The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

CRIME IN FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes of the Indre has just tried
a man named Gaumy, charged with attempting to
rob and murder a farmer named Debourges, re-
siding at Thavenetso. Gaumy's wife, and their
son, a lad thirteen years of age, were also charged
as accomplices in the attempt to rob. On the 29th
July last, Debourges perceived that a quantity of
wheat sheaves had been stolen from his fields, and
the next night he and his son determined to keep
watch and catch the thief if possible. They ac-
cordingly concealed themselves in a thick hedge, the
son armed with a gun and the father with a pitch-
fork. About midnight they saw three persons enter
the field, and recognised them as the prisoners, who
had been long known to live by plunder, as the
father had already been condemned four times for
thefts, and was well known to be a desperate cha-
racter. While the thieves were collecting their load,
young Debourges took aim at the father, and pulled
the trigger, but the cap only exploded, and the threA3
prisoners, on hearing the noise, took to fight. Whilovertook the
e
his son ran after Gaumy, Debourgee
Meanwhile the son returned from pursuing Gaumy,
woman, and secured her after some resistance.
and told his father that he feared the latter would
soon return with his gun and murder one or both
of them. He had scarcely spoken when two shots
were fired from a hedge about ten paces distant, and
Debourges fell seriously wounded in the abdomen old
chest, both shots baying struck him. Hie wounds„
however, did not prove fatal, but he will feel
their effects as long as he lives. Gaumy and the
two other prisoners were arrested next day. In
court the elder male prisoner behaved with the ut-
most hardihood, contradicting and threatening al
the witnesses. The woman pretended to be deaf
and dumb, and gave no answer to the President's
questions. As the evidence was conclusive, till
jury at once returned a verdict of guilty against
three, and the Court sentenced Gaurny
"otnalemf,
labour for life, his wife to five years'
The moment
ilraaPral house of.
and ordered their son to be detainre.d
correct* until hie tvventieth yea
iofirinity, but began to eon-
pretended to have
he husband.
the sentence wasp ronounced the man no longer
verse eagerly with

the jot of the executions I:a that BD
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EXEcVTIoN OF S) THE LITERrOOL
ivitriarzitEn•---On Saturday, at noon, the fourth cud.
arose out of tho last assizes
wafi carried into effect at the Lancashirecounty gaol,
Thomas Edwards, who was found guilty
upon
uno
undoubted
evidence of the wilful murder of Isabella Togue.
LAYING OF THE TELEGRAPH CABLE BETWEUS
CAGLIARI AND SICILY.—The Hawthorne, screw.
steamer, from Cagliari, has arriTed at Maretimo Island, 12
miles from Sicily, having laid the cable successfully to that
port. She was ordered thence to Malta, to ship additional
cable required to complete the line to Sicily, the ship having
been taken out of her course by currents.
ORIGIN or PETROLEUM.—In Ametica an oil has,
been for many years collected by the Seneca Indians
for medical purposes, chiefly as a stimulating embrocation;
but the first discovery of a largo supply was made in 1559,
when a vein was opened in boring in search of a salt springi;
The supply was at first apparently inexhaustible ; one "e,
alone is stated to have yielded 7,000 gallons per daj',. null,
another to have discharged 100 gallons a minute. A large
part of that which was first produced ran to.waste, fl Om the
imposEibility of procuring vessels to contain it.; so. that)
eventually, the whole district became odorous with oil, the
very ground being sticky with it, and. every object wad
contaminated. It was said that the oil was everywhere;
that it was tasted in the beer, and flavoured even in th
whisky; that it might be smelt
in the bread, and eaten its
the bacon; that the very sheets were oily ; that the wato
given you to wash in
.had a -film on the surface, and that
the towel left an oily deposit on your face.—Oil Track:

.Revoir.
Although the precise day is not yet fixed upott
for the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, we are enabled to state that this important even
will most likely take place at the latter end of the montli
of 'lB.reh.—Coort Joiongt.