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London, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

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le• . in her chamber F' "I said Chet I thought I had
- heard some one, and that I feared it was Guillot,
who was so very itnpudbnt. But I knew that
.iwarmaeracnsaiw.r.a.samesii. .110" Mlle. Blanche was incapable of giving him any. en-
cootegement and besides-ie. we. net in her ceatne - '
' • ter, but in that of-her brat er- Ernest Ilia, I heard
; tie voice- ; el face she had not ,a ointqrb-Ir to her.
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-el L. improper tete not taken iliac. tetwcen licr and a -
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as
.e.e., eiit sue eeieee. it. She was also asked if
prep' she had not said to the gamekeeper " Kill all black
'Con was strop.
aeim:als," knowing that the "black man"' was the
tleman them. designation given by the servants of the chateau-to
dead and to a Guillot ; and she nnswertd that sbe did not remem-
ler- what was ber. M. Odoard Duhlv., a retired officer, deposed
tared, and that M. Guillot had spoken in a scandalous way of
enough. Y. Mlle. Laurence, and had used insulting language as
made to my h to Mme. de Jeufosse ; and that he (witness) threat-
erred to call him to account for so doing, Ho said
cur of his nun
that :Guillot had soleMnly prote-ted,that- it was not
I put an enet
.he Who had teetered the grounds, and-had recOm-
at aver cost!:
at.nic mended
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have both te
• this man G that her husband had seduced the daughter of a
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gatnekeeper,and wanted tibring ber tlresidein their •
light Crept house. On this Mine-, Guillot exclaimed with enao-
lenerally , tion,,'‘ What yAr say is horrible !" " Say so, if you
the Gth ee please," answered the witness, " the truth isalways
11 contin. hol r3alo to those whose interest it is not to hear it I"
the Bth to " What you say is an infamous falsehoo .1 I" cried
st watch Mme. Guillot.. The witness then said that he himself
a the 9t. had consulted a gentleman, who. had represented
ce her CI. himself to be the examining magistrate of Lou-
was on viers; as to what could be done witli a person who
et watct. entered private grounds at night, and that that -
12th e magistrate had said that he might be ahot at: "It
;d thae
is possible, however," continued the withess,,
serve. " that he may have added the words, - 'if ho be a
the c. malefactor." M. Tripet, formerly, vice-consul of
alon France at Moscow, deposed that Guillot hid
was spoken in a shameful way both of Mlle. Llurence
*Ott,
..and Mile. Blanche, and that !IL rupture 100rupri
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:' *MOIL awl the -ed Jeu fosse4 heti:Wien pleCe iu.corite-
-I'4 ritrence. Witness admitted that lie bad , dvit,ed.
Madame de Jeufosse to dismiss Mlle. Laurence We-
ld cause her manner with men was too bo'd, and be-
' 1 cause he had observed what appeared to him to be
too much familiarity between her and Guillot et
but that lady had refused, saying th-tt she had
motives for keeping her. As he did •not know
what the reasons were, ho had asked Guillot if he
knew them, and • that pers• n had answered that
there were two—one, iu which he did not believe,
and the other, which he would never tell. The
witness said.that it was he who had announced.to
Madame Guillot the death of her husband ; the
poor woman was distracted, and called loudly for
vengeance ; when, however, 6fie became calmer,
she said that she did not think it was Mlle.
•
Blanche her husband had gone after, as he had
always spoken of that young lady with respect.
Before he went to Madame Guillot witness had
been at the chateau of Jeufosse, and had suggested
that it was not right to leave the dead body of
Guillot on the ground, that lady had answered
" Act as if you were in your own house !" and he
sent out a sheet to cover it until the arrival of the
authorities ; the idea of putting it on a mattress ,
had not occurred to him. He added that since the
event he had learned that Guillot had spoken of -
Mlle. Blanche at a club at Gaillon in such scandal-
ous terms that he could not help considering him a
scoundrel. M. P. Guillot, brother of the deceased,
produced the letter which Ernest de Jeufosse had
written to his brother, warning him that he (Er- •
nest) had given orders to "fire at the ghests" which
visited the grounds of the chateau, 'the said letter
having been intercepted and kept back by Madame
Guillot. At this stage of the case the court ad-
journed..

[PAIOE 40. STAMPICD

As. to this person, it went on to say, be continued
to enter the grounds.at night, and deposited letters
as before. Mme. de Jeufosse knew this ; she eve,-,
pretended that she herself took the letters and de=
stroyed them, and that thus no reply was given to
them. In June her irritation increasedjimmensely,
and to act on the mind of her guard she asserted
what was false—that her apartments had been en-
tered, and she said, " You do not watch well
enough. You do not remember the promise you
made to my husband. You do not support the ho-
nour of his name and that of my children. You
must put an end to the scandal of these nocturnal
visits at any cost!'And she added, ,"
Fear nothing.
The Procureur-Imperial and the examining ma
gistrate have both told me that we can fire on those
who act as this man doe., and that even if death
ensue, we shall not be.disquieted." In'consequence
of this, every night Crepe]; armed with his gun, was
on the watch, generally close to the chamber of
the' lady. On the Gth June she said that tha
nocturnal visits still continued, and that she had
proofs of them. On the Bth she told him the same
Clung, and that he must watch all night and tike
rest during the day. • On the 9th she sat up to a

