The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-12 00:00:00

CRIME 1N FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes of the Marne was three
days ago occupied with a painful case—the trial of
a widow named Denis, of Poix, for the murder of
her mother, aged eighty-two. This old woman, it
appeared, some years back, made over to her daugh-
ter and the latter's husband all that she possessed,
on the condition that they should board and lodge
her, and give her 100 fr. a-year for life. But, as
generally happens in such cases, the couple soon
found the old woman an intolerable burden to them,
and they did not hesitate to express wishes to see
her dead. The daughter was even more hostile
than her husband, and treated the poor creature
shamefully, and even on some occasions driving her
through the village with cries and blows as if she
was a horse. On the 28th Nov. last the prisoner
told her neighbours that her mother had died in
the night, and when they went to the house they
were surprised to find the old woman not only
dead, but in a shroud. "It was I who put her
in the shroud !" said the prisoner, and she and
her husband wanted to have a coffin procured and
the burial to take place at once. But medical
men were sent for, and they examined the de-
ceased ; they found that she had been murdered
by violent pressure on the mouth and nostrils,
and from bruises on different ?arts of her person.
They came to the conclusion that two persons
must have been engaged in the perpetration of the
crime, one holding her whilst the other caused suf-
focation. Now the only two persons in the house
who could have killed her or have had any motive
for killing her were Denis and his wife, and they
were arrested. They made admissions which left
no doubt of their guilt, and besides, a few days
after, the man committed suicide in prison. When
the preceding circumstances had been proved, a
little boy, son of the accused, was examined, and
said without emotion, " I remember the night in
which my grandmother died! My father awoke
me, and said, ' Get up, we are about to kill your
grandmother !' I was terrified, and crept under the
clothes ! My father threatened to strike me if I
did not rise, but I continued under the clothes. I
then heard a noise, and peeping out, I saw my
father and mother struggling, with my grand-
mother, whose bed was in the same room as mine.
My father knelt on her breast, and my mother held
her legs. She only struggled a little, and then
became quite still I She was dead ! ' " How could
you see all that P" asked the president. " Had they
a light?" " No; but the moon was shining
brightly ?" The jury declared the woman guilty,
and the Court condemned her to death.

Although it is premature to speculate on any dis-
position of the vast property left by the late Duke of
Sutherland, yet we believe there was an understanding,
when the Duke purchased the estate of Cliefden, near
Maidenhead, ostensibly for the use of the Marquis and
Marchioness of Stafford, that it was really intended for the
Duchess, in case she should be the survivor. The late
Duke proved the personalty alone of his father, the first
Duke, at under a million sterling.—Court Journal.
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