidence to-day.

SUNDA! EVINTNO.

The trial of Mdme. and '.Mlle. Lemoine is going
on this day (Sunday). We learn by telegraph that
the public prosecutor and M. Lachaud have finished
their speeches, and that the verdict will probably be
given at a very late hour this evening. The tele-
gram which I noticed yesterday, stating that
Dr. Duque had given his opinion that the piece
of skull bend in the ashes belonged to a fmtus of
lams than seven months, is not borne out by the
more detailed reports of the evidence. According
to the legal journal, the Gazette des Traumas, Dr.
Danyau, who is the principal surgeon of the Hospice
de la Maternite in Paris, said that it was very
difficult to say what the age of the foetus might be ;
that he had compared the bone with a collection of
fretus' heads kept at the Museum of the Jardin des
Plantes, and had arrived at the conclusion that it
"might" belong to a foetus of " from seven to eight"
months, " but that it might also be part of the head
of a child born at the full term." The Pr ease gives
an extract from a written report of the doctor, in
which he said that " the comparison of the deci-
metres of the surface of the curve with those of
bones of &corresponding character in foetus of different
ages had led him to think that if the fragment sub-
mitted tohim was the osfrontisof a human (Cetus, that
foetus had not reached the full terns of nine months.
But this opinion, which I express with all
the reserve due to the serious nature of the
mission confided to me, and the difficulty of the in-
vestigation, must be considered as expressing not
complete certainty, but only a great probability." It
therefore appears that Dr. Danyaa is not even cer-
tain that the morsel of bone examined was that of •
human subject at all (it was found in the ashes
among several bones of poultry), and further, that
assuming it to be one, hie opinion as to the age of
the fcetus of which it was a vestige is very hesi-
tating. The point is a most momentous one for the
prisoners, because there is a great deal of evidence
to show that Angelina was enceinte in November,
and that the accouchement, which took place
on July 30, was not premature. On the
other hand, should the jury give the accused
the benefit of the inclination of the doctor's opinion,
they may believe the mother's statement that her
daughter's labour pains came on quite unexpectedly,
and that the child was born dead. There are very
flagrant contradictions between the statements of
the mother and daughter. The latter confessed it was
agreed between herself and her mother to enter into
as few details as possible, and that she was to say
else had been violated, and that the child was born
dead. Angelina admitted in court that she had not
been violated, and also, though less distinctly than
she had done before the Judge of Instruction, that
her child moved after it was born.

THE VERDICT AND SENTENCE.
TOURS, SUNDAY EVINING,

The trial of the Lemoines for infanticide ter-
minated to-day. The jury acquitted Angelina
Lemon)°, but found her mother guilty, with ex-
tenuating circumstances. The sentence was twenty
years' hard labour.