. late hour and did not close her chamber until one
o'clock. On the, 10th she was on the watch with
Crepel. On the 11th She was watching before he
arrived. In the morning of the 12th she made Lim
promise to be exact, but sbe said that she could
not'come to him, as she feared the servants would
see her. It was on that night that the crime was
-committed ; and though Crepel was atone when
he did it, he knew that his mistress was on the
-watch—and when he had done it he went sttaigl4,
to her chamber. It was therefore clia'ff'theln•-:
dictment-declared, that a voluntary inukier: hacte-
been committed, and that it had been commanded
by the lady. Crepel had pretended that he had
killed the man by mistake, ho having, in his emo-
tion; pulled the trigger of the barrel of his gun,
whiCh was loaded with slugs, when he had intended
to pull that of the other barrel, which was only
loaded with shot ; but that version was not only
improbable, but it appeared that the shot at the
distance from which he fired would • haVe caused
death. The day after, when Crepel was arrested,
Alfred de Jeufosse said with great excitement, in

presence of the. magistrates : "There are few good
servants, and yet see how they are treated when
they do their duty ! I should have done what he
has done, if I had been in his place !" Mut). de
Jeufosse on her part said, in the hope no doubt
of obtaining the man's silence : "Adieu, my poor
Crepel ! Courage—we will not abandon you 1"
" Yes, yes," answered Crepel, " adieu—courage
—that is easy to say ! But see what it is to
serve faithfully ! You said, "Bill, kill !" that
there was nothing to fear, that you had consulted
the Procureur Imperial and the examining magis-
trate. And now E ee my position, I am taken, and
you remain." On the whole, the indictment alleged
that Guillot had been assassinated by the prisoners
in complicity, and that the ga.tnekeeper was only a
guilty instrument, the other three being morally re-
sponsible. "Whatever," it said in conclusion,
"may have been the conduct of Guillot, and how-
ever severely it may be appreciated, there is in fa-
vour of the prisoners no legal excuse; they were
under no necessity of defence, and had no legitimate
motive for repelling a nocturnal attack. They dis-
dained to call the authorities to check the proceed-
ings of Guillot, though the authorities would have
done so by legitimate means, and would at the same
time have preserved their family honour intact by
m tintaining strict secresy. But they preferred to
arm a servant, and to murdera man in their grounds,
at a few steps from the chateau 1 What they did was
an act of vengeance, and it was pitiless ! And now
justice demands from them an account of the blood
shed I" The president then proceeded to the inter-
rogatory of the prisoner Crepel, who admitted hay-
ing fired the fatal shot, but he solemnly declared
that his only intention bad been to wound Guillot

FEARFUL COLLISION ON THE NORTH
LONDON RAILWAY.

Yl sterday morning a very serious collision tcok
place near the Hackney-wick station (Victoria
Park) of the North London Railway, which pe-.
rilled the lives of several passengers, and caused a
considerable loss of the company's property. It
arose from the somewhat dangerous custom of
shunting and running coal trains during the busy_
passenger traffic. At 25 minutes past eight a train
left the Bow station (the company's depot) for
Cainden-town. Fortunately but Jew passengers
were in the train. The morning was very hazy,
more particularly so about the line in the vicinity
of Hackney-wick, owing to the fog which overhung
the neighbouring marshes. The train was proceed-
ing at its usual rate, when the engine-driver,
Joshua Latham, saw a train of empty coal-trucks
coming on to the down line from a siding on the
nor-h-east side of Hackney-wick station, on -its way
over to the up line, so as to proceed to the coal de-
pot at Poplar. Whether any sign.ll had Leen made
to warn Latham of the moving of the tiueks from
the siding has not been ascertained. On noticing
the obstruction he instantly shut off his steam, but
the distance was too short to bring the train 'to a
halt in time to avoid the mischief that ensued. The
engine No. 2 of the passenger train dashed into the
coal train with great force, making a passage clean
through, and hurling the whole of the trucks
in the hinder part of the train in all directions oa
the up line, the sides of the carriages being stove
in. As is the practice with down trains on this
railway, the tender was in advance of the engine,
and it was completely smashed up by the violence
of the collision. The escape of the driver and
stoker was most surprising. The guard and Mr.
Forster, inspector of the line, were in the break,
and although knocked about by the shock, they lost
no time in relieving the passengers. Those in the
first carriage were much injured, but none so iously
—a circumstance most providential, considering
the character of the collision. This escape of two
boys who were in the first compartment, on their
way to school, was somewhat marvellous. They
either jumped-or were thrown out of the carriage,
and were found on the side of the road uninjured.
Had the mishap occurred an hour or so later, when
the trains are crowded, a most sad loss of life must
have ensued. The line wits blocked up for some
time.. Mr. King, one of the superintendents, was
early in attendance, directing the clearance of the
wreck, but it was nearly noon before the trains
could pass through. It is usual when a coal train
is being taken out of a siding on to the main line,
to telegraph the fact to the next station, and it is
clear that if this had been done on this occasion,
and the driver been warned at Bow, the accident
might have been prevented.

