The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-31 00:00:00

BROMLEY SPRING MEETING.-THIS DAY

DIY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
WELTER CUP.

• I

Baron'
Abbotsford
Pauua

Six rau.

SELLING HURDLE.

..... 3

Fleetwing
Madame St. Germains . . 2

BROMLEY PLATE.

Breach of Promise .

Bliss.— ...... —......
Capsicum......
, '

3

Seven ran.
TRIAL STAKES.

(Mere et Belle
Deceitful
Golden Hair

Four ran.

RAILWAY STEEPLECHASE.

Saturnalia

3

Tempest •
3
Gentleman

Eight rau.
SPRING CUP.

Sir Robert

Carlos
3
Abbotsford •••• 000

Eleven ran.
BICKLEY S fAKES.
Athens beat Repose.
RACING PLATE.

Elungerford 1
•
Feemy
3
Robert Laundrie

Eight ran.

CITY BETTING.—TuIs DAY.
CHESTER CUP.
3to 1 agst Sabinus (offered-100 to 30 taken)
400 to 200 agst Sabinus with a start (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
11 to 2 agst Astolfo (offered)
10 to 1 agst Stanley (taken and offered):
1000 to 80 agst Camel (offered)
100 to 7 agst Normanby (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst King o' Scots (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Claudius (offered)
DERBY.
11 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered)
20 to 1 agst Macgregor (taken and offered)
e 5 to 1 agst Claudius (taken)
2000 to 50 agst Palmerston (taken)
Bto 1 agst Claudius 1,2, 3 (taken)

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-
MENTS.
March 25, at 9 a.m., Una, out of St. Albans engagements.
March 25, at 9 a.m., Sulphur, out of City and Suburban
Handicap.
March 26, at 9 a.m., Veda and Rho, out of Bromley en-
gagements.
March 26, at 2 p.m., All M. Shicirler's horses, out of City
and Suburban Handicap.
March 26, at 2 p.m., Badsworth, Jersey, and Linsey
Woolsey, cut of Epsom engagements.
3larch 26, after 6 p.m., St. Mungo, out of Chester Cup.
March 28, at 9 a.m., Ladas and Panopticon, out of Epsom
engagements.
March 28, at J a.m., Rattlopate and Ashfield, out of City
and Suburban handicap.
March 28, at 9 a.m., Ashfield, out of Prince of Wales's
Stakes at Epsom.
March 28, at 9 a.m., Elferon, Tit-bit, Filou, and Gondolier,
out of Epsom Spring engagements.
March 28, at 9 a.m., Orne, Ada Penelope, and Iron Mask,
out of Cheltenham Handicap Steeplechase.
March 28, at 9 a.m., Nuage, out of all engagements in
1870.
March 28, at 1.55 p.m., c by Claret, out of Fox, Taber-
nacle, and Cocoa Nut, out of the City and Suburban Handi-
cap.
March 28, at 1.55 p.m., Betty, out of tho Stamford Plate at

Epsom.
March 28, at 3.20 p.m., Vandenhoff and Van Amburgh, out
of the City and Suburban Handicap.
March`2B, at 3 25 p.m., Dr Wilson, out of the Hurdle race
(first day) at Bromley.
March 28, after 6 p.m., Flying Scud, out of Bromley en-
gagements.
March 29, at 9 a.m., Consternation, out of City and Subur-
ban Handicap.
March 29, at 9 a.m., Albania, out of the Great Metropli-
tan Handicap and Chester Cup.
March 29, at 9 a.m., Salliet, out of the Heathcote Plato,
Epsom.
March 29, at 9 a.m., Keystone, out of the Grand Annual
Steeplechase at Cheltenham.
March 29, at 9 a.m., Double Event, out of Wost Drayton
engagements.
March 29, at 0.10 p.m., Prince Imperial, out of the Spencer
Plate at Northampton.
March 29, at 2.37 p.m., Captivator, out of the City and
Suburban Handicap.
March 29, at 4.15 p.m., Captivator, out of the Great Me-
tropolitan Handicap.
March 30, at 1.50 p.m., Lifobuoy, out of Granby Handi-
cap, Croxton Park.
March 30, at 3.20 p.m , Vandenhoff, out of tho Chester
Cup, 2,000 gs Stakes, and Epsom Derby.
March 30, at 3.20 p.m., Van Amburgh, out of all handi-
caps for which the weights have been published.

