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London, England, 1826-02-10 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS COMBINATION OF CRIMAS.

[From the Journal der Debeir of Monday.]
Tile Conn of A Ming of •Melon wine occupied on Ilse 8:13 or
February with a cause presenting est atrocity* combination
crimui: •

—. . .
The riminals are four itoutuber. ' The* arc Glf .V.e. rho
is fifty-five years of age • Champy, a vino.diraier, tyrant roars
of age ; hts wife, 47 t anti Monchsin. a farmer, a* r
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individual is accused of three mordsts,which hare isiont.d
Ape death of six persor.a.
Is
gsqlleu4ll.4vilat lar%sat the aia of ti
t far twelve yeaes'irtloithu ar; lobini bery"xidconaealnraitedtedtuoisdarilir
vay anstawating circumstances. Vseswother condrinnatioos ad.', it
I tc. 11,c drat prolonged his punishment tilt 11320, and .7,t that peri..l
1 he was pot cn am t.tWaste.: in the atmandissementa of
.Poistni. A..it
m awe.. 'Guillaume, to tiays wprt:tenco for travelling to the n*' -
holiraig rill:twit, took the character of a taaveliiiltelealor in o;.!
cent tee. -He tent 'Aso to Paris, where he reartivW. hie acquaititivee
, with Ids. rid .assoctutea at West. Of these.Fier Nathan. ati c:+
I Pedlar, anti Bailie. a taiisititk, were Itia pieta pat esiinjaanicias, oral
it was by their „means that hie crimes were at leno,th 41,scorreted.
kinillautne was writing desfolinwios letter whcu tlie paws/241,WD
came to arrest Lim 4
Aly Heat Cousin—) y snisjettunel Li:timing every dal, have
at length arlaced me tri the,. mot crud of ill innaljant• .1t it all
Motx^uia a fault. lam arrested every di, 0 have spent all mr
means, wishing so avoid, but no longor tilde to conml, the truth.
When f hit you, you told mete aural but miss I am forced to du,
so, If f cadmic() the puaistraent,-114si also hava the two thou.
sand franca Which we agreed upon. %lips do not know any thing
egaSiiiiiiilit'i: Lagleti4lllr,_4ol6/2. Ec!!Pl _roPtbsir,:l.beaa

