The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

Tho Court of Assizes at Geneva has kJ. 1,-•
occupied with the trial of the woman Jeans -•• I.
years of age, accused of having poisoned nine 11v7.,:.4
She was by occupation a suet-nurse, and this.'
opportunities of administering the deleteriotis
gradient which she employed—namely, atropine.
active principle of belladona. She does not s,pe►
to have had any personal dislike to her
but to have experienced a .trap delight in is- t-1 •sei:
their sufferings. She managed to precut,. • • !ri;
by feigning a weakness of sight and • . i.:,{
that she required it for her eyes. 1:-.
found in her possession to kill forty people. T. t
so many of her patients dying unexpectedly a: _
tracted attention, and the suspicions of tile d• •••
was attending the last case in which she was e=:-' T.!
being aroused, he took precautions, and she was it .u:
detected with the vials in her possession. [--poi: bvd:d
terrogated she at once admitted what she had .•
declared that she had onl given the narcotic o
and calm the sick under her care. The bosh., ::t
persons who have perished by her means
burned and a post-mortem examination MA :
scientif c evidence proving . that they Lid
from vegetable poison. The prisoner did not cat....
slightest emotion when brought into the pre•el:
col pees. On the trial her counsel argued that sh i vs, s
11101101111112111 C ; but the medical men who exanii:.,l
repeatedly during her incarceration declared that :•r..):;.•
of a highly nervous and excitable organisation. its 114
not of unsound mind, and was perfectly respono'..,
her acts ; neither was there, they said, any fo mast:
the pretended weakness of the eves. The prisouet
!named perfectly cool and collectea during the trial. tin:-
prepared with an answer to every question addressed
her. As was inevitable, she was fodud idity and art
tenced to twenty year' hard labour.

Tin. Morning Summary, a tory and high char:
paper, two or three weeks old. is no more. Td-d.sy
pumas must be contented with the older prints. A a.
fatality has been at work too among the scenic r;:hk
bons. The Censer, Toby, and Baster hare diserpert:
but the world seems none the gloomier.
A fine arts and industrial exhibition
opened on Monday nest in the New Mechsnies'
Bolton. Mr. A. Trollop* will preside at the 0pen...1:
The quartermaster of the let Life Guanii
Hanley) died suddenly at his reddened in W.. 0
evening.
Letters from Brussels gate that the
the Belgians is in an intereeting situation, .14 Vre:: ii 'at
sister-in-law. The rumour is current in all :he be-r:
of the capital.
The present year's effective for the sr.,:y
Prussia is Axed at 90,482 conscripts, of whJr.i
to be furnished by Prussia, and 10.390 by O.:, 7.4
confederation. The federal navy under the
ration is to consist of 23,000 sailors.
The hundredth anniversary of tl.e
Schleiermacher has just been celebrit Ni at Prede:
At a sale of musical instruments on
the Hotel Drouot, a violist by Stradivarius to
down for 964, a Bergonzi for W., and other. s: e-&!
moderate prices. Several bows by Latieer.
went very cheap, and a Tourte brought only
M. Eugdno Godard, the aeronaut. has ;-*.•:
summoned to Cherbourg, by order of the
Marine, to make experiments on his system of c,)
graph on board verge of the iron-clad
deaden of the minister is said to have been 2,.:ens,
by the moons of the trials made by Y. 1:. :0•11-1
kis wife at the camp of Mikes last summer. ,
BAD AND FATAL ACCIDINT ON NE ti;°''
WWl= Itan.w.tv.--Shortly after ailvh:es., l it it
day) morning the dead body of Mr. tla s
Great Western Railway at Salisbury. ws. ..„10
elate of the permanent way of the Grog
almost within tof the station. The
evielentlybowe rumen over by a train. for
sidasbilf and appeared to have bee' 1,7.,
yardcr two over the grans& Ile bad been dem:: es,rt;
for some days, endless, it is stated, in the hates
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up the line fbr exercise in the evening. The ."' 0.
removed to the Halfway lan to await an tni,is.
poor young fellow wee about 22 years of age. sui
of I Hill, of Devizes. root
AnVvras CRI3IILD IN. Titian
sis.i
Kussa.—A inslancholl di.aster has just o..eurn ►
Florae (Lorare). A small inn called Le. F.srinv•
the bottom of a mountain. was suddenly o%erelsoll'ir
a lAMB of rook which fell from above. Tire peroal 0•
at table In the kitchen at the time : Fran ••oi.
C:rhie wife, son, daughter. and •valat
oLiteivsd to extricate himself trona under ta,
of ruins without injury. but his wife, eon, and 411—
were all killed. The servant was but slightly alsr7g
Hamm roe Disuses or yrs ur:n.ll
Goeroweormee W.—Darise the week ending
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