The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

THE BLEEDING PICTURE
IMPOSTURE.
TRIAL OF ROSE TAMISIER.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
Rose Tamisier, the female arrested on a charge of
having by a pretended miracle at St. Saturnin, near
Apt, committed what the law calls " an outrage on
objects of religious worship," was brought to trial
four days ago before the Tribunal of Correctional
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judges. It was proved by several witnesses that
Rose had always pretended to possess the power of
working miracles. To one witness she once showed
a letter which she said had been written by
a person who could neither rcad nor write,
and that person, she declared, had been
miraculously endowed with the facility of writ-
ing in consequence of her prayers. To another wit-
ness she asserted that she had on a particular occasion
been surrounded with great light from heaven at
Cadenet. To a third she said that she had once, when
in the convent of Sallons, planted a cabbage by the
command of heaven, and that in a few days it grew
to such a vast size that all the persons in the convent
were able to make a dinner of it. The cure of
Saignon deposed that he had known Rose Tawisier
for 15 years, and had always noticed in her a
marked tendency to piety and mysticism. In Aug.,
1850, she told him that she had miraculously received
the sacrament in the parish church ; and on going to
the tabernacle of the altar he found that the con-
secrated wafer had disappeared. On two subse-
quent occasions the consecrated wafer again
vanished, and Rose pretended that she had again
miraculously communicated. He therefore removed
the key of the tabernacle, and forbade her to
approach the altar ; he also directed his vicaire not to
say mass at the principal altar; but nevertheless the
consecrated wafer was then taken away, and he could
not discover that any second key to the tabernacle
existed. Oa going to the church one morning, he was
surprised to find the tabernacle open, two candles on
the altar lighted, and Rose prostrate on the ground.l
In answer to his questions, she said that the candles had
become lighted of themselves, that the tabernacle had
voluntarily opened, that she had felt herself fixed to the
ground at some distance from the altar, and that the
consecrated wafer had then advanced slowly to her
mouth. About the same time she pretended to have
marks of a miraculous character on her breast, and
to prove this assertion, she produced her linen, which
bore some stains representing the Virgin Mary, and,
at others, a crown of thorns. He took measures tc
ascertain whether she had not so marked her linen,
but without success. One day before celebrating
mass, he ordered Rose to place a piece of clean linen
to her breast, and not to leave the church without his
permission. When the mass was over, he called her
to the vestry and made her produce the linen ; to his
astonishment it bore the figure of the Virgin. By
direction of the Archbishop, he directed her to pray to
God that the marks on her breast might be removed;
and in a few days afterwards they disappeared. The
vicaire of Saignon, after deposing to the repeated
disappearances of the consecrated wafer, stated that in
the month of October last he had to say mass one
morning at five o'clock, and expressed to Rose the fear
that be might not awake in time. Rose answered, " I
will have you awakened." The next morning he was
aroused from his sleep by three blows struck on his
night-table, and at the same time he heard distant
music. A moment after the clock struck five. lhe
next day he said to Rose, " You forgot to awaken
me ?" She answered, "I had you awakened by my
guardian angel !" The witness added that another
miracle ascribed to Rose was that she had caused
buttons to be sent to him in a strange way, to repair
his coat. The fact was that he had found the buttons
in his apartment, and that no one could tell how they
came there. But be attached no importance to
that fact, and considered it a joke. M. Massie,
a landowner at Saignon, said that the vicaire had
called him an atheist, and an infidel, for not be-
lieving in the reality of Rose's miracles, and had
announced to him that still more extraordinary
things would soon be witnessed. Madame Fereire,
a sister of the Order of the Presentation de la Marie,
called in religion Sister Sainte-Leonarde, stated that
she witnessed some of Rose's miracles, and had not
believed in them. She had warned her to be prudent
in her conduct. Several other witnesses then deposed
that Rose had made extraordinary statements to them,
had pretended to be in frequent communication with
the Hely Virgin, to have peculiar marks on her
breast, &c. One said that an intimate friend of Rose
had assured her that one day, as two females were
passing the church of St. Saturnin, they felt them-
selves irresistibly attracted to the interior, and, on
kneeling before a picture, saw blood flow from it.
