The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

Did he make any complaint?—He made no complaint.
Colonel Crawley—What was the room used for in which
the sentries were placed ? A servant's room, and for holdinn
saddlery.

Colonel Crawley said he wished to know whether the pro_
sccution intended to eNatitine any more sentries in reference
to the annoyance caused to Mrs. Lilley. If not, he was con.
tent to rest his case on that point where it stood.
Sir A. llorstord said the prosecution thought it IntwiFe
to
rsay more about their mode of conducting the prosecutions
Ihe Court shortly afterwards adjourned.
HOMICIDE BY AN OFFICER,

The Military Tribunal:fTa-l—ris on Tuesday tried
Lieutenant Fleury,
thlieeof 28,
gu 4th Regiment of Volti.
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murdered, on the 18th
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time,
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be briefly stated as followstl
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Cou,h,h the
the prisoner, when
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Cherbourg, saw the woman
and at once conceived a strong passion
returned in the evening with the intention
ob-
taining an interview. In this he succeeded, anti
was chagrined to learn that she was married' and.'
had a husband living, who was a painter
mb
This discovery, however, did nut deter hi
saw her again on the following day, and she then
o
consented to visit him at his own lodgings. she
kept her word, and remained with him alone for
several hours. A day or two later the prisoner went
to the woman's shop, under the pretext of having
linen to wash, and was introduced to her husband.
From that time he spent all his leisure hours at the
shop, often going in full unitorm, and sometimes
stayed all night, sleeping on a bed made up tau
purpose tor him in the same room where the wife
and her husband slept. This continued for two
months, when the woman persuaded him to leave
his lodging in the Rue de Vienne, and to partiallz,
furnish au apartment which he had hired in the Rue
St. Nicolas, and from which they atterwards re-
moved to the Rue Laborde. Here they led a very
tatitteeirndmedistbryeststese. prisoonnesro'smfe.rioefndths,esaeccotmh
gay life, frequently giving parties which were
p occasionsAugust,ecli tbhhyi e
her conduct Icnonn
especiallyd Pucc ti towardsexcitedthe prisoner's jealousy by
casetthhee onaal
nte visitors.
the 9th
when a lieutenant named Giuganti and his
mistress wile present. Tne prisoner was so much
offended on this occasion that ha even threotened
to cease all connection with her, and even wrote
to his rather for m
his accounts with her, o
ney
to enable him to settle
Unfortunately the money
was refused, and the prisoner's resolve to break with
his mistress was not carried into execution. On the
contrsry, his infatuation became
and the woman irritated him
greater than ever,
more
and more by
having rendezvous the object ofwhich
she refused
to explain. On the morning at the 18
pro-
mised to be at home when he came, but 18th
she
Wa
and he then learned from one of her washs womenaent)
that she was out with a gentleman. A few el
later he saw her alight from a hackney coach antut"
end of the passage, and he received her with trhen
re-
proaches, which she answered in the most offensive
manner. She even told her work women that if
Bebe (such was the nickname given to the prisoner
at the shop) were ever troublesome they must smack
his face and turn him out. Peace, however, was
restored by the arrival of a stranger, and the pri-
soner afterwards asked pardon for the language ho
had used, and said that he would come and take her
out for a walk in the evening. She replied that she
would not go with him, as she had an engagement
which she intended to keep, but would not say will
whom. The prisoner then exclaimed—" I will take
care to prevent your going." He soon afterwards
withdrew, but returned just before eight in the
evening. After his arrival, the four women who
were ironing in the shop fancied they smelt gun-
powder, and one of them went out to see if any boys
were letting off crackers in the street. The prisoner
appeared to take no notice of what had been said.
About 9 o'clock the woman Petit seeing Lieutenant
Giuganti passing before the shop, calved him and
said, " How proud you are, wont you come in and.
kiss rue ?" Giuganti did as she wished, and after-
! wards asked tier to go with him and the prisoner
to the latter's lodgings, which she refused, saying
that she had an engagement elsewhere. About ten
the woman Petit sent one of her women atter a man
who had just passed the door. Ia a minute the mes-
senger returned and said that the gentleman was
waiting for her mistress in the Rue d'Anjou. The
latter was going out at the back door, when the pri-
soner seized her by the band to detain her. She re.
f used to stop, and he then discharged a pistol at her
head. The ball did nat penetrate the skull but
stunned her, and, leaning on a table, she exclaimed
—" My sight is going. . . ." She had scarcely
uttered these words when the prisoner stabbed her
to the heart, and, rushing out into the street, gave
himself up into the custody of a sergent de ville.
Giuganti, who was present when the pistol was
fired, seemed to have lost his wits, for instead of
arresting the murderer he ran away as fast as he
could. All these facts were fully established by
the evidence given in court, and the only doubtful
points were whether the murder was premeditated,
and whether the prisoner was insane at the time, A.
great many witnesses deposed that his family, both.
on the father's and mother's side, were subject to in.
sanity. His two grandmothers had died raving mad,
and he has a sister at the present moment in a
luna-
tic asylum who fancies that she is the spouse
of
Jesus Christ, and has been told so by an angel
The
medical witnesses who gave evidence re -
specting the
prisoner's sanity all agreed that, Whatever he •
might
have been at the moment of the crime, he has not
been mad since. The prisoner's counsel (M. Lau-
chaud) endeavoured to show that the disease here-
ditary in his client's family might reasonably be
supposed to have been the
cause of the crime. The
Tribanai, however, did not consider such to be the
case, for it declared the prisoner guilty of wilful
murder, and unanimously condemned him to 20
military years' hard labour, degradation, and to bo
under the Bury •ii
ei an
ee of the police for
Galignani.

Bank of England Return,•--Yesterday.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
eq. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day
Lit Dec., 1863: