The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

CURIOUS ROBBERY.

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Rather more than a month ago a young man named
Langlois, who was garcon de bureau to M. Bernard, an
agent d'affaires in the Rue Taranne, was tried for rob-
bing his master of a sum of 3,137 franc; and sentenced
to seven years' imprisonment. The circumstances of
the robbery were rather curious. Langlois, who did
not sleep at the house of his employer, but went there
early every morning, himself gave the alarm, and the
family, on quitting their beds, found the office in a state
of confusion, with stains of blood on the floor, chymical
matches lying about, and a window forced. Langlois
himself had done all this to make it appear that the place
had been entered by burglars, and that one of them had
been wounded in doing so. Langlois, however, overacted
his part so much that he was suspected and arrested. He
protested his innocence up to the moment of his con-
detonation ; but on the following day confessed his
guilt, and made some disclosures which led to the ar-
rest of his wife, a young and very pretty woman,
and her mother, whose name is Froment. They were
brought before the Court of Assizes charged
with having had a knowledge of the robbery,
and with having converted the proceeds of it
to their own use. It appeared from the evidence
that a few days before the trial of Langlois he revealed to
his brother, who had gone to see him in prison, that he
had really stolen the money, and in order to conceal it
from his wife and his mother-in-law, who he said would
soon have dissipated it, he had hired a room in the Rue
du Four, St. Germain, and had put it, with the exception
of 40 francs, which he had taken for immediate use, in
the chimney. He requested his brother to go to the
room and bring away the money, in order that he might
not lose it, and that, being found, it might not be evi-
dence against him. The brother refused, but impru-
dently mentioned the circumstance to the wife and
mother-in-law of the prisoner, who went to the room
and curried off the money. They would probably have
escaped detection, as Langlois, who had been informed
by his brother of what they had done, would not have
mentioned the circumstance to the authorities but for
the conduct of his wife, who whilst he was in prison led
a life of dissipation, and when applied to for as-
sistance to procure him a few comforts sent him
one franc. When the apartment in which the wife
and her mother lived was searched there was found a
quantity of linen, jewellery, &c., which they had pur-
chased with the proceeds of the robbery, and 300 francs
in gold. It was ascertained that the mother, who first
visited the room in the Rue du Four, had cheated
her daughter by abstracting nearly 1,000 francs from the
amount concealed by Langlois. As the evidence of
their guilt was so strong that denial was useless, they
male a confession, and threw themselves upon the
mercy of the Court, the mother pleading for indulgence
for her daughter, who,
she said, took no part in the
robbery, although she admitted that she subsequently
partook of the spoil, and the daughter imploring in-
dulgence for her mother on the ground of her having
three younger children entirely dependent upon her for
support. Langlois himself appeared as a witness against
the prisoners, and was very severe in his remarks upon
his wife ; her profligate conduct with other men, and the
wretched pittance that she had sent him in prison, hav-
ing rendered him furious against her, The jury found
both the women guilty. The Court, in its discretion,
lowered the punishment two degrees in favour of the
, mother, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment,
and inflicted the minimum punishment, two years' im-
prisonment on the daughter. The mother heard her
sentence without betraying any emotion, but the wife
fainted, and on her recovery uttered piercing cries.
The other children of the mother, who were in court
during the
Galignani's Messenger.
trial, were removed crying bitterly.--

MR. FORREST.—This ;entletnan has returned to
New York, where he is tow playing a round of cha-
racters. The journals of that city describe the night of
his first appearance, after his European tour, as being
one of great excitement md enthusiasm—proving the
extent of the estimation it which his histrionic talents
are held by his countrymer.
ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT FROM LOADED FIRE-
Anms.—Mrs. Wilson, aged sixty years, the wife of
Thomas Wilson, park-keeler, Carr House, at Stainton,
near Tickhill, was killed by the accidental discharge
of a loaded gun which ste was removing in her own
house on Saturday last. She died instantly.—Leeds
Intelligencer.