At this stage of the evidence the tribunal adjourned.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
DEATH FROM DRINKING.---011 Saturday Mr. W.
Carter held an inquest at the Ship and Mermaid
Tavern, Snow's•fieids, Bermondsey, on the body of
Mary Sullivan, aged fifty-seven, who, it was alleged,
died from violence. The deceased resided in the no-
torious place called the Camperdown, or Rookery,
chiefly iahabited by the low Irish people. A few
nights since the deceased returned home very much
intoxicated, and when her daughter awoke she found
her in a kneeling position by the side of her bed,
with her head resting upon her arms. She was
raised, but she was quite dead. Her left eye was
much swollen and contused. The jury returned a
verdict—That the deceased died from excessive
drinking of ardent spirits. At the close of the in-
quiry the whole of the jury complained in strong
terms respecting the abominable nuisance the inhabi-
tants were subjected to by the continual dis-
turbances which took place in the Camperdown,
the foot passengers being unable to pass without being
molested.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE AT BANKSIDE.—OH
Satur-
day an inquest was gone into before Mr. W. Carter,
the Surrey coroner, at the Smith's Arms Tavern,
Park-street, Bankside, Southwark, on the body of
Henry William Scholefield, aged forty-three, butcher,
who committed suicide by cutting his throat.
The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.
FRIGHTFUL OCCUERENCE.—A long inquiry was
gone into by Mr. Bedford, the coroner, on Friday
night, at the Westminster Hospital, on the body of
William James Giles, aged eight years.
The lad's death was caused in the same extraor-
dinary manner as that of Mr. Tomlin, the barrister,
of Paper-buildings, Temple, which caused a great
sensation a few months back.
It appeared by the testimony of a resident in the
house, that the boy lived with his parents at 41,
Vine-street, Westminster, and on the night of Tues-
day last was heard running down stairs. The noise
suddenly ceasing, the wife of the witness exclaimed,
"My God, he has got out of the window 1" and
when they went to look in the yard there the poor
lad was found lying in an insensible state on the
stone paving beneath. He was taken to the 'West-
minster Hospital, and seen by Mr. Purdy, the house
surgeon, who discovered a fracture of the skull,
from which and laceration of the brain he subse-
quently died.
Mr. Crow, the constable, stated that the part at
which the deceased must have gone out was at the
top of the landing ; be was only surprised no one had
gone before, so dangerous was it.
The jury returned a verdiet—That the deceased
died from injuries caused by accidentally falling from
an unprotected window.
FRIGHTFUL DEATH FROM SONNAMDULISM.-011
Saturday Mr. Carter held an inquest at the Rose
Tavern, Richmond-street, East-lane, Walworth, as
to the death of Mrs. Mary Johnson, aged 91, an in-
dependent lady, lately residing at No. 11, Richmond-
street, who died under the following shocking cir-
cumstances :—The deceased was a widow lady under
the care of a nurse, and on Wednesday night, by
some means left her sleeping apartment, and wandered
about the upper part of the house as she had done
before. At an early hour on Thursday morning a
young man heard a heavy fall, and when he looked
into the street he saw the deceased lying on the
pavement in a state of nudity. Mr. M. H. Perritt,
the surgeon, was called, but the deceased, who had
sustained a dislocation of the spinal column, expired
in half an hour afterwards. The deceased had walked
out of one of the windows on the second floor, as the
flower pots were found: removed, and the, window
wide open.
The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
AWFUL DEATH OF A FARMER WHILE SHOOTING.
—An inquest was taken on Friday evening by Mr.
W. Carter, the Surrey coroner, in a small cottage at
Chepstead, near Reigate, on the body of Mr. James
Sharman, aged 26, a farmer. The deceased was out
on his estate with two dogs, on Thursday last; he
levelled his double-barrelled gun, and fired at a covey
of partridges. The report was heard by a shepherd's
boy, who went to the field, and saw the deceased
lying face downwards with a dog by his side, and the
gun under his body. He had died from apoplexy.
Verdict—Natural Death from apoplexy.

Captain W. Pym Young, 65th, is Private Secretary
to the Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief i❑
South Austral*