The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

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AnOther frightful murder has been committed in
Purls. An elderly lady of property, Mme.
4f 109, Boulevard Beaumarchais, left home on
Monday morning after brcakfist, and told her_
servant that she should not return until ten at
night. On returning, she was surprised to find
that the servant, Marguerite L , aged thirty-
three, was not waiting to receive her, and stiL
_ more so to see that the cloth was laid in the dining-
-7 room, and the things not removed. She went tr)
the woman's room, and there to her horror, f0u.,:1
her lying dressed on the bed, quite dead, bathed i
blood, and with numerous wounds inflicted by. •
knife in different parts of her person. She hat'
evidently been murdered, and the murderer, in.
derision, had placed on her breast a crucifix,
• clumsily made, which she had brought from the
country, and had kept at the head of her bed.
Madame G -cried out in terror, and some per-
sons having come in, the commissary of police of ,
the district was sent for. He found that the
drawers and closets had been broken open, and
that their contents, which were stained with
blood, had been ransacked; but what was singula7
was, that nothing, not even the plate and jewellery
of which there was a considerable quantity, ho'
been stolen. On the day before Mme. G- hat
received, in money and securities, at the Bourse,
the' sum of 60,000 francs, and she had placed it in
a small box. The sum was still in the box, and
the box had not been touched. It was assumed
that the object of the murderer had been to steal
the 60,000 francs,-and that he had sought for them
in the drawers and closets, but had not examined
the box, either. on account of its insignificant ap-
pearance or of his having been interrupted by a ring
of the bell at the outer door. The porter recollected
perfectly . well having seen the girl about seven
o'clock in the evening, and afterwards, having occa-
sion to speak to her, he went upstairs and rang, but
received no answer. It was that ring which pre,
bably disturbed the murderer in his search. These
circumstances having been communicated to the
detective police they set to work to discover the mur-
derer. They learned that the girl had been in the
habit of receiving, unknown to her mistress, the
visits of 'a journeyman hatter -of the same boule-
vard. .This man was sought for, and was found to
be in the emphqment,-.of<4. man in the Rue du
Temple. Ha was sOon. 'arrested, and on searching
his lodgings, a great coat stained With blood was
found. He energetically denied his, guilt, and on
being confronted with the dead body coldly ex-
claimed, "'What ! that is. poor Marguerite !" The
knife with which tho deed was perpetrated has not
teen found.

It appears from investigation that it was not in
the evening, as at first supposed, that the crime
was committed, but at about one o'clock, just' after
Madame Garnot, the vietlin's mistress, had left
home after breakfast. This appears clear, not only
from,the breakfast things having been found still
on the table, but from thQ meal the girl had taken.
being updigested in he stomach. It is erear also.
from the fact that shortly before two'o'elock it lady
in the house, an acquaintance of Madame Garnot,
rang at the door, but received no answer, though it
appeared to her that she heard some one moving
softly about inside. In addition to the seizure of a
coat stained with blood, other circumstances tending
to prove the guilt of the journeyman hatter, now in
custodY, have been brought to light. Not only had he
carried on an. intrigue with thegirl, and been acem-
tomed to visit her in her mistress's absence, but he
had been seen hanging about the house shortly
before the murder must have been committed,
waiting no doubt for the mistress to go away. On
the day of the murder he did not go to work at al?,
neither at night did he return to his lodgings, but
hired, a room in a lodging-house near the Hotel do
Ville ; and he could not give any explanation of
those circumstances. In the lodging-house, more-
over, he would not allow himself to be shown to a
room, but said that he could find his way himself,
a proof that he did not wish to be seen too closely p.
and before he retired to rest he was heard washing
his shoes. The next morning he returned to work,
and when, a few hours after, the police having
arrived to arrest him, he was told that some one
was asking for him, he turned very pale, and ex-
claimed in agitation, "Adieu, my-friends adieu
for ever!" He was asked what he meant by such
strange language, but he gave no answer.: When
the police told him he was arrested, he did not
even ask why, and he replied with embarrassment
-to the questions put to him. Lastly, there were
scratches on his hand and spots of blood on his
clothes. Notwithstanding all these circumstances,
the man continues to protest his innocence. The
house in which the murder was committed is occu-
pied by several persons engaged in trade so that
it was easy for him to enter and leave unobserved
by the concierge. The knife with which he per-
petrated the murder has not yet been discovered,
but in the house half of a pair of shears used for
cutting metals, with which evidently the drawers
and closets had been fractured, was found.

GALES IN TIIE MEDITERRANEAN.

The Malta Times of Jan. 16 mentions that, for
four or live weeks preceding, the weather had been
very stormy, with scarcely two consecutive dry
days throughout that interval. The sky had been
Constantly overcast, and so heavy a fall of rain had
never before beeti known. In some parts of the
country the scene presented was of a character
seldom witnessed there. The water rushed through
the valleys with a headlong speed, forming
itself into cascades, and tearing along with it huge
stones which lay in its course to the sea. At one time
no less than four waterspouts were observed. Many
of the low grounds were completely flooded and num-
bers of the loose stone division walls of the fields
and gardens thrown to the ground. Considerable
damage was done to the busbandmen. Violent
winds, chiefly from the bleakest quarter of the com-
pass, also much prevailed, and altogether the wea-
ther was as dreary and uncongenial as it well could
be in these latitudes. On Sunday night, the 9th
of January, the sea rolled into the harbour of
Valetta in appalling breakers. Several vessels re-
ceived much injury. Accounts from Bona of the
3d of January report the total loss of the French
steamer Madinina on the rocks off that place. It
appears she left Tunis on the 28th of December,
bound to Bona, but owing to stormy weather was
obliged on the day following to put into Port
Farina. On the 30th, the weather having mode-
rated, she again put to sea, but on sighting Bona
was caught in a heavy gale, and at two o'clock on
the morning of the 31st was driven on the rocks off
Bona. At daylight the passengers and crew were
fortunately enabled to save themselves by fasten-
ing a rope to the shore. Both vessel and cargo are
totally lost. In the offing of Valetta harbour on
the 14th a fishing boat was upset and sank, but
the men in her contrived to swim to shore behind •
Fort Ricaiosi. Letters have been received from
her Majesty's line-of-battle ship Princess Royal,
stating that, off the Island of Candia, she was
caught in a squall, which strengthened into a
hurricane so violent that the men were unable
to go aloft, and several of her sails were blown
away. It became necessary to get up steam and
use her screw, to avoid being driven on a lee
shore. The Caradoc, which returned from con-
veying the India telegrams to Cagliari, also
met with very severe weather, and experienced
some damage. The Princess Royal when last heard
of was at Suda Bay, Candia. At Alexandria and
tin the coast of Egypt there have been several dis-
asters. A very novel occurrence in those latitudes,
a huge whale had been cast ashore—a rich prize
for the Arabs. On the 20th of January the Eng-
lish schooner Sappho and the barque Jane Price,
with other 10 square-rigged vessels, and several
coasting craft were lost at Catania.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.