The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

CRIME IN FRANCE,

The Court of Assizes of the Seine on Saturday tried a
young man named Bagot for a murderous assault on his own
father. It appeared from the indictment that the prisoner,
a man of brutal temper and drunken habits, had formerly
been in business as a carter, but having killed all his horses
by brutal treatment and neglect, he became dependent on
his father and mother, who willingly gave him food and
lodgings, but refused to supply him with money for drink-
ing. Ho Then endeavoured to enforce his demands by
violence, and on the 19th June, having asked
his mother for two francs, which she refuse' to
give hiiii, he was about to strike her, when his
father stepped between them. The brutal fellow immedi-
ately knocked him down by two blows with a heavy stick,
and continued kicking and beating him as he lay on the
ground. The father was so injured that he was obliged to
keep his bed for above twenty days, and a complaint hav-
ing been lodged with the police, the prisoner was arrested
and committed for trial. In court, the father and
mother were both anxious to withdraw the evidence
they had given before the examining magistrate inao;
mediately after the offence, and all the other witnt
the
were inclined to follow their example ; putuoe
for
judges, though willing to make every
parental feeling, would not allow the ends
°rojsecutor that
to be defeated. After a hint from the publidi°ePirpose the wit-
afillvatinee thus
any attempt to disguise the truth
wse°vuoral Persons gave
nesses to prosecution for periurh_harge against the pri-
evidence which clearly proved
found g'l
guilty and sentenced to
senor, who was accordingly
four years' imprisonment.
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master-painter, named Arnoult,
distributed an order of the Prefect of the Seine, with cer-
tain alterations made to suit his own purposes. The Pre-
fect's orders ed the proprietors of houses in certain
streetswhat they must repaint or whitewash the
specified
fronts of their houses within a certain time, as required by
law. The defendant had this document reprinted, with
alterations, extending its application to other streets
besides those mentioned in the original, and sent it to
the proprietors of the additional houses. Ho soon
after addressed his trade card to the same per-
sons, and sent agents to solicit their patronage.
Some of the parties went to the Prefecture to make inquiries
on the subject, and the trick was discovered. The defen-
dant maintained that the papers had not been distributed
by him or by his orders, but the police soon found the
printer who had supplied the circulars in question, although
his name had been cut off, and he at once identified the de-
fendant as the person for whom he had executed them.
The Tribunal declared the c'aarge fully proved, and con-
demned Arnoult to 25 days' imprisonment and 100 fr. fine.

DUEL IN MILAN.—The Pungolo of Milan states
that a duel took place on the Ist inst. between M.
Filippo Filippi and M. Matchovich, editor of the arcala
Politica, the motive baing an article published in that jour-
nal insulting M. Filippi. M. Matchovich declared that the
article was not from his pen, but that he took on himself
the responsibility of it, and a hostile meeting was accord-
ingly arranged. After an exchange of shots at 15 paces,
which led to no result, swords were rc,,ortod to, when M.
Filippi received a gash in the face extending from the ear
to the nose. M. Matchuvich received two slight wounds in
the arm. A reconciliation took place on the ground, the
editor declaring his regret at the article having appeared,