The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

MURDERS IN _FRANCE.

Tha Court of Assizes of the Jura three clays ago
tried a married woman, named Judo, and her two
children by a former husband, Charles Dejeux,
aged 17, and Alexandrine Dejeur, aged 15, fur
murder. After the woman's marriage to Juge,
who was a labourer of Vieille-Loye, she manifested
a profound aversion for his three children by a for-
mer wife, deprived them of cutileient food and
clothing, beat them repeatedly in the molt savage
manner, and more than once had turned them out
of doors bxrefooted to beg in tbe midst of winter.
After a while two of the little creatures die 1. On
the 3d April, the third child, whose name was Emi-
lie. and who was only &girt years of age, arrived
at 'the house of a man named Lance, at Grosinisson,*
a village at some distance from Vieille-Loye and
begged of him to take her in .as she was suffering
dreadfully in her stomach. Ho received the child,
and she told him that her stepmother had five days
before sent her out to beg in the adjacent villages
with Charles and Alexandrine, and had at the same
time told them to take care not to lot her return
home ; that Charles and Alexandrine had beat her
almost continually, and when she was to fatigued
to walk bad dragged het along after them ; and
that at last they had forced her to drink wa'er and
eat bread which had a bitten taste, and which had
caused dreadful pains in the stomach. A fow hours
after this the child died. Her body having been
examined by a medical man, it was found that she
had died from phosphorus, which had been admin-
istered in water and bread. No one but the b )3,
and the girl .had been with her at the time the
poison must have been administered ; but it seemed
certain that they had acted by order of their
mother, and, besides, it was ascertainel that the
woman had shortly before purchased phosphorus.
The jury declared all three guilty, and the court
sentenced the woman to death, the lad to twenty
years' hard labour, and the girl to be confined for

twenty years in a house of correction.
The Court of Assizes of the Oise was yesterday
occupied in trying two men, named Francois and
Gomot, for an attempt at murder and for burglary.
The attempt at murder was related in the llfessen-
ger at the time it occurred. As M. Bigot, of
Plessis-Belville, was driving in his gig on the 4th
July through the wood of Borest, on his return
home from Senlis, he perceived two mon by the
roadside, and when he got up to them one of them
fired a gun at him ; the charge, consisting of slugs,
knocked off his hat and slightly wounded him
in the head. The two men were about to
rush ou him, when he whipped up his horse and
got clear off. He noticed that one of the men hal
bandy legs, and saw sufficient of the uthor to de-
scribe his person. The next day the two men were
arrested ; and ono of them, Gomot, confossel not
only that they had attempted to murder the no-
tary with the intention of robbing him, but that
they had adayor two before IR &en into two houses
at Fontaine-les-Corot], and stolen GOf. in money, a
gun, and some other objects ; also, that they had
committed a burglary near Seoli4; and lastly, that
they had contemplated murdering a village post-
man in order to rob him, but had abstained from
the fear that he might not have sufficieetnaoney on
him to make it worth while. The jury found them
guilty, and the court sentenced both to death.