The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

EVENING ED:TION.

TRAGIC 0 c Cul.e W 1! 1E IN
AMERICA. • ---.
(From the New York Morning Herald, Juju: 9.44
ALALA MA, MAY IG.—The murder ci Adelpits
Adrien, a gentleman from France, who has hcc,i, re-
cently passing- thrt.vgh the Uei!ed States, txhiLitlog
feats of sleight of hand, beg.g.irs ail dc.,:crip!icr., and is
without a parallel in the history of civilized men.-
arrived in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, on.the
30th of April, and procured a warehouse for the pur-
pose of his exhibitons. While cletueing tali the room,
his attention we:s draw:! to !he az:tions of a Wot:an vii:o
resided on tlie oppasite side of' the strcet, surh
kissing he: hand t) into, cutting his ri,:me cut of fl:e
kissl2g it, puttir.g it into 1:,:r bosoio, ainft
thro;vi:;g the r,:netti,ier of the big es or into the
stre,q. He iinini.diately inquired through in-

un:xcq:itt!nied

terpretcr, for
lat:guage, who occupied toe nnuse ; ar,tl Ling-
informed that I) eter al'Lr(i,l, a gentleman
resf)ec!ni):::ty, i;v..d tt.ere, lie, as Of route:',
thought it exie sq.:l:v.l that such conduct illotaid
have been exl,ibitcd to Lim trtina the wife of the Dacter,
but from every eir._,uitisiance 4Je Lave reason to believe
that it TV:IS not long before he learned her character,
which had been for ye:l;s procinua to tnne Cif a
questionablq nature ; by her nearest reiativea she bad
been forsaken, though her husband still ac&u
her as his wife ; and it i 3 said, believed her to be shin-
dared, and free from all e roes.
The next day, however, the unfortunate Adrian ro
ceived a note from her, which she threw from the be!-
cony of her house into the street, and in picking it up
he found, in language too strong to be misunderstood,
her warm affection fur him, and requesting him to
answer it., and giving him directions how to convey it
to her. Ho answered it, and this brought about a cor-
respondence which continued for several days, during
which time she wrote to him that she had lost al! affec-
tion for her husband, and that she had determined to
remain with him no longer, and proposed to hire to take
her cif. Hs reluctantly consented to do se ; though.
,during this whole period, from the affidavit of his in-
terpreter, he had never been in her presence, but after
every arrangement was made, he went to her house
alone, and remained -not longer than five minutes.
Everything then being in readiness, she was con-
ducted to the boat, at her request the evening before.
They were to start the next morning, but, unfortu-
nately for the seduced stranger, she had disclosed her
designs to a former acquaintance, which led to their
detection. From that acquaintance the facts were
communicated to her husband.

About eight o'clock that evening the alarm was
given, ar.d a search was immediately made, but for
some time to r,o purpose. Dr. M`Lcod, then, in con-
nexion with his relations, went to the Montgomery
Hall, and inquired for Adrien's room ; they entered it,
and broke open his trunk and Mrs. M4leod's, which,
it seems, had been sent there. They then left ; shortly
after Adrien, with his interpreter, came in, having
spent the evening at a respectable private house, and
finding the trunks open, he suspected that he had boext
detected, and iwmediately left for the woods. In his
escape he lost his hat. He had scarcely left the house
before his pursuers returned, arrested, the interpreter,
tied him up to the bed-post, and, with a pistol at his
breast, made him divulge the whole secret. They then
went to the boat, found her locked up in her berth,
fast asleep, and took her out and carried her to her
lather's, where she has been closely confined since.
Next morninr, they armed themselves, and started.
out in search ofeAdrien, and after some time they heard
of him directing his course towaids Selma, when Dr.
M‘Leod, attended by Mr. R. E Cox, a druggist of
Montgomery, started after him, and at the river, nine

macs from Montgomery, they came up to him under
the following circumstances. Just before air.* arrived
at the ferry, Dr. M‘Lood fell back, and o,x went up