The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

MURDER IX 211 E OLD KENT ROAD.

This morning another shocking tragedy occurred
in the neghbourhood of the Old Kent-road. A
foreigner named Bordier bad for some time passed
been living with a young woman named Snow,
at Milstead-terrace, near Church-street, and
early this morning the unfortunate woman
rushed into the bedroom of one of the other
persons living in the same house with blood
streaming from her throat, exclaiming that Bordier
had done it. She sank down from exhaustion. and
expired. The man was at once taken into custody,
and on his examination before the magistrate at
Lambeth Police Court he appeared to be labouring
under a fit of insanity. He did not deny the dreadful
act, and further said he intended to have had another
victim and then to have killed himself. lie was
remanded in order that a full inquiry might take
place before the coroner.
The following arc some additional particulars :

The house, which is one of six rooms, was rented by a
Mrs. Caroline Snow, and let out by her in apartments.
The front and back parlours were occupied by
Louis Bordier and a young female named Emma
Snow (the niece of the landlady), who had for some
years cohabited with him, and by whom she had had
three children. It does not seem that any ill-feel-
ing had existed, and the young man appears to have
attended well to his work. After supper Bordier and the
young woman and children retired to rest, shortly before
ten o'clock. There was nothing in the conduct or manner
of the man to lead to the slightest supposition that
before many hours he would be the perpetrator of a
dreadful crime. Everything passed on quietly until about
five o'clock this morning, when the man got out of bed, and
in doing so awoke the woman. She said, " It's too soon to
get up yet—come to bed again." After a short time the
man again went back to bed, and the woman dropped off to
sleep.
About six o'clock she was awoke by feeling a hand grasp
her tightly by the head, and on looking up saw Bordier with
a knife in his right hand. He pulled back her head and
drew the knife across her throat, from NI hich the blood
spurted out. After struggling with him she managed to get
out of the room into the passage. She put her hand to
her throat, which she tightly grasped, and went upstairs
to the room occupied:.by Mrs. Snow. Mrs. Snow asked
her what was the matter. She replied, " Oh, see what
Bordier has done." Sho then got into bed with her aunt
The latter then perceived that her niece's throat was cut,
and made an alarm, when messengers were sent off to
various medical gentlemen and to the police stations.
Police-constable 138 P and Sergeant Turner, 35 P, pro-
ceeded upstairs, in company with Dr. Simpson, of 759,
Old Kent-road. In the bed-room where the aunt had
slept Emma Snow was lying with a frightful gash
in her throat. Doctor Simpson, on making an ex-
amination, found life to be quite extinct. Bor-
dier afterwards came upstairs, and, in answer to Mrs.
Snow, who said, •' Oh, what did you do this for ?" he
replied "I have done it. I could not help it, for I could not
part from her.", The police then made a search, and on going
into the front parlour, where Bordier and the unfortunate
woman had slept, they found on the floor, covered with
blood, a large sharp knife, such as would be used by a currier
in his trade. The bed clothes were stained with blood,
marks of which were about the floor, along the passage,
and upstai sto the aunt's room. Some letters written
in French were found, but at present it is not known
whether their contents at all relate to the dreadful deed.

It seems further that although the man and his victim
hid been on very good terms fur a long time,
yet, owing to some quarrel between them, she
had threatened to leave him, and went so far as to
give him a week's notice. From this statement made by
ono of the children, a girl about ten years of ag,, it
seems that Bordier, after having cut the woman's throat
passed into the back parlour. Ile stooped down on the bed
whore the child was lying, and seizing her by the threat
pushed her head back and looked herfull in the face. After
remaining in thisposition a few moments, ho suddenly threw
her back and said, " Lay down again." At that time ho
held cno hand behind him, in which she noticed the handle
of a knife. He did not touch her or say another word, but
left theroom. No doubt from this prisoner intended to have
destroyed the child, but at the moment of doing so relented.
On being questioned by the police the man, who did not at
first seem distressed in mind, or to feel the dreadful position
in which he was placed, said, " Yes, I did it, and the knife
is the ono you have got that I did it with." Ile then begged
to be taken to see the woman before they took him away.
This was done, and on the way upstairs prisoner said ho
hoped she would not live. The prisoner, in the custody
of the police, was then removed to Peckham station, and
from there to Lambeth Police-court. During the morning
there was a largo crowd gati.wred in front of the house.

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