The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

MURDER. 1N FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes was occupied two days in
the last week with a case of murder, of which we
gave a short account at the time. •We think it ne-
cessary, however, to state the circumstances more
fully, as they have just been proved in evidence. In
the night of the 19th. of September last, between
eleven and twelve o'clock, the attention of some per-.
sons passing along the Rue d'Arcole, was attracted to
the ruins of some houses, which had been pulled
down to make the opening into the Rue Consthntine,
by feeble cries of distress, and, searching the place,
a man was found lying without his coat, who, on
their speaking to him, declared that he had been as-
sassinated.- He was immediaiely carried to the Hotel
Dieu, where it was discovered that he had five severe
wounds, from one of which, in the abdomen, the
bowels were protruded. He was in a desperate state,
but lived two days, during which he had the use of
his speech. - Questioned by the Magistrates, he gave
his name as Charles Thaveny, a printer, of the Rue
Gracieuse, and stated that on entering the Rue d'Ar-
cole, he was attacked by one or more persons, who
wounded him, and from whom he fled, taking off his
Coat to expedite his pace. He did not say that he
had been robbed, and, indeed, there were found in his
pocket a napoleon and several pieces of silver. He
never gave any indication of his having any know-
ledge or conception of the persons who. had made the
attack. After his death it was discovered that the ac-
count this person had given of himself was fallacious,
that his real name was Charles Augustus 'Pachoux ;
that he was thirty-three years of age; that on coming
to his majority he inherited a property of 40,000 f.,
all of which he dissipated in twelve• months ; and,
during the succeeding years, had been nine times
under sentence for robberies, and other crimes and
offences, and was under the surveillance of the, police,
It was subsequently ascertained that Pachoux lived on
terms of close intimacy, with a Spaniard named'
Salcedo, a journeyman hair-dresser, wlaose reputation
was not much better than his own, that they lodged
together in the same room, and
,were seen together at
ten o'clock in the evening of September 19, drinking
at a public-house in the Rue de l'Arbre Sec, in com-
pany with some • loose women. Salcedo,- •however,
was able to exculpate himself from all participation in
the murder, and was discharged. In 'the course of
his examination, he stated .that he left Pachoux at the
yublic-house. with a young man, about seventeen
years of age, •who came there to join him, but who
was Unknown to Salcedo. After some time suspicion
fell upon a person named Dutertre, confined in the
prison of La Force, on a charge of zobtery, and who
had .been previously condemned for . similar offences.
On being interrogated, he denied all knowledge of
Pachoux, and attempted to set up an alibi; but as
this was immediately disproved he told the following
tale :—He admitted being in company with'Pachoux
and Salcedo. on the evening in question, and added'
that they all three left the public-house together, that
he wished to leave them, but knoWingle had money
about him.; they both set upon him; and Paehoux held
him by the throat while Salcedo rifled him of 60f.
They then ran off, followed by him, towards the
Place du Chatelet, near which he found them di-
viding his money—that in his rage he drew his knife
and attacked them, giving Pachoux a wound, in the
back, and, as he believed, striking Salcedo in the
thigh—that he then returned to the spot where. they
had seized and robbed him in the hope -of finding
some of the money scattered on the ground in the
struggle, but finding none, he took up, the
coat of Pachoux, which he found there, and
put it on, and returned home to a girl named Duron,
with whom he lived, in the Rue Percee. This girl,
however, was interrogated, and gave, accounts which
materially contradicted the statements of Dutertre,
and confirmed all the suspicious circumstances against
him, particularly stating that he came home in a coat
much too long and too wide for him, and which ap-
peared like a disguise. This woman, in her depo-
sitions, inculpated another man, named Collin, who,
the said, accompanied Dutertre to the Place du Cha-
telet,- and afterwards assisted him in conducting Pa-
choux, each taking an arm, to the Rue d'Arcole,
where they threw him on the rubbish where •he was
found. Upon this testimony Collin was included in:
the indictment against Dutertre for the murder. The
witnesses were •very numerous, their evidence was
very long, entirely circumstantial, and in some in-
stances contradictory, but the Avocat-General ex-
pressed his conviction that the guilt of both the
.pri-
soners was fully' established, and called upon the jury
to deliver a verdict accordingly. They, retired at
five o'clock on Saturday, and after an hour's delibera-
ration returned, declaring Dutertre guilty, and ac
quitting Collin. Dutertre was sentenced to hard
labour at the hulks for life, with exposure on the
pilJory. Collin was discharged. Dutertre, when
removed back to the prison, was in a violent state of
exasperation against what he called the injustice of
his condemnation.—French Paper.

THE METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS WESTWARD.
—There are many splendid squares and crescents being erected
opposite Lord Holland's Pat k, on the Uxbridge-road. Shep-
herd's Bush wili soon be joined to London. Kensington New
Town, which is being built on the Earl of Harrington's pro-
perty, extending from Kensington to Old Brompton, came into
the Harrington family through the late Countess, who was
daughter and sole heiress of Sir John Flemming, of Brompton
Park. Sir John left a rent-charge on this estate for the support
of the almshouses which he founded in Cromwell-lane. There
are several widows of life-guardsmen inmates of this charity.
ELOPEMENT.—The good folks of Inverness have
been thrown into some excitement by the elOpement of a
young lady belonging to Invergordon, with a son of Mars.
1 he lady was to have been married soon to another gentleman
of the same profession, a widower; the marriage articles were
even provided, but the faithless one el:mid not resist the charms
of the unwedded South, and so took her route with him to Aber-
deen. On the faith of her marriage, rumour says that the lady
incurred several accounts in Inverness, and that under pro-
ceedings thereanent she has been captured at the above.town.—
Ross Advertiser.