The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

SAD DEATH .OF A GERMAN PRINCE.

The New Free Press of Vienna gives the subjoined
details respecting the sad deaths of Prince Gagarin and
his son, the latter 7 years of age :—" The father and
son, accompanied by M. Reimann, the tutor of the
young man, were at seven in the evening in a rather
shallow mill-stream, quite close to the water-lock of
Ischl, in Upper Austria, when, without notice given, the
gates were suddenly opened, and the three gentlemen were
carried away by the torrent. M. Reimann succeeded in
gaining the left bank, and he immediately rushed across the
bridge to the assistance of the Prince and his son, whom he
had seen disappearing on the right of the stream. At the
same time the Princess, who was seated in a sedan chair
looking on, witnessed the whole catastrophe, and at first
mute with terror, she at last fainted, and was in that state
taken to her hotel. The unhappy wife and mother said to
Dr. Hirschfeld, on his coming to her aid, All my fortune
shall be yours if you save my husband and son.' Assistance
was quickly organised ; the Prince was soon found, but he
had received an injury in the head from coming in contact
with a floating piece of wood, and to restore life was
impossible. The body of his son was not recovered until
next morning. The Princess, long an invalid, is in a
critical state. The Emperor of Austria was among the first
to testify his profound sympathy for her in this calamity,
and be begged that she should remove to Smunden in order
to be absent from a locality which must cause her such
poignant recollections."

MURDER AT KIMBOLTON.

-40.

A murder has been committed at Stoneley, near Kim-
bolton, Hunts, in a cottage within 100 yards of the resi-
dence of his Grace the Duke of Manchester. At the inquest,
before W. C. J. Mellor, deputy coroner, it appeared that the
victim of the outrage was an old woman 88 years old, and
that her murderer was her son, a stalwart labourer, about
50. The son has been abandoned by his wife, and has
taken refuge in the miserable hovel occupied by his
mother. The accused, now confined in the County of
Huntingdon Prison, is named GeorgeLecton. On the night
of the 30th ult. the son went home about eleven o'clock ;
his mother, who slept in a bed upon the same floor, had
then retired to rest, the poor old woman being very ill.
The following morning a daughter-in-law went in early,
and found her mother dead. She was lying across the
bed in a slanting direction, with her face buried in
a pillow and a quilt fastened tightly round her neck. The
son was sitting quietly by. When taken into custody he
coolly observed, " She hit me first." Mr. Sprague, sur-
geon, who made a post-mortem examination of the body,
told the jury on Tuesday that in his opinion the deceased
died from violence; that she was rendered partly insensible
by the blows received ; and that her death was completed
by surfooation. A labourer who works with Leeton
that the accused had said that he would lict mailitain his
mother, and that the relieving officer had said she would
have to go into the union. The jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against the son.

FEMALE NOVEL READERS. —A confirmed female
novel reader has many of the habits of a drunkard. She
cannot do without the novel any more than ho can do
without his glass. She will neglect necessary work just
as ho neglects his business. She is just as irritated if you
rzmonstrate with her as he is if you rebuke him. She
sinks into a feverish, excited, indolent habit of mind, very
like the habit of his body, And why? Simply because,
as he has made his stimulus and refreshment a necessary
food, so also has she, wand excitement without
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