The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN PARIS.

Great commotion was caused on Saturday in the
Faubourg St. Germain, by an extraordinary attempt
at murder in the house of the Marquise de Martain-
ville, 72, Rue St. Dominique St. Germain. The
Marquis de Martainville, who died lately, left by
his will legacies more or less important to almost
all his servants except one, Jean M— by name,
aged 67, with whose conduct he was not satisfied.
This man, who is of a violent character, ascribed
his exclusion from the will to the influence which
two other servants, a married couple, L—, the
husband footman, and his wife lady's maid, exer-
cised over their master and mistress, and he con-
ceived bitter animosity against them in consequence.
He frequently abused the couple, but in the hope
that his bad humour would wear off they made no
complaint. On Saturday morning this man, seeing
Mme. L— in a room on the ground floor, began
abusing her. She replied somewhat sharply, and
flying into a violent passion, he seized a log of wood
and struck at the woman's head, but throwing her-
self back in terror she only received a slight blow.
She cried out loudly for help, and her husband
rushing in tried to wrest the log from the man, but
was unable to do so, and received a blow on the
head which felled him to the ground. Another ser-
vant, named Bouge, now hurried in, and Jean, draw-
ing out a large, knife, attempted to stab him, but
Bouge after a dreadful struggle, forced the knife
from him. Jean then snatched up a large wood
chopper, and three servants; 'seeing he was about
to attack them with it,' ran in terror to another
room and fastened themselves in. He however broke
open the door with the chopper, and struck each of
them with great fury, inflicting very serious wounds.
The two men, though blood was streaming from
them, succeeded, after a struggle, in getting the
chopper from him; but he then drew forth a razor,
and cut Mme. L- with it. He then still in a
state of fury, rushed up stairs, and sought refuge
on the roof of the house. The police having been sent
for arrived at this moment, but seeing that it would
be dangerous to follow the man on the roof—where
lie was walking'abont in great fury, with a razor
in his hand, "and..4ying thaf,he would murder any
one Who should dare to approach him—contented
themselves with. guarding the different issues' of
that and the adjacent houses, and sent for some
firemen. These men ascended to the roof, and two
of them; who were armed with swords, advanced
resolutely towards the man, and, in spite of his
threats to murder them with his razor, ordered him
to surrender. The man, seeing that they were not
to be trifled with, put his razor in his pocket, and
gave himself up. On being searched three razors
were found on him. After hiving been interrogated
by the commissary of police of the district he was
sent to the prefecture of police. Medical assistance
being obtained for the victims, it was found that
the wounds of Bouge are extremely grave, though
it is believed not mortal ; and that those of the
married couple also are. serious, especially of the
woman, but they do not place their lives in danger.

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