great eciesigire..—
ale tatlitti;;;ls !loadsthreatens wee on that se-
count--_,., I wish that I may. aot beige without money • for we
were ribtigral to be accomplices in the Asir of the wateau atempy.
Your nesperty, that of Champy. that of your elAldren would no
be entlici_gra to discharge the e•tpeaaea, though .iming, with our
heels. 'Think well on this. When you have attended, Tea my
letter, and couaideree it well, burn it; 'that Is: fet your Own
Mteres:. At all evtats, when I .write you I shall glee no par-
drillers but abate money. But remember, it [haul not the
enemy in six days after the date of this letter. I shall 600f1 have
my neck in the lueels of the Procureur du Roe."
The explaaetion of all these horrible Mysteries IQ be faded in
the sequel.
On leaving the galleys at Brest Gillaume was on en intimate
footing .with his neighbours. Champy an 113ouchain, in his native
place Prnvitts. Criampy had conceived a fixed aversion against liie
witr, and several anecdotes were told in confirmation of this by his.
neighbours. On the 27;h of July, 1820, the wife of Champy
wished to go to see eitime artificial fire-works. The husband te-
fused, bet the a oman Mouchain was heard to say, that the best way
would be to take her there, throw her from the bridge into the wa-
ter, and then ran away. The same evening Guillaume aupped ttiM
fflottehain, and Champy came in while they were at table. Ile
was ray much enraged against his wife; and coming up to Guil-
laume he tapped him on the shoulder, and added.. "My dear
cousin,- I would give '2o louis to be rid of this baggage, and to sew
bee dead." They drank togethg the rut of the evening. and on.
separating, Champ', again saint, " I would give :two thousand
francs to be rid of her." Nett morning both Wife and child
were de ul. Champy himself found the child In the cistern, and
his wile was found hanged in the coa.house. Manj eppestanoes
showed that the woman had not destroyed hentelf- liflto was am
weak and nervous that she could not tie the strings of.hir barmy..
It visa not till live years after that th,a letter of GuMaurne led ton
the discovery at the perpetrators. Tice presumptions affordesl by
it were conhented by the mutual recriminations of the parties. The.
wotr.an Mouchaia states that a month after the runnier, seeing
Champy very touch distressed, she asked the reason. " have
grad reason." said he ; " I consented m. the murder of ray wife it
is Inc.a but I did not desire him to kill my child." "It was Be.
asseary„"anaweree the woman eleuchain, •• to save year own life."
Thus, say the articles of accuaatioa the whole was a destestabha
scheme, cancer:Nl by Guillaume, M olichain. his wife, and Choloilles.
ot to sacrifice the child with the mher that it might be said that the
'woman Champy, after having killed ;me daughter had put an end tat
her own lite in a tit of despair. This was the rumour which they
circulated. Several witnesses have besides deposed to their having
seen Guillaume, with two accomplices, in Champy's yard at One
time of the murder, endeaeouring to get out by a small barn door.
Guilleauute denies all these circumstances, and maintains that.
his only design in the letter was to benefit society, by discovering;
the nianierers of the woman Champy and her child.
After the murder Guillaume continued at Provins till 20th May„
1822. in the interval he was tried foe robbery in the
.tlepsztmedb
of the Seine and Marne, rted acquitted for want of evidence. Scarce
had he escaped tram the hands of justice when a new crime
was committed in the environs of his residence. The details are-
horrib ie.
Cashier mid hie -safe. the oraels and the other GS years of egg,
kept a small inn in a remote situation, and received all who arkee
for lodgings with too much facility ; they were supposed to have
some money in their house. On the Nth of October, 1821, their;
house remained shut, and it was not till next day that the noise.
made by the dog and cows alarmed the neighbours, who perceived,.
on looking through, the traces of a recent robbery, and the bodice
of the inmates were found in the cellar.
The wife, -in her_ usual dress, was thrown on the ground, with
her head in a basin of : her husband by her side, with hie
feet at her shoulders, and his head also leaning an a vessel full of
milk. Stains of blood were perceived on the bed-clothes, and Me
of the sheets had tire or six holes niade with a aliarp lot-Acumen-
The wedical men proved that the husband had received five
aqua% and the wife 43, of which only one was mortal, and al!
made with a sharp instrument. An individual who
bee ion was arrested, but without any result. Millet, a
epalave, received, about this time, some iuterrnatinn
fr me which be did not communicate to the police till too
,y
* His account is as follows :—Guillaume entered the inn alone,
and asked the wife for a bottle of wine. \Veilst she was in tt
cellar he aimed at the husband, who was in bed, a blow with a
sharp instrument similar to those used by saddlers. Believing tuna
to be dead, lie wet down to the cellar, and struck the wife serve!
blows with the same instrument; but he was obliged to repeat his
blows, as the weapon dropped from his hands. The husband,
who was only wounded, dragged himself to the cellar at the cries
of his wife, upon which Onellaume dispatched him, and afterwards
completed the destruction of the wife. lie then robbed the house.
and found to his regret that 80 or 90 francs were the only retard o'
his crimes, lie immediately returned to Proving, and washed.
away the blood, taking care to throw the water out of his window.-
on seine women who were below, to enable him to peeve an a/31 .e
suspicion should fall upon him.
These circumstances agree so well with the facts of this case,
that the narrator must either have been the murderer, or his accom-
plice. Guillaume even insinuates that he was the assassin; but it
has been proved that Blitheness then at Peelle.
In last February he lived at Loribeux, and often evaded VII
vigilance of the police. On the Bth of (larch, at eight in e,
morning he came to the house of Cain Nathan, a Jew. in Parrs.
who had been a galley slave, and told him he was going es a
campaign twelve or fifteen leagues from Paris, saying f.e
wanted money, showing hint a poniard which he car-
ried with hint, and the form of which the Jew particu-
larly observed. The latter also observed his dress, and several
witnesses deposed that they saw a person answering to his &fere
tion in different places. At seven o'clock in the evening a laboeten
called Ruesignol was going to super, when he heard his fatherat-
law Buyer, a schoolmaster of Cnatres, groaning as he opened
door, and calling out, " Help ! friends, help ! I am attacked I::
my house ; run to my wife ; she cannot cans to me." Raesign.a
armed himself and reached the garden hedge, when he perceived
his mother in-law stretched on the ground covered with blood.
On-asking her who had pat her in that condition she answersd
"Guillaume." "What Guillaume?" said Rosaignol, "Guillaume
of Livardy ?"—" No." " War it Guillaume of Leribaus
". Yes," said she, •" the wretch." Many neighbours running us
the house, found the-street-door open, and every thing underwurlien
within. The soup was on the table and the bread on the ground.
On questioning the dying woman, bee answer still was, that the
assassin was Guillaume of Joribaux. Both husband and wife pe-
rished. the homier having received seven wounds, the wife titre
The husband only said, " Children, I am killed." Nothing lvel
been carried away from the house but a silver watch. The wound,
Reenter& to have been made with an instrument similar to that tie-
scribetby the Jew. Traces el shoe nails were perceived across the
fields, notwithstanding the difficulty of discovering any such marks,
in consequence of the crowds who came to see the bodies. At six
o'clock on the morning of the 18th of Marcia Guillaume arrived at
the house of Cain Nathan, and gave him an acemiorot his expedi-
tion :—" I ant lost, my friend," said he; " I missed my aim t qty
poniard broke in my hand. I wished to kill the master amid mis-
tress of a little inn, but my poniard broke., The people were
alarmed by the noise. I have walked all night, and arrived at
Paris at fuur o'clock."

Guillaume had then a wound in hie left arm, which was stilt
hie, ding. Nathan went immediately to give information to the
police of thew facts, and a variety of circumstances tended at once
to fix the crime upon Guillaume.
According to Baillet and Nathan, the life of labia criinirtal luta
only beta a tiasue of robberies and murders. A vast nun.b,•r of
other critues are said to have been committed by him, all of waists
he persists io denying.

A balloon, with a card attached to it, on which was
written, " Rverton, A o'clock, 'Thursday evening, 115th
January. 1r.26," was picked np at Crouton banks, about
two miles front North ltleols, un the same evening, at
about ten minutes before nine.—Lieerpool C'earter•
Irit• A\ 1' I I D r.-4)n Tuesday last, the body of a meir
infant was discovered in the Regent's Canal, under circum-
stances which gave every reason to apprehend 'that it hal
been unfairly dealt with ; an inquiry was in consequence
set on foot, to ascertain, if possible. who were its parents;
this however filled, and or
yesterday
than was taken. The jury rem a veTtlies dr;," wilfulrTieevening in
murder against some person or person, Unknown.

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