slightly in the logs with shot. He also declared that
Mine. de Jeufosse had bad no other intention, in
telling him to fire at Guillot, than to frighten the
latter, so as to make him discontinue his nocturnal

visitsto the grounds; that she had, in fact, di-

rected him to load his gun with salt, or at feait
only with shot ; saying, " Give him a peppering !"
After firing he had gone to her chamber, where

she was With her daughter, to tell her that he

had fired at some one, but A that moment he did
not know that he had hit the man. He had cried

to him four times before firing. He added that
he had noticed that Guillot had paid attentinn.to
the governess ; in fact ho had spoken of her to
him in improper terms. Madame de Jeufosse, in
answer to questions put to her, said she had broken
off with Guillot because she had learned that he

had spoken in an improper manner of her daughter
and the governess. She had seized four letters de-

posited by him in the grounds. (One of them, ad-
dressed to Mlle. Blanche, was read, It professed
violent love for, and concluded by calling her "his

soul, his life, his all.") To get rid of the man she
directed Crepel to give him a good beating ; but as
Crapel remarked that it might be dangerous to do
so, she replied, " Well, then, fire, and give him a
peppering." Her intention, she declared, bad been
to frighten him, and not to have him killed. The
two young men made similar statements, and the
elder said that Guillot had himself said that the

nan who persisted in entering the grouods.ought

to be fired at, but he denied that it fives he who aid
so. The court, after heating the evidence of some
witnesses, adj,,wrned.

SECOND DAY.

The Court of Assiz:,s of the Eure yesterday-
morning proceeded with this case, and received evi-
dence iu support of the indictment against Madame
de Jeufosse, her two sons, and their gamekeeper
Crepel, on the charge of having intentionally caused
the death of M. Guillot in the grounds of the cha-
teau of Jeufosse. A medical man described the
nature of the wounds which the deceased had re-
ceived, and another, Dr. Cune, his regular physi-
cian, who had happened to meet his (a uillot's)
servant just after the death had taken place, said
that on speaking to Madame de Jeufosse on the
melancholy affair, she had expressed herself in a
manner which proved that she thought herself jus-
tified in causing any man who entered her grcunds
at night to be tired at. Gros, servant to Gallia,
deposed that he had often accompanied his master
in his nocturnal visits to the grounds, and he
thought that the object of them was to deposit let-
ters for some in the chateau. He had noticed when
serving at table and on other occasions, that
glances of intelligence were exchanged between his
master and Mlle. Laurence (the governess), and he
had once aeon her press his hand. He described the
shooting of his master, as related in the indictment,
and he declared that though the servants of the cha-
teau had seen his master writhing in agony on the
ground they had offered no assistance. The coachman
and other servants of the chateau deposed to the man-
ner in which Guillot bad annoyed the ladies, by
throwing himself in their way in their walks and
drives, and by penetrating into the grounds at
night ; they also said that some days before the
death of Guillot some one had entered the apart-
ments of the chateau, upset the furniture, and put
mud on a portrait of the husband of Mme. de
Jeufosse ; and they asserted, in contradiction to
Gros, that they had gone to Guillot after he had
been shot, and had even given him a glass of water,
which was all he had asked for. A man named
Corbeau, formerly gardener to Mme. de Jeufosse,
said that that lady having in the winter perceived
that some one entered her grounds at night had tol
him to watch with a gun, but only to charge his
gun with salt. This man was asked if he had not
stated to several persons that Mine. de Jeufosse
had offered him 50f. to fire at Guillot not merely
with salt but with shot. He denied that he had
done so, but he was positively contradicted on the
point by several witnesses ; one of them oven said
that on hearing that Guillot had been killed, he
exclaimed, I
" Well I am glad it is Crepel who did
the job, and not ! If I had done it, I should
now be in an awkward position !" After a com-
missary of police, a captain of gendarmery, and
other witnesses had deposed to various circum-
stances mentioned in the indictment, Mdlle.
hLaurenceer wascalleb
t
zereyx,citthede governess,
great curiosity,
she did not seem to be at all troubled
. u.
at it ; she is
appearance
and has a strong
not remarkable for good looks,
Norman accent. She said that after the acquaint-
ance between the de Jeufosses and the Guillots
commenced, Guillot was constantly paying corn
pliments, and trying to speak to her in secret, but
she had always repelled him, and had told Madame
de Jeufosse of his conduct. " Did you never reply
to what he said," asked the president. "Oh !
never, sir." Did you never let him press your
hand, or did you never press his 1" " Oh ! never."
"Did you notice that he afterwards paid attention
to Mdlle. Blanche de Jeufosse 1" "I saw that he
acted towards Mdlle. Blanche as he acted
towards
me, but of course, she treated him as I did. She
repelled all his advances. Yet he '
was not content
with annoying us, but tried to compromise us."
" You say positively that Mdlle. Blanche repelled
his advances 1" " Without any manner of doubt."
" Yet you knew that he came into the groundc at
night ?" " All of 118 in the chateau knew ',that