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As to this person, it went on to say, he continued
to enter the grounds at night, and deposit.d. letters
as before. Mme. de Jeufesse knew this ; she even
pretended that she heiself took the letters and de-
stroyed them, and that thus no reply was given to
them. In June her irritation increasedjirnmensely,
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 anycost!" 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 does, arid that even if death
ensue, we shall not be disquieted." In con,equence
of this, every nigbt °repel, armed with his gun, was
on the watch, generally close to the chamber of
the lady. "On the Gth June she said that the
nocturnal visits still continued, and that she had
proofs of them. On.thp Bth she told liiin.thesa,me
thing, and that he must watch all night and tike
rest during the -day. On the 9th stie sat up to a
late hour and did not close her _chamber until one
o'clock. On the 10th she was on eta watch with
Crepel. On the 11th ehe was watching before he
'arrived. In the morning of the 12th she made him
promise to be exact,' but she 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 Crepe!. was alone when
he did it, ho knew that his mistress was on the
watch—and when he had done it h 6 went straight

tr) her chamber. It was therefore clear, the In-
dictment declared, that a voluntary murder had

been committed, and that it had been commanded
by the lady. Crepel had pretended that he had
killed the man by mistake, he having, in his emo-
tion, milled 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 du their duty I should have done what he
has done, if I had been, in his place !" Mrne. de
Jeufosse on her part said, in the hope no doubt
of obtaining the man's silence "Adieu, my poor
Crepel 1 Courage—we will not abandon you 1"
" Yes, yes," answered Crepel, "adieu—courage

—that is 'easy to say ! B.Lit see what it is io
servo faithfully 1 You said, " Kill, kill !" that
there was nothing to fear, that you had consulted
the Procureur Imperial and the examining magis-
trate. And now see my position, lam taken, and
you remain." On the whole, the indictment alleged
that Guillot had been assassinated by the prisoners
in complicity, and that the gamekeeper was only a
guilty instrument, the other throe 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 neces,ity 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 Lave
done so by legitimate means, and would at the same
time have preserved their family honour intact by
maintaining strict secresy. But they preferred to
arm a servant, and tomurder a man in their grounds,
at a few steps from the chateau ? What they did was
an act of vengeance, and it was pitiless ! And now-
justice demands from them an account of the blood
shed !" The president then proceeded to the inter-
rogatory of the prisoner Crepe!, who admitted hav-
ing fired the fatal shot, but be solemnly declared
that his only intention bad been to wound Guillot
slightly in the legs 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'
visits to the grounds ; that she had, in fact., di-
rected him to load his gun with salt, or at lewd
only with shot ; saying, " Give him a peppeting !"
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 at that moment he did
not know that he bad hit the man. He had cried
to him four times before firing. He added that
he bad noticed that Guillot had paid attention to
the governess ; in fact he 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 boating ; but es
Crepel remarked that it might be dangerous to do
so, she replied, " Well, then, fire, and give him a
peppering." Her intention, she declared, had 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
man who persisted in entering the grounds ought
to be fired at, but he denied that it was he who did
so. The court, after hearing, the evidence of some
witnesses, adjourned.

