The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

DECEMBER 14,,

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Angelinatiour daughter: is T enciente by me, and.
.that she wishes to marry me.' ' What you ask,
Jeani' said- Madame, is not possible. Harness the--
horses instantly, and let us return to Chinon.' On
our return I told Mademoiselle Angelina that her
mother would Ala hear of our marriage, and said,
Nowl haye done my part—do what you like.'
"What afterwards'Passed. between you and Madame
Lemoine P" asked the President. " Madame paid
me 100 f., the amount due for wages, and said, Go
to your room—pack up your things and be off!' I
answered, Madame, I promised your daughter to
marry her, and I will never fail in my word!"
The man said this with such pomposity that loud
laughter arose throughout the court, but it was
checked by the President. " Before leaving the
house did you not speak to Angelina ?" " Yes, to
bid her fgrevvell, and she said to me, Poor Jean.!
the matter has not turned out as we wished, but
My mother says that she will get rid of the child."
Louis; Laootte, cook to Madame Lemoine, de-
posed to familiarities between the coachman and
the young lady.
Dr. Danvau, chief surgeon of the Hospice de
la Maternite at Paris, said that he had been
charged-to examine some bones which had been
found in a cellar at- Madame Lemoine's, and that
among
,them was the frontal bone of an embryo.
On comparing it with those of subjects preserved
in the, museums at Paris, he had come to the con-
cldsibn that it might belong to one seven or eight
months old ; it might also, however, be that of a
child come to its full time. The doctor added, that
though healthy childreri generally cry on being born,
the absence of a cry is not a proof that a cild is
not alive.

Dr. Gendron of Chinon, deposed that he had
been sent by the magistrates to examine the young
lady when reports of what had occurred had
reached them ; and that on that occasion Madame
Lemoine, in answer to his questions, had admitted
that her daughter had given birth to a child, and
that she had burnt it.

