The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-06 00:00:00

ANOTHER FRENCH TRIAL.

The Pierre Bonapaete nine days' wonder has given place
In France to another absorbing topic in the shape of a case,
less tragic, but more mysterious than the Victor Noir
affair, now being tried before the Civil Tribunal of the
Seine.' This is an action for " sequestration "—the French
for illegal imprisonment—brought by a certain M. Teulat
against Prince Raymond de Broglie and a medical man,
Dr. Gerard de Cailleux. M. Tetilatrtheplaintiff, is WU.
a young man ; being - a good scholar;:,- he—hail em-
braced private tutorship, and in the course of the year
1865 he became private resident tutor to the children of
Prince Auguste de Broglie, brother of the defendant,
nephew to the late, and cousin to the present duke.
For three years he continued on the best terms with
the family ; Prince Anguste,,whose health was very bad,
breathed his last, but M. Teulat continued to discharge
his professional duties, but suddenly he was dismissed by
the widowed princess, for what reason did not transpire.
A few months later M. Teulat, who had found another
berth, was arrested, taken to the Prefecture de Police,
where he was detained for several days, and then
examined by a Dr. Lassegne, who certified that he was
labouring under " partial delirium," and had him confined
at the St. Anne Lunatic Asylum. The directorof this
establishment, after carefully observing his conduct for
about a week, came to the conclusion that he ryas per-
fectly sane, and offered to release him, provided he under-
took to leave Paris immediately. M. Teulat refused to,
make any such undertaking. He was thereupon trans •
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ferred to another madhouse, where, after a little time, a!
similar proposal was made him,which he equally persisted'
in declining. He remained in this asylum until the 26th'
of March, when he was dismissed precisely in
the same condition as he was when first kidnapped,
and without (according to his own account),
having been subjected to any treatment whatever.
Such are the facts of the case as the plaintiff puts it. He
claims from Prince Raymond de Broglie £4,000 damages.
M. Teulat alleges that it was he who had him kidnapped
and sequestrated, as described above," without even con-
sulting the Princess Auguste de Broglie, his . former,
employer, now deceased, as well as her husband."'
But the watchful exponent of French... nip-.
teries, the Figaro, assures us that there is
much more to be revealed. Though the lively Paris
newspaper professes to be chary of dealing with such a
subject, the Prince and Princess Auguste de Broglie being
both dead, yet it intimates that M. Teulat, as it appears
from his own letters, was deeply in love with the Princess„,
and the case will probably turn on the issue whether the
violence of his passion had temporarily bereft him of his
senses, and driven the young widow's brother-in-law,
Prince Raymond, to the strong measure of
having M.
.Teulat locked up in a mad-
house 'to (protect her from the amorous tutor's im-
portunities. The Figaro, notwithstanding its "chariness,"
treats the public to one very strange scene. In 1807.
Prince Auguste de Broglie was labouring under a very
dangerous disease of the chest, and required his doctors to
tell him the real truth as to his chances of recovery. The
physicians recommended his going to Nice, but confessed
that the only possible result of the journey would be
to prolong his life by a few months. Under these
circumstances the Prince declined to leave Paris,:
preferring to die in his own house, and have his'
wife and children near him to the last. The Princess was'
duly informed of the critics) state of her husband, and in',
an agony of despair withdrew to her own room to coin-
mumcate the sad tidings to her family. She was seated!
at her desk writing, when she heard the door open ; she'
looked up, and seeing it Was only M. Teulat, the tutor,
resumed her writing. Suddenly she felt a pair
of burning lips pressed to her cheek her
children's tutor had embraced her ! The young
Princess started angrily from her seat and made for the,
bell, but M. Teulat fell on his knees before her, Implored'
her forgiveness, and obtained it. The Princess, on the
advice of her confessor, acquainted her husband, who also
was magnanimous enough to forgive the mad tutor, and
to shake hands with him before he died. M.
Teulat continued to educate the Prince's sons
and it would seem that he renewed his advances as ulti-
mately Madame Auguste de Broglie had to dismiss him ;
and a few weeks later he was kidnapped and immured in
a lunatic asylum as described above. Previously to his
arrest, it is said he had been summoned to the office of
M. Mettetal, the head of the municipal police, and ordered
,o leave Paris, and that it was on his refusal that helves
lodged in a lunatic asylum on the strength of a medical
certificate.

bUICIDE AT DURHAM.—A. shocking case of suicide
occurred at Durham on Saturday afternoon. •It seems
that in December last a young man, named Josiah
Rig-nell, son of a livery stable-keener living at Croydon, left
home, taking with him a companion and a sum of £450, the
moneys of his father. Since that time the youth was
robbed of £3OO of the £l5O by his companion, and he him-
self had been living in Durham. Having run through his
money, he was taken before the local magistrates on
Saturday by the hotel keeper with whom he had been
staying, but acquitted of any criminal offence. On the
same morning he received a telegram from his father,
warning him against returning home, and the two circum-
stances together so weighed on the young man's mind that
he placed himself in front an coming train, near the rail-
way station, and was literally cut in pieces.

Mr. Alexander Richards, a gentleman of independen...
property, was returning with his wife and friend
from a fishing excursion at Nanteos; near Aberystwith,
when the horse bolted, and Mr. and Mrs. Richards were
thrown from the carriage. Mr: Richards was picked up
senseless, and died on Tuesday morning. His wife is in 5
precarious state, and their friend much injured.
SUPERSTITION IN 'lB7o.—At the Hanley
Police-
court the other day a woman named Gibbons, a witness
in a felony case, refused to take the oath until she had.
been ordered into custody, the reason given being that she
was pre ant, and taking the of weuhl prejulli
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