The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

PARIS.—We have to record another of those too fre-
quent cases of murder, followed by the suicide of the
perpetrator. Rose Lamurie, the wife of a horsebreaker
at Chaillot, about twenty-five years Rf age, had lived
separate from her husband for about two years with
their mutual consent, and has since lived in adultery,
with a coachman at Vaugirard, named Leal. Leal, how-
ever, was jealous and brutal, and viol6it quarrels re-
peatedly arose between them. On Thursday night Leal
returned. home drunk, and the neighbours above their
apartment soon afterwards heard the usual sounds of
high dispute, but were so accustomed to them that
.they
did not interfere. At four o'clock on Friday morning,
Rose came down stairs and went out, telling the portress
that she should never return. The whole of Friday
passed without her re appearance, nor was Leal seen to
leave his lodgings. On Saturday morning
.the commis-
sary of police was informed of the mysterious circum-
stances, and had the door of the apartment forced open.
Leal was found dead on the floor, with his skull frac-
tured, and other wounds in different parts of his body,
inflicted with a crow-bar. The bottom of 'the door had
been carefully stopped so as to prevent his blood from
flowing out beneath it on to the staircase. On endea-
vouring to trace Rose Lamurie, whose guilt could not
be doubted, it was ascertained that about eight on Fri-
day morning she went to her husband, whom, notwith-
standing their separation, she frequently visited, and
took her breakfast with him. During the meal she
talked of her miserable condition and her disgust of life,
and of the most easy means of self-destruction, expres-
sing her opinion that it was by strangulation. He re-
plied that he could not tell, for he had never tried any
one of them. On leaving her house, Rose Lamurie went
to Montmartre, where one of her sisters lives, but did
not see her, going instead to one of her neighbours and
saying that she would be absent several days, as she was
obliged to travel forty leagues from Paris to get some
money, requested her to take charge of a little favourite
dog. In the evening of the same day Rose's sister went
into her friend's lodgings, saw the little dog, and re-
ceived an account of what had passed on its being left.
Astonished at Rose's not calling upon her, and sus-
picious that all was not right, she went to their father
and mother at Vaugirard, where she arrived at the
moment the murder of Leal was discovered. As Rose
could nowhere be heard of, her father and sister went
to the Morgue, and there they found her lifeless corpse,
brought in under the name of Louise Rousseau, which
she had assumed on taking a small room in the Rue du
Rocher, where she had put an end to her life by suffo-
cation from the fumes of charcoal. She had left a note
taking leave of her family, asking pardon of her land-
lord for the trouble she would give him, and confessing
that she had murdered Leal, but protesting that it was
done unpremeditatedly in the madness of passion, ex-
cited by his brutal treatment of her. After having
lighted the brazier of charcoal, she hung herself on the
rod which supported the curtains of her bed, in order to
render assurance doubly sure.—Galignani.