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London, England, 1822-08-15 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, AUGUST 11.

the Constitutionnel contains the following ac-
count of a liortible murder committed, u it is sup•
posed, by a priest, from the Mayor of the Commune
w liege the critue took place:— . . _

" On Monday, May 2, 1822, in the afternoon,
111. M• • °, ecclesiastic, of the age of 08, Care of
Quentin•sur-Isere, went to the house of a young
woman, whose trsgicol end I annoonced in my notice
of June 5 (Marie Germ, whose married name was
Charnalei), and remain. d there about two hours.
This woman, who was very pious, was to have gone
the next day to communicate at Veury, a neigh..
blurs.% pariah, where the fit-at commuuton of cila-
ntro was to take place, and it appears that the Cure
appointed her an hour to hear her in confession io
the evening. She was seen entering the church
about six in the evening; she went in alone, end
was not seen to tome out.

" About half-past four o'clock in the morning, an
inhabitant of the town, descending towards the plaits
by r path, not frequented at night, perceived a lit-
tle from it, and about t.'o hundred yards from the
parsoosge, blood in abundance, a penknife stuck
in the ground, and a ►tnug, shout IliZ metres lung,
bath bloody. to the same plaice were found togs of
limb and some fragments of bone. Traces of blood
led other persons to the bank of the Isere, where
the neckerchief of the unhappy woman was recog-
ward, without doubt placed there to give rise to the
idea that she had drowned herself. The idea of asses.
staation occurred to no one in a country which, in the
memory of man, had got been stained by soy crime.
Suicide was thought of. It was imagined, contrary
to all probability, that after having stabbed herself
with the knife (which was afterwards recognized as
sot belonging to her), she had preserved strength
to go and throw herself into the Isere. It is MA
paces frog the place where the knife was found to

the.bink of the isew, *Left the necteichief vat.

" Toe despair of the woman was explained by
the great rigour of the Cure in confession; and it
was imagined, that having been refused absolution,
she had destroyed herself. Her death was said to
be the work of the devil, and credulity and supei.
tuition propagated the story. On the 161 h of the
tame month, however, the character of the terror
that was created was changed. when some shepherds
discovered in a creek of the Isere, two hunched
paces Poll the place where the neckerchief was
found, the thteit and the left leg of the victim. On
the Thureday following, the day of the Ascension,
the bust wits found about six leagues below St.
Quentin. The idea) ity was established.
" It appears hence certain, that the body of' the
victim was carried whole by the assassin to the place
where the rope and knife were found-, and that he
there dismembered the body 1
" On Friday, May 17, about ten in the morn-
ing, the gendarmerie came to St. Quentin, sod went
to the parsonage to make invoingations. Almost
immediately after the departure of the gendarmes
the Cure went off himself, and the same day gained
Les Echelles, 8 frollllrf of Savoy. lie was arrest•
ed a few days after and conducted to the prisons of
Chanthery, where he remains &word. No other
inhabitant of St. Quentin has left it since May N.
I could eater into other details—speak of groans
heard the evening of the name day in the neigh-
bourhood of the chinch. But the procedure will
undoubtedly dissipate the dam knees in which crime
would envelope itself.
(Signed) " Davis, Mayor."

We are somewhat ►urprised (says the Constitu-
Simone!) at learning that a man accused of so exe-
crable a crime has not yet been delivered up. The
Piedmontese Government made no difficulty in
giving up Didier, an cused of a political conspi-
racy ls it that men accused of murders
that make one shuddrr appear leas dangerous than
those cast forth by our sad civil dissentious?

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