The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-09 00:00:00

MURDER OF a MAN ay HIS WIFE.
The Court of Assizes of the Oise was engaged on
the 27th and 28th ult. with the trial of the widow
Dupain for the murder of her husband, whose body
was found in an oven on the 30th of June last at
Compiegne. It appeared from the evidence that Du-
pain and his wife lived together on very bac( terms, he
accusing her of having improper connection with his
son, and she upbraiding him with living with a girl
named Ducarroy. In the year 1835 he left his wife
altogether, and took up his residence with the other
woman, and about the same time sold his house
and kept the whole of the price to himself.
This sale and the application of the money was an
additional cause of difference between Dupain and
his wife. In 1837 Dupain was engaged to do some
mason work in the prison at Senlis, and was there ex-
horted by the chaplain so strongly to give up his evil
course of life, that he determined to quit the woman with
whom he was cohabiting, and return to his family at
Compiegne. He previously made a pilgrimage to
Notre:-Dame de Liesse and in 1837 he againentered
the house where his wife was residing. Their differ-
ences continued, however, just as badly as before, and
the neighbours frequently heard them quarrelling. A
person named Brabant heard one night loud cries for
help proceeding from Dupain's wife. He went down to
the street, and was about to interfere, when, considering
that this might be only an ordinary quarrel, he thought
it as well to leave the matter as it was. From that
night Dupain was seen no more, and none of the
neighbours could say what had become of him. His
wife gave different accounts of his absence, at one
time saying that he was living at Senlis, at another
time that she knew nothing about him. In 1840 she
appeared before a notary to signify her consent to
the marriage of her son, and then assumed the
quality of widow. On his remarking that the cer-
tificate of her husband's decease ought to be pro-
duced, she got an act drawn up, stating that he had
disappeared in 1837. Eight days before the discovery
of the body, she averred to two witnesses that she
had seen her husband at Chapel-en-Serval, on her
way to Paris. The discovery of the body was as
fblloWs :—A woman named Francceur, wishing to
use the oven, which was common to the several
inhabitants of the house, perceived a thick smoke
to issue from the lower part. She informed the
prisoner of the fact, adding that there was a strong
smell of burnt linen, and with some difficulty per-
suaded her to have a mason sent for. The man deter-
mined on opening the part below the oven, formerly
used as a rabbit-hutch, and, on removing the mason-
work and a quantity of stones piled up inside, wag
horrified at beholding a body, in a sitting pos!,,ctre,
fully clothed in winter attire, the cravat alo:,e being
wanting. The body was in a co;nplete state
of mummification, and was imr,ediately recog-
nised as being that of ilapain. In the
pocket of his jacket were a prayer-book and a medal,
arising probably from his pilgrimage to Notre-
Dame de Liesse, three letters from the woman he
lived with (dated 1837), and Three notes on different
matters. The question r". once presented itself, how
did the body get into this strange position ? The
prisoner tried to ae_
.;ount for it in various ways. At
one time she spoke of suicide, but if, it was observed
to her, he ha!, put an end to his existence, how
did he get into the cavity ? She then suggested
that b, might have descended by the chim-
ney tSf the oven, and placed himself in the
I,',..•ktion in which he was found ; but, on exa-
-mination, it was discovered that there was no com-
munication between the two. Another suggestion of
hers %% as that he had built up the orifice himself
from the interior, but it was found that not only
had the mason work been executed from the out-
side, but that she had herself employed a man,
named Hautman, in 1837, to stop up the open-
ing. It was proved also that she had never
left him during the time he was so employed,
and had given him snuff to enable him to continue
his work, a dreadful smell having proceeded from
the hole. She had also, for some time afterwards,
been in the habit of throwing filthy matters near the
place, to lead persons to suppose that the offensive
odour proceeded from them. The jury, after three-
quarters of an hour's deliberation, brought in a ver-
dict of guilty of murder without premeditation, Wand
the Court sentenced the prisoner to hard labour for
life at the hulks. On hearing this sentence, the
wretched woman fell back insensible, and the gen-
darmes were obliged to carry her out of Court._
Galignanz's Messenger.