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some one came, but we did not ten \ •
he." " Did you not know that
Over it was, brought lettsr3 ?".
yeti not once tell Medieee de Jetifoge tbat
had heard some one talking with MdiTh.
in her chamber ?" •" I said t hat I thought I had
heard some one, and that I feared ifwas Guihoty
who .was so very impudent. .But I knew; that
Mlle.' Blanche was incapable of giving Min any len-
couragement.'and beside7s it was not in her.cbara-
ter, but-in that of her brother Ernest that I heard
the voices in fact, she had not a chamber to her-
self. he witness was then asked if sonielliing
improper had not taken place t'etween ber and. a
'Young man who had resided with the Cure of St.
Aubin, bnt she -denied it. She Was also asked if
she had not -said to the gamekeeper "Kill all black
animals," knoWing that the "black man" was the
designation given by the servants of the chateau to
Guillot ; and she answered that she did net remem-
ber. M. Odoard Duh tee, a retired officer, deposed
that M. Guillot had spoken in a scandaleus way of
Ml'e. Laurence, and bad used insulting language as
to Mme, de Jeufosse vend that he (witness) threat-
ened to call him to account for so doing. He said
that Guillot had solemnly prote-ted that it was not
he who had entered the grounds, and had recom-
mended that the person who did so should be fired
at. He added that Mme. Guillot had once told him
that her husband had seduced the daughter of a
gamekeeper, and wanted to bring her to reside in their
house. On this Mme', Guillot exclaimed with emo-
tion, " What you say is horrible !" "Says°, if you
please," answered the witness, " the truthisalwaya
horrible to those whose interest it is not tohear it 1"
"What you saris an infamous falsehoods cried
Mme. Guillot. The witness then said that he himself
had consulted a gentleman, who had represented
himself to be the examining magistrate of Lou-
viers, as to what could be done with a person who
entered private grounds at night, and that that
magistrate had said that he might he shot at. "It
is possible, hieiever," continued the witness,
" that he may have added the words, if he be a
malefactor.' " M. Tripet, formerly vice-consul of
France at Moscow, deposed that Guillot had
spoken in a shameful way both of -Mlle. 14 ‘nrencEi-
atild,Mlle. Blanche, and that a rapture between
him and the de Jeufosses•had tiken place in conse-
quence. Witness admitted that he had dvised
Madame de Jeufosse to dismiss Mile. Laurence be-
cause her manner with men was too bo'd, tail be-
cause he had observed what appeared to hiu to be
too much familiarity between her end Guillot
but that lady had iefused; saying tint she had
motives for keeping her. As he did not know
what the reasons were, he had asked Guillot if he
knew them, and that pers.ei. had answered that
there were two—one, in 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 fur
vengeance ; when, however, she 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 rezpecte
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 I" 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. Ho added that since the
event he had learmei that Guillot bad 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 ashich Ernest de Jeufosse had
written to his brother, warning him that he (Er-
nest) bad given orders to "fire at the ghosts" which
visited the grounds of the chateau, tee said letter
having been intercepted and kept back by Madame
Guillot. At this stage of the case the court ad-
journed.

FEARFUL COLLISION ON THE NORTH
LONDON RAIL WAY.

Yesterday morning .a veryseriou3 collision took
place near the Hackney-wick station (Victoria
Park) of the North London Railway, which pe-
tilled the lives of several passengers, and caused a
consid,rable loss of the company's property. It
arose 'froth 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
Camden-town. Fortunately but low 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 clal-trucks
coming on to the down line from a siding on the
north-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 signal had teen made
to wain Latham of the moving of the ttucks 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 en
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 seriously
—a, circumstance most providential, considering
the character of the collision. The escape of two
boys who were in the first compartment, on their
way to school, .was somewhat marvellous. They
either jumpei 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 was 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 tram
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.

THE DREADFUL STEAMSHIP COLLISION
OFF YARMOUTH.

SUPPOSED TOTAL LOSS OF THE RAPID
STEAMER.
The collision which took place on Sunday night,
off Yarmouth, between the Waterford and Miltord
Haven steamer New Pelton and the London and
Edinburgh steamship Rapid (as announced by tele-
graph in this journal on Tuesday), has resulted in
the loss of the litter vtssel and a valuable cargo.
She was nearly a new steamer, 500 toes burthen,
built of iron, and was on her passage to L3ndon,
from Edinburgh, when she met with the accident.
The night being dark and weather somewhat hazy,
the captain, on reaching the Yarmouth roads, took
the outer course to the eastward of the Newarp
Light ship, and was proceeding at full speed with
the usual lights exhibited, when suddenly the look-
out descried a screwsteamer coming right down upon
them from the southward, and almost immediately
both vessels came in fearful contact. The other
steamer (which proved to be the New Pelton, bound
to the North for coals, was in ballast) almost imme-
diately backed out and got clear of the Rapid, and
soon lost sight of the latter, owing to the fog, and
not hearing anything of her afterwards, the master
and crew supposed that she had gone down. The
New Pelton then put back to Lowestoft Roads,
where she brought up with her bows completely
stove in, almost a wreck. The captain of the Rapid
finding his vessel was fast filling with water, and
that it Was impossible to keep her afloat, deter-
auaabeihng
mined, fox the preservation of the lives of the pas-
sengers and crew, to run the ship on the Cross
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crew safe in them.
About five o'clock they were picked up by some
fishermen in their boats, who proceeded immediately
apnreoviously,
for Yarmouth, where they landed them, about nine
o'clock.
On the news of the ship's loss being telegraphed
to Lloyd's, a Captain Russell was despatched by
the first train to Yarmouth, to report the condition
of the wreck, and at the same time telegraphs were
sent to Whitstable for divers to proceed direct to
the sands, to act under Captain Russell's advice.
The ship, however, and the chief bulk of her cargo,
are expected to become a total loss, for by the
accounts brought to Yarmouth on Tuesday by boat-
men, from the spot where the ship is, she appears
to be fast disappearing in the sands, and a heavy
sea beating over her. She bad about thirty passen-
gers on board at the time of the collision, most of
whom lost the whole of their baggage. The ship
and cargo were insured at Lloyd's.

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