The following names have been given :—Mr. Hugh
O'Beirne's ch yearling filly by Master Richard, out of Rose-
bud, by Roebuck, Pauline ; Mr. Caush's br c by Dundee, out
of Perfection, 2 yrs, Dunkeld.

FLAT RACIY

Croxton Park 1
Northampton 5, 6
West Drayton 7, 8
T h i f s k 7, 8
Liverpool Hunt 9
Durham 18, 19
Lichfield .. .... lB, 19

1 FLICTURES.
IIL.
Knighton 19, 20
Newmarket C 18 to 22
Catterick Bridgo 21, 22
Abergavenny 91, 22
Eastbourne ....................25
Cardiff 26, 27
I Croydon 2B, 29

A NEW TROPPMANN.

The Court of Assizes in Hainaut has just concluded tfie
trial of Dessous le Moustier, a criminal who rivals Tropp-
mann in the character of his offences. He is charged with
five murders and numerous robberies and forgeries. The in-
dictment against the prisoner sets forth that the three
brothers Thirion, residing in the Belgian Luxemburg were
partners, and trading in cattle. All three were at the inn
of St. Barbe on March 12, 1868, and left on that day. 4
Two of them disappeared from that time and the third
came back on the Ist of April to the suburb of ifavre,in Mous,
andleft on the 3rd. He, too, was missed from that day. The
Procureur du Roi was informed of the affair, and inquiries
were made in all directions, but in vain. The police of
France, Holland, and Belgium were applied to but with!
no success. The truth was that Dessous le Moustier had
murdered them, and the bodies of two of them were in the
old well in the yard of his house. The third was in a holel
by the wall of his sheepfold. The prisoner had had some
money transactions with the brothers Thirion, and had ;
evidently murdered them for the purpose of becoming
possessed of their property. His next victims were his ,
wife and his father-in-law, whom he feared because they
knew of his crime. He administered poison to .
his wife, who gradually sank, but not before
the suspicions of the doctor were aroused. His
father -in - law had died the preceding winter,
and the poisoning of the wife having
.excited the suspicion
of the magistrates, his body was disinterred and arsenic,
was found. Therefore Jacques Dessous-le-Moustier, alias'
Charles, was accused-Ist, of having at Hornn, on the 13th
of March, 1868, wilfully murdered Nicholas Thirion, and;
robbed him of certain valuables, among them of a sum of '
£6O ; 2nd, of having, at Hornn, on the 15th of March,
1868, wilfully murdered Gustave Thirion, and robbed him
of certain valuables, among them a promissory note of •
£6 • 3rd, of having, at Hornn, on the 4th of April,.lB6B,
wilfully murdered Pierre Joseph Thirion, and robbed him
of certain valuables, among them about £2OO in gold and
notes; 4th, of having, at Hornn, in December, 1868, wil-
fully murdered 3. B. Havrez by the administration of
arsenic ; sth, of having, at Hornn, in October, 1869,1
wilfully murdered his legitimate wife, born Florence;
Havrez, by the administration of arsenic ; 6th, of having
forged a promissory note for £4O, dated Ath, October
1869, bearing the forged signature of Louis Loisselet, and '
discounted that forged note in October, 1869. On Monday
the trial was finished. The jury were of opinion that the
crimes were premeditated. They did not believe the pri-
soner guilty of poisoning his father-in-law. The prisoner .
received his sentence with a smile. The court pronounced
judgment, and sentenced Dessous-le-Moustiet to death,
and condemned him to pay the costs of the trial. The
prisoner left the court laughing.

Mr. James Ashbury, the owner of the schooner yaciip
Cambria, has written another letter to the Times on
the subject of the challenge which Mr. Douglas, the
owner of the Sappho, gave to all England. Mr. Ashbury
has offered Mr. Douglas the choice of six series of
races, and Mr. Douglas has accepted three races of 60
miles dead to windward and back in the Channel; no
Adition or time allowances. Mr. Ashbury remarks that
the question at issue is not which vessel, American nr
English, is best off the wind. but which is the best on a
wind, and the series of races to windward on and about
the Ist of May will probably settle this point in a eon-
elusive manner, nothwithstanding his disadvantage and
the disparity in size between the Sappho and the
Cambria—the former being from 380 to 400 tons, as
against 188*