The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-17 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDER IN FRANCE.

Accounts were given at the beginning of Septem-
ber of the finding of the dead body of a girl, about 15
years of age, hanging to a tree in the neighbour-
hood of Pantin, a village near Paris—of the • dis-
covery, on examination, that she had been grossly
outraged and then murdered—and of the arrest, a
few days after, of her uncle, one Parang, on sus-
picion of having committed the crime. Yesterday,
this man was brought to trial before the Court of
Assizes of the Seine, and the case excited con-
siderable interest. The indictment, after stating
the finding of the body early in the morning
of the 31st. August, and describing the out-
rage to which the girl had been subjected, said
that a handkerchief, tied tightly round her throat,
bruises on her face and person, the marks of a
severe struggle having taken place in a field at a
few yards from the tree, and lastly, the manner in
which the body was suspended to the tree—all
showed that the deceased had not committed
suicide, but had been murdered. She was meanly
dressed at the time, and had in her pocket two
rosaries, a medal of the Virgin, and a small
copper candlestick with a piece of eandle, but she
had nothing on her to show who she was. It
then proceeded to say how the murder was
discovered. In the evening of the 31st August, a
labourer named Loriette, whilst looking at a mounte-
bank who was exhibiting in the Place de la Bas-
tille, got into conversation with a man standing by
his side, and after a while said :—"Frightful
crimes are being committed in Paris now-a-days !
This morning, the dead body of a girl was found
hanging to a tree, and she must have been mur-
dered!' On that, the other man, who was a stranger
to him, turned pale and staggered. Loriette added
that a piece of candle had been found on the girl,
and the stranger cried, " Why, it must be my
niece ! I had a presentiment on seeing her put
the candle in her pocket that something would
happen !" And then he proceeded, in a manner
which seemed very singular to Loriette, to say that
his niece, though. very young, was exceedingly
vicious ; that she had made the acquaintance of a
man at *Vincennes, who had offered her 800 f. to
visit him ; and that she had been away from home
all the preceding night. He then asked Loriette
where the body had been found, and the man said
he thought it was somewhere in the neighbourhood
of La Villette. The man pretended not to know
where La Villette was, and Loriette said that as he
worked there he would, if he called on him very
early the next morning at his lodgings in the Rue
St. Antoine, shoW him the way. The man, after
stating that his name was Parang, and that the
name of his niece was Lucie Parang, went away.
The next morning, accompanied by his wife, he
called at Loriettle's lodging, but finding that he had
gone to his work, he proceeded to La Villette, and
calling on the commissary of that place, stated
that he was the uncle of the girl who had been
found murdered. The commissary sent him with a
police officer to the commissary at Pantin, and on
the way he repeated again and again that his
niece had been of loose conduct. On entering the
office of the commissary at Pantin he saw the cord
with which the body had been suspended, and
cried—" That is my cord ! " He also recog-
nised the candlestick found on her. He then
related that on the previous evening the
girl and himself had left home to purchase
a cord for a turning lathe—she putting into her
pocket the candle and candlestick with which she
had lighted him downstairs—that after a while she
had given him the slip, and that all his attempts
to discover her had been fruitless. Although
his story seemed strange, there was nothing to
warrant his arrest. But after a few days it
was ascertained that all he had said about the
girl's immorality was scandalously false—that he
himself had made repeated attempts to corrupt
her but in vain—that on the evening of the 30th
of August, she, by his direction had gone out
with him and had accompanied him to the Rue du
Vert Bois, where he had purchased a cord of pecu-
liar make and of certain length—that this very cord
was the one with which the girl was suspended—that
the girl was not afterwards seen alive by anyone who
knew her—that he had not returned home until
late at night, when he Was without the girl, and
could not account for the manner in which he had
passed his time—and, lastly, that he had scratches
on his hands and face, and stains of blood on his
linen, which he could not explain. In court, the
man was interrogated at some length on the vari-
ous points in the indictment, and he answered with
considerable cunning, maintaining that he was in-
nocent. Some witnesses were then examined, and
after hearing the public prosecutor in upport of the
indictment, and M. Nogent St. Laurent for the
prisoner, the jury, after half an hour's deliberation,
brought in a verdict of guilty, and the Court con-
demned him to death. He retired without saying
a word.

At Rochefort, in Belgium, three days ago, an
experiment was made with some works for the distribution
of water recently constructed. The King of the Belgians
and the Count de Flandre having to pass on that day
through the place on their return from the shooting lodge
of St. Hubert to the chateau at Ardennes, were requested
to examine the works. H.M. and. H.R.H. kindly con-
sented, and both on arriving and leaving they were most
warmly cheered.
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