An old woman named Suard, formerly a servan
in the Lemoine family, said she had communicated
to Madame Lemoine the reports which were cur-
rent about her daughter. ." Yes," remarked Ma-
dame Lemoine,." she did so, but my daughter denied
that they were true, and I fully believed her."
The brother of Fetis and a musicmaster named
Sorneau deposed that the coachman had revealed
to.thenalis intimacy with the young lady. The
musicmaster added that the mail had begun taking.
lessons on the violin, but discontinued them be-
cause he said that as he was about to become rich
by marrying Mademoiselle Angelina he had no need
to learn how to play the fiddle. (Laughter.)
The next witness was the tailor, named Lieubray,
who attempted to commit suicide by discharging a
pistol at his "head, but who -did not accomplish his
purpose, ; he had, however, wounded himself rather
seriously and was brought into the court in a chair.
He deposed that he had observed familiarities be-
tween the young lady and Fetis, and that the lat-
ter had told him that she was enciente, and had
even asked him to ‘present a .letter to her mother,
asking her hand in marriage on that ground. The
man said also that in his presence Mademoiselle
Angelina had talked to Fetis of marrying him.
Several other witnesses also deposed to having
observed familiarities between Mademoiselle Le-
moine and the coachman. A man named Faucillon
deposed to having seen Mademoiselle Lemoine,
when in company with her mother, lie down on the
side' of a 'Slope and roll to the bottom without stop-
ping. It could not have been an accident, for the
young lady first took off her shawl and laid it aside,
resuming it afterwards. The girl Itoehereau, who
had bsenrervant with the two prisoners after the
departuraof Fetis, declared that she was aware that
her young mistress would before long give birth to
a child, but when the accouchement took place
everything poised so quietly that she know nothing
of what had occurred.
Hercule Guibaut, landed proprietor, deposed to
the neglected-education given by the mother to
Mademoiselle Lemoine, and being a friend of the
• father's he had remonstrated with Madame Lenioine
on the subject.
On-the other hand, M. Laurent, musicmaster,
and :Ct: Maupetit, professor of history, declared.that
tlidyshad give.n lessons to the younger prisoner, and
never saw anything in her manner or conduct that
was not perfeetly correct.
The President read several passages from the
examination of Madame Lemoine, tending to prove
her inflexible determination.
Madame Lemoine replied—"l do not deny that
I have a determined will, but the energy of which
you speak leads to noble actions and not to crime."
—The-examination of witnesses lasted the whole of
the first two days, yesterday being denoted to the
requisitory of the public prosecutor and to the
pleadings, .
The Ptiblic Prosecutor supported the indictment.
After some obiervations on the enormity of the case,
he proceeded to notice what he called the scandal-
ously negligent manner in which Madame Lemoine
had brought up her daughter—allowing her to go
out alone into the town, to frequent shops in which
men were employed, to talk loosely, act boldly, and
read immoral books. He also accused Madame
Lemoine of not having given her daughter any
religious education.' So negligent was she of
her daughter that, even after she was informed of
the reports that were current about her, she did
not place any watch on her, and. the consequence
was the relations between the girl and the coach-
man continued as before. The girl's conduct had
been truly scandalous, and by it she had degraded
herself even below her paramour. The learned
gentleman then, passed in review the facts of the
case, and .contended that when Madame Lemoine
found she could not by the violent measures she had
employed on her daughter produce a miscarriage,
she had deliberately resolved on getting rid of the
child" by burning, whether it were alive or dead.
He described th horrible calm with which the
crime was effected, and insisted that the child had
been born:alive. He concluded by Pressing earnestly
for a conviction of the mother, and by contending
that the girl had clearly been her accomplice, and
must be convicted also.
M. Lachaud,iadvocate for Madame Lemoine, be-
gan by tsaying that never had any woman such
moral torture as she. She had seen her daughter,
her pride and joy, dishonoured at the very outset
of life by a scoundrel; and she and her daughter
were now
.called upon to answer for the life of a
being which never existed. Even if, placing the
honour of her daughter above every other conside-
ratios, sire : had committed a crime, she would merit
profound pity, he had almost said respect. But he
.should be able to show the jury that she had not
committed, any crime. The learned gentleman then
proceeded to contend that she had not neglected her
daughter; the forward. conduct of the girl had been
much exaggerated; and, lastly that she was one -of
those exceptional characters whom it was impossihle
even fora mother to divine. He next went on to
denounce the coachman for having basely taken
advantage of the extreme youth and inexperience of
the girl, 4rid said that though perhaps in the eye of
the law he could not be accused of having subjected
her to :violence, he had certainly done so in
the eye of God. He. expressed surprise
that when :this man, so base and ignoble, had
revealed to Madame Lemoine that her daughter
was enceinte by him, she had not rushed on
him add attempted to kill him. But Madame Le-
moine was able to control her indignation, and she
questioned her daughter; Who could picture ade-
quately to himself the anxiety, sorrow, and anguish
of those two unfortunate creatures—the daughter
on her knees avowitv, that she was dishonoured,
and the niother listening to her? The learned
gentleman then entered into an elaborate review.of
the facts which occurred subsequently, and con-
tended that the violent exercises • which Madame
Lenioine had caused he daughter to take were not
destined to produce a miscarriage ; that, though
Madame Lemoine had undoubtedly resolved to keep
her. daughter's frailty secret, she had never con-
ceived the horrible project of burning a living
child and that what the daughter had said as to
the being born alive was a mistake, as the
child was certainly dead. He therefore must call
on the judge to say that the indictment was not
established.

M. Seiiler afterwards pleaded on behalf of Mdlle.
Lemoine, contending that, if any murder had been
committed, she was not legally or morally respon-
sible, inasmuch as she at the time was in such a
state as not to be aware of what was taking place.
The Pregident then summed up the evidence, and
the jury, late at night, retired to consider the ver-
dict. in half an hour they returned with a verdict
of guilty against the mother, but with extenuating
ciffuffistances, and of acquittal of the daughter.
151:be Court condemned the mother to 20 years'
hard labour.

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