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

MURDERS IN IBAIVCE.

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The Court of Assizes of the Jura, three days ago
tried a married woman, named Juge, and her two
children by a former husband, Charles Dejeux,
aged 17, and Alexandrine Dejeux, aged 15, for
murder. After the woman's matriage to Juge,
who was a labourer of Vieill,Loye, she manifested
a prJound aversion for his three children by a for-
mer wife, deprived them of mfficient food and
clothing, beat them repeatedly in the most savage
manner, and more than once had turned them out
of doors barefooted to beg in the midst of winter.
After a while two of the little creatures died. On
the 31 'April, the third child, whose name was Emi-
lie, and who was only e'ght years of age, arrived
at the house of a man named Lance, at Grosmisson,
a village at some distance from Vieille-Loye, and
begged of him to take her in as she was suffering
dreadfully iu her stomach. He received the child,
and she told him that her stapmotht.r had five days.
befol e 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 let her return
home ; that Charles and Alexandrine had beat her
almost continually, and when she was too fatigued
to walk had dragged her along after them ; and
that at last they had forced her Co drink water and
eat bread which had a bittei taste, and which had
caused dreadful pains in the stomach. A few hours
after this the chill died. Her bodyhaving 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
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 ascertained 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•Francoia and
Gomot, for an attempt at murder and for burglary.
The attempt at murder was related in the Messen-
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, ho perceived two men 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 on him, when he whipped up his horse and
got clear off. Ho noticed that ono of the men had
bandy legs, and saw sufficient of the other to de-
scribe his person. The next day the two men were
arrested ; and one of them, Gomot, confessed 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 ken into two houses
at Fontaine-les-Cornu, and stolen 60f. in money, a
gun, and some other objects ;
also, that they had
committed a burglary near Senlis; 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 sufficient money on
him to make it worth while.
The jury found them
guilty, and the court,Eentenced both to death.