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

(RINE IN _TRANCE.

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 Farts 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 Danis 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 1 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 b© the survivor. The late
Duke proved the personalty alone of his father, the first
Duke, at under a million sterling.—Conet Journal.
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now being raeoppered, and before leaving dock will
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which will be fined at her from the Armstrong and
Whitworth guns.
A heavy gale of wind prevailed at Portsmouth
during the whole of yesterday and the greater part
of Sunday night from N.W. to W.N.W., accom-
panied at short intervals with exceedingly fierce
squalls of sleet and hail. The barometers have
been very unsteady, Negretti and Zambra's sea-
coast having fallen a tenth during the day, and now
(6 p.m.) marks 29.30, with its thermometer at 44.
The ships of war in harbour have had all necessary
precautions taken to secure them against any acci-
dent. The Marlborough, 131, screw, Captain W.
lilianngt at Spithead, has two anchors
masts struck. A number of
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merchant vessels, among them several screw
steamers, have put into the Motherbank and St.
Helen's Roads for shelter. No communication
has been made with any of the wind-bound
merchant feet ; but among others put in have
been observed, the Diligence naval transport,
one of Messrs. Green's outward-bound Indiamen,
three French fishermen, a large bark, and a brig,
and several auxiliary screw steamers.
Letters received from Vancouver's Island, dated
J.:,nuary 11, state that the Forward gunboat, Licut.
Robson, went down to Nootka Sound in the middle
of December and took in tow there a disabled mer-
chantman. In towing her out of the Sound the
chain by which she was being towed broke, andthe
two vessels parted company—the Forward not
having since been heard of. It is supposed that the
vessel must have put into some one of the many
inlets in the neighbourhood owing to some defect
in her mnehitery, and no serious fear at the time
the letter was despatched was entertained as to her
safety. The Plumper had proceeded in search.
The Bulldog, 6, paddlewheel sloop, Commander
H. N. 11,1'Killop, arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Sunday from Pembroke, with marines and super-
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the Bulldog coaled to sail again for Portsmouth.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—John M. Dronson, assist.-
surg., to the Conqueror ; Arthur M'Kenna, assist.-
surg., to the Hogue ; Benjamin Browning, assist.-
surg., to the Cockatrice ; James Wysb, assist.-surg.
to the Victory, for Haslar hospital ; James Mid-
dleton, M.D., acting assist-surg., to the Conqueror;
Robert H. G. Gilbert, acting assist.-surg., to the
Calypso ; Jeremiah Donovan, acting assist.-surg.,
to the Icarus ; James Parker, acting assist-surg.,
to the Procris, and Josiah F. Kynsey, acting assist.-
surg., to the Weser. •

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief has decided, with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State for War, that the memorandum,
dated Horse Guards, November the 13th, 1860,
under which officers of Militia who had served con-
tinuously as such in an embodied regiment for 18
months were admitted to the regular army on
passing a modified form of examination, shall con-
tinue in force only until the 30th of June, 1861,
after which date officers of Militia who are desirous
of obtaining commissions in the army will be re-
quired to pass the same examination as that to
which candidates from civil life are ordinarily
subjected.
His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards at
one o'clock on Friday next, the 15th inst.
The Government having decided on erecting a
commodious building at Chatham for the purposes
of a Soldiers' Institute, to be used exclusively by
the troops of the garrison, the following tenders for
erecting the building have; been received by the
committee of officers appointed to superintend the
raising of the proposed structure :—Messrs. Foord
avid Sons, Rochester, £4,198; Mr. Wilkins,
Chatham, £4,082; Mr. Carpe, London, £3,775 ;
Messrs. Dove Brothers, London, £3,775 ; Mr.
Stump, Chatham, £3,498 9s. ; and Mr. Naylor,
Rochester, £3,493. The new building is to be
erected at the rear of Chatham barracks, and will
include a large lecture-hall to be used for lectures,
concerts, amateur performances, exhibitions, and
other entertainments, together with reading and
smoking rooms, library, and other apartments for
the use of the troops when not engaged on their
military duty. The whole is to be completed by
the month of October next.

THE ALLEGED (.A•\E oF POISONING

AT IYALWORTY.

Yesterday Mr. John Spain, the gentleman who
was examined at the Lambeth police-court on
Saturday, on the charge of having caused the death
of Mrs. Caroline Spain, his daughter-in-law, by
administering to her some narcotic poison, was re-
examined at the above court. Mr. Humphreys
attended as his solicitor.

The first witness called was Mr. Wheeler, a sur-
geon, residing at No. 17, Clayton-place, Kenning-
ton-road, who deposed that he was present at the
post-mortem examination of Mts. Caroline Spain,
by Mr. Heath, of Westminster Hospital, on the
day before. On opening the skull and cutting
into the brain a large clot of blood was found in
the right ventricle of the brain, filling the whole
cavity and pressing on a portion of the brain itself,
and which caused insensibility. It was the cause
of death, which took place from apoplexy. The
stomach was healthy, there were no traces what-
ever of poison in it, nor was there the slightest
smell of spirits of any kind from it, and it was
quite apparent that death had taken place from
apoplexy, which might have been occasioned by
sudden joy at seeing a friend, or by long continued
sorrow, or depression and excitement following.
Oa discovering the clot of blood on the brain as de-
scribed, Mr. Heath said, " This does away N% ith
all your poisoning."
Mr. Norton—Was Mr. Nott present at the post-
mortem ?
Mr. Wheeler—He was, sir.
Mr. Norton—And did he quite agree with you
and the other gentleman as to the cause of death,
and its being the result of apoplexy ?
Mr. Wheeler—Yes, I think he did.
Mr. Wm. Francis Nott was next called, and the
evidence given by him on Saturday having been
read over, he said he had since attended the post-
mortem examination of the deceased, and his
opinion was that she died of apoplexy—decidedly
so. In cross-examination by Mr. Humphreys he
said he had detected no smell from the breath
of the deceased, though very likely he should
expect to find a men from the breath of a person
who had taken narcotic poison. The deceased had
vomited on her clothes, and it produced no smell.
He stated on oath ou Saturday—on that oath which
had been read over to him—he stated that it was his
opinion the deceased died from the effects of narcotic
poison. In cases of opium the medical attendant
generally expects a smell.
Mr. Humphreys—What is your age?
Mr; Not t—Tifty-nine.
Mr. Humphreys—Are you a member of the Col-
lege of Surgeons ?
Mr. Nott—Yes, but not a licentiate of Apothe-

caries'- hall.
Mr. Humphreys—Are you registered as a sur-
geon, and a member of the College of Surgeons ?
Mr. Nott—Yes.
Mr. Humphreys—How long ?
Mr. Nott—Since the Bth of March. •
Mr. Humphreys—What, only since Friday last,
when you must have known the act requiring your
registration has been in force two or three years?
Now there is one more question I want to ask you,
and that is, whether you passed through an exa-
mination at the College of Surgeons?
Mr. Nott—Certainly I did.
This being all the evidence, with the exception
Nlv'shaftorZeocis-
of Inspector Dann stating that he had found the
paper to which Mr. Spain alluded on Saturday at
the house of the deceased,
Mr. Humphreys complained in terms of some
indignation of the treatment to which his respected
client had been subjected.
•ptorues-;:mfliyetdi
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oared, and pronounce Mr. Spain wholly '
again Air.
to Neuxi
of the charge—as innocent as I a innocent
therefore he is discharged. am InSselli and
Mr. Spain then left the court, accompanied by his
friends.

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