The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

HORRID MURDER IN FRANCE,

The Gazette de Tribunaux gives the following details of
the murder in the Rue :dontniatre, the main facts of which
have already appeared in the Messenger :—" Relatisns of
business, which led at length to personal intimacy, had
existed between M. Lejeune and M. Jay, the latter of whom
has made his name we!l known by his mechanism, called
Jayotype,' for which he has taken out several patents. M.
Lejeune, who is a master tailor, is a remarkably good-look
ing man, about 28 years old. As to M. Jay he was tuned
of 40, and rather ill than good-looking. M. Lejeune, how-
ever, whose wile is young and pretty, had conceived a
jealousy of M. Jay. His suspicions, which were at first
vague, had latterly become more fixed, and to such an ex-
tent was his mind affected, that attic having broken off all
relations with M. Jay, he is said to have informed the cam-
miFsary of police of the quarter, that if he should ever find
M. Jay alone with his wife, he would proceed to the last ex-
&realities. Things were in this state when, on Tuesday
morning, M. Lejeune told his wife that he had received a
pressing order, which compelled him to set out immediately
for Rouen, and at about few in the afternoon he proposed
that his wife should accompany him as far as the railroad
station, in the Rue St. Lazare. She did so, and did not
leave him until she had seen hint take his seat in the train.
This pretended departure, however, was only a feint. which
has been practised by a thousand husbands, and which un-
tie tunately is almost always successful. Lejeune had no
sooner arrived at the first station of Asnieres, than he left the
Rouen train and returned to Paris by one from Versailles.
He proceeded to the Rue Neuve Vivienne, and placed him-
self in a position to watch the shop of M. Jay. We are in-
formed that whilst he was there watching, he saw a
letter delivered to M. Jay, which he concluded was from
Madame Lejeune. About nine o'clock in the evening M.
Jay, whose wife and children are in the country, left his
shop, and gave instructions to his shopmen, which indicated
that he would not return until a very late hour. He pro-
ceeded to the Rue Montmartre, followed by Lejeune, and
M. Jay having entered the house where Madame Lejeune
was, the husband after waiting some time went in also, and
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untouched. He then drew forth tweouteau poignard,
which he was in the habit of carrying in the pocket
of his paletot, and stabbed Monsieur Jay in the breast
several times. Monsieur Jay, attacked in his sleep, could
offer no resistance, and expired after uttering a few words
As to Mdme. Lejeune, she was more dead than alive, and
could rather imagine than see the scene that was passing.
When the unfortunate Jay was dead, Lejeune, who had in
some degree recovered from his fury, went down stairs and
sail to the porter of the house, "I have just killed my wife's
lover; go aid tell the Commissary of Police and the Procu-
reur du Roi that lam waiting for them." The porter went
instantly to the office of the commissary, M. Couesna, in the
Marche St Joseph, exactly opposite the house in which this
dreadful affair had taken place. When the commissary ar-
rived, Lejeune surrendered himself, and said he was ready to
answer ti,r what lie had done. The commissary placed a guard
aver him during the night, and on the following morning
emit him to the Pertecture of Police. In the course of the
day, the Pr,-,cureur Liu Roi had Lejeune brought to the house
and confronted with the dead body. He repeated his former
declaration with much valmness, and was then taken to the
prison of the Conciergerie." The Gazette des Tribunaux states
that Madame Lejeune has not been arrested, but is gone to
reside with her family.
Lejeune, alluded to above, appeared yesterday before the
Court of Assizes of the Seine as witness in a case of robbery.
He had been brought under guard from the Conciergerie to
give his evidence, which amounted to nothing. He is a
man of small stature, pale. and with fair hair. His appear-
ance is that of a German, and he speaks with a foreign
accent. He did not appear much cast down by the position
in which he is placed.

WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.— It is stated that Captain
Stewart, RN. (now acting pro tem.). is to be the permanent.
Captain Superintendent of her Majesty's dockyard, and that
Sir Francis Collier, C.l-1., will be appointed one of the junior
Lthds of the Admiralty.