The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-29 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.

(triGu our. OWN CORIRESFONDENT.Y
PARIS, 'WEDNESDAY, April 28.

A tragedy with more than the usual admixture of
Parisian horror is just reported from the Rue St. Antoine.
A Workman, aged 28, residing in that quarter, had been
on terms of intimacy with a young woman named
Cl6rnence, of the same neighbourhood, but in con-
sequence of her violent and jealous disposition
had recently broken off the connection. She several times
since endeavoured to induce him to return, but finding
him firm in his resolution to remain away she laid wait
for him two days back with a bottle of sulphuric acid.
On his coming up she dashed the whole of the corrosive
liquid in his face and eyes. Then going home, she com-
mitted suicide by lighting two pans of charcoal in her
room. The man was horribly burnt and disfigured, and
was removed to the hospital in extreme agony.
The array of horrors, indeed,- is heavy again to-day.
An Algerian trial has just resulted in a verdict of
"extenuating circumstances" in the case of a murder of a boy
by his father, without the slightest apparent provocation.
The lad was found in a field with nine wounds inflicted
by a knife. The father attempted to throw the odium
upon some Arabs, but was convicted by the evidence of
his younger son, a child of seven, who witnessed the deed.
Where were the extenuating circumstances in this in-
stance? That a Frenchman should escape with his
life after committing a crime of this nature,
whilst several Arabs have been recently executed fur
what may be called "ordinary murders," has not an
impartial aspect. An even worse story has been revealed
at the Dordogne Assize Court. A man was put on trial
for the murder of a joiner with whom his wife had been on
too intimate terms. The disclosures made in this case are
something exceptional. It appears that the husband,
Delpech, bad informed his wife before their marriage that
if she became a mother by a rich man whc was
paying her some not very honourable attentions,
and could get a tolerably round sum of money
from her lover, he would marry her. The young
woman acted upon this advice, and Delpech struck a
bargain with the wealthy man by which he received about
£l5O to marry the girl. She, seeing her husband set
such little store by all ordinary feelings of honour, thought
there could be no objection to her going astrayngain. She
accordingly contracted the intimacy with the joiner.
But Delpech, though ready to sell himself for a
mess of pottage, did not believe in selling himself for
nothing. Ile shot the joiner.
A pleasant evening was spent last Sunday by several
people who went to enjoy the marvellous prospect from
the top of the Arc de Triomphe. They got up and gazed
upon the spleeded array of streets radiating like a
star from the arch, and enjoyed themselves, no doubt,
thoroughly. Unfortunately, they were locked in. It
was late in the evening, and the keepers thought that
everybody had gone. In vain the prisoners knocked and
Licked at the door leading up to the winding staircase.
After laising, a din which ought, one would think, to have
attracted attention, they gave up the struggle, and returning
to the top of the monument, spent the night upon the
stones. They would have a good view of Paris hy star-
light ; but people may have too much msthetie en.,oynicnt.
The prisoners, however, had the satisfaction of a small
reven;e tLe next morning. the nian who opened the door
was horribly frightened at the sight of several ghostly
spectres at the foot of the steps.

21LLEGED Fll.-1171)8 I.N. LIFE ASSUR..I2CCE

A case or disputed c:aim on a, poi.iey of life insurance,
effected with the Prudential A 83u nth ce Com4any,
Ludgate .hill, London, wash,ard at Liverpool on Tuesday,
The plaintiff was a woman namA Ellen Grimshaw, of
Liverpool, who claimed JAG ICa. for a policy effected on
her motherdn-law's life. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was really 71, though she
had been represented as CO. The compau
had discoverAl the misstatement but had offered
to pay the amount that would have been due had the ago
been rightly given, which would have amounted to £2l
12s. The case was very much involved owing to family
disputes on the part of the plaintiff, which had prevented
the ataining of necessary signatures, and to the transferi
of the policy from the Royal Liver Society, in which it.
was originally effected, to th3l'rudential. Mr. Harden;
in pronouncing judgment, censured both parties for the
careless manner in which the affair had beer
conducted, and ordered the company to pay £24 into court:
that being the sum to which the plaintiff would hay.;
been entitled had she kept up the original insurance.