The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-26 00:00:00

C.R.IIIIE IN FRANCE.

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Didier, the man arrested on the charge of mur-
dering and robbing M. and Mme. Rolland, of Re-
milly, near Metz, and who has been sent to the latter
town for trial, has not only confessed his guilt, but
has related all the circumstances of his crime.
Two of them are singular :—The first is that he
was for three days and three nights secreted in
a barn, with a quantity of provisions which he
had provided, waiting for a favourable opportu-
nity for committing his intended Crime, and that
on each night he inspected the premises ;
the aext is that, finding on the third night the oc-
casion favourable, he effected an entrance into the
house, and on reaching the•dining room he fancied
he heard a noise, and perceived what appeared to
be a man in front of him ; be at once aimed a tre-
mendous blow at the man's head with his hammer,
but to his astonishment, it was followed by a noise
of broken glass—he having struck at his image in
a looking glass ! This noise, however, did not
awaken the aged couple, and when he had some-
what recovered from the emotion which the sin-
gular incident occasioned him, he went and mur-
dered them.

Among the cases submitted yesterday to the
Tribunal of Correctional Police was one which,
though only a public house brawl, excited some
degree of interest on account of the names of the
persons who figured in it—Talma, Boileau, and
Cochin ; the latter that of one of the most distin-
guished advocates the French bar can boast of,
the others, as is known, of the actor and the poet ;
and the interest was increased when Talma stated
that the renowned tragedian was his great uncle,
and that he himself occupied a subordinate place
(not as actor) in the administration of the Theatre
Franeais. The affair was this: Talma and Cochin
a few nights back, after playing at cards in a pub-
lichouse kept by one Martin, 28, Rue de Valois,
got into a quarrel about the payment of the score.
A policeman heard the noise, and as the hour was
past midnight he told Martin to shut up his house.
Returning shortly after be heard the two men
still quarrelling, and he repeated his order,
but Martin flew into a rage and struck him.
He (the officer) seized the man to take him to the
lock-up; whereupon Talma interfered and struck
him also. In consequence of this. Martin and
Talma were accused of assaulting a police officer in
the discharge of his duty ; and Boileau and Cochin, i
who had been present, were called as witnesses.
After investigating the circumstances, the Tribunal
acquitted Talma, and fined Martin 25fr.
As two police officers were yesterday morning
passing along the Rue des Vinaigriers they perceived
a young woman throw herself out of a window on
the fifth floor of a house. They hurried to her,
and finding that, though dreadfully injured, she
was still alive, they placed her in a litter to con-
vey her to the hospital ; but before they had gone
far she died. and they accordingly took her body
back to the house. From inquiries made, it ap-
peared that the female, who is twenty-eighty ears
of age, had for some time practised shoplifting,
and, having been discovered, was about to be ar-
rested ; and that she was so distracted at the idea
that a young man, who was her lover, should know
of her disgrace, that she determined to commit
suicide.
In the account which was given of the extraor-
dinary affair in the Rue de la Fontaine-Alolfere
--the cutting of the throat of a seryant girl_ntuuede

Personnet, as she was in bed asleep—it was stated '
that the crime appeared to have been committed to
facilitate robbery, inasmuch as half a dozen silver
spoons and forks had been taken away. But it
struck the police that, as the girl was asleep, the
robbery might have been perpetrated without at-
tempting to murder her, and that, consequently,
the crime must have had some other motive than
that at first supposed. Their view has been con-
firmed by the discovery that not even the articles
in question were stolen, they having been found in
a sewer of the house. The affair consequently is
enveloped in mystery ; and until light shall be
thrown on it, the policy have:placed in custody the
girl's master and mistress, and their nephew.
These three persons, however, profess that they are
innocent.

The Court of Assizes of the Aisne three days
ago tried a band of ten persons, six men and
four women, all relatives, for a vast number of
robberies of turkeys, geese, cocks and hens,
rabbits, vegetables, grain, agricultural imple-
ments, clothing, etc., etc., from farm buildings
at Cilly, Froidemont, Sainte-Genevieve, Lugny,
Erlon, Hary, Harcegny, and other places, com-
mitted during the last three years. The trial
lasted a considerable time, owing to the number
of robberies alleged against the accused being not
fewer than 74, and it being necessary to ascertain
from 70 witnesses their respective shares in each
one, but the details of the affair presented no
interest. It was, however, stated, as a proof of
the extent of their depredations, that they had
stolen not fewer than 394 cocks and hens. The

jury, to whom as many as 550 questions were put,
acquitted four of the accused and convicted the
others, who were consequently condemned to from
two years' imprisonment to eight years' hard
labour.