MANSLAUGHTER OF A CABMAN.
On Tuesday evening an adjourned inquest was
held by Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
on the body of George Briggs, cab proprietor, aged
forty-two, of No. 31, Richard-street, Liverpool-
road, Islington. Some of the particulars connected
with the death of the deceased have already been
published, and the brief facts will be found in the
following narrative :—On Monday evening, the Bth
ult., three well-dressed men engaged the deceased's
cab at Islington-green, to overtake a phaeton which
was returning to Barnet, and agreed to give him 3s.
On reaching Highgate-archway they came up with
the phaeton and jumped into it. The deceased seized
the reins of the horse, and insisted upon having his
fare, the men (who it is supposed were going to the
fight between I;angaree and Martin) having paid him
but 2s. Q-ne of the men said he would give deceased
a smrake of tobacco, and that was all ; and the latter
replied that he could not afford to be cheated, as he
had a wife and six children. The accused then got
out of the phaeton, which belonged to Mr. Salmon,
postmaster of Barnet; and in which were Mr. Murphy,
a tailor of Barnet, and his son, and one of the men'
declared he would soon settle the deceased. The de-
ceased was then pushed away from the horse's head,
and the phaeton drove on, and in a few minutes
afterwards Catharine Fowndes, a passer by, heard
the deceased fall to the ground, his leg snap, and a
cry of "Murder" and "Police." The police came up
and removed the deceased to the above hospital, and
it was discovered that the bones of one of his legs
protruded through the skin. On the following Friday
he became delirious, and on the succeeding Thursday
his leg was amputated by Mr. Lloyd, the surgeon,
but death relieved his sufferings on Saturday, the 20th
ult. The three men who committed the outrage
escaped the vigilance of the police, and evidence as
to their identity was gone into at considerable length
on Tuesday night, but the ends of justice might be
perverted by publishing the details. The Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Manslaughter against some
persons unknown," and censured Cook, the driver of
the phaeton, and the two Murphys, for not assisting
in apprehf_mding the accused parties when they heard
the cry of murder. The Coroner having addressed
the parties in pursuance of the suggestion of the Jury,
the numerous witnesses were bound to appear when
ealleil upon, awl the inquest terminated at nine o'clock

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
SODA WATLR.

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the superior quality of the -:rated Water produced by
their manufactory, and they have scorned to have -re-
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in order to extend the sale of their own productions by
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for them by the public, both at home and abroad,
that they have hitherto treated the insinuations
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still to be obtruded on the public, R. and S. feel
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mar ehibld the public to judge for themselves. If R. and
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it was never to mislead the public as to connexion with
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and Co., —an undoubted fact, or doubtless it would have
been denied. For five and twenty years, during the very
period that the waters sold by Schweppe gave to that
name ail the celebrity it ever obtained, Mr. Summers
was the engineer and manufacturer of the waters sold
by that house in London, Derby, and Bristol. It is
many years since any person, having the slightest
connexion with the name or family of the late Mr.
Schweppe, has been connected with any house in the
trade. In the year 1834, the proprietor of the busi-
ness carried on under the name of Schweppe and Co.
sold his interest to persons with whom R. and S
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for their own mutual profit. Whether the waters since
manufactured by the present firm of Schweppe and Co,
retain the quality which acquired for that house all its
celebrity, R. and S. decline to give an opinion ; but, in
justice to themselves, they do, with the most perfect con-
fidence
and good faith, say that—highly as some ma-
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their name (expensive an item as bottles are), and diffi-
cult as it is to prevent retail tradesmen from returning
wrong ones—there is no bottle bearine, any other than
their own, however celebrated, to which Roughsedge and
Summers would wish to add the reputation to be derived
from filling them with waters of their own manufactory.
ROUCHSEDGE and SummEas only desire such patronage
as may be deserved from the Arated Waters produced
at their own manufactory, and sold under the labels of
their own name.-37, Bridge-street, Bristol.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.--WORTHING. SEPT. 7
Yesterday afternoon the town was thrown into consider-
able excitement by the suicide of Mr. Richard Parker,
who, although latterly reduced in circumstances, was
universally respected in the town and neighbourhood.
The deceased, it is reported, was unable to meet some
bills which he had accepted for a nephew, and he be-
came low-spirited, and, on Tuesday afternoon, he walked
into the sea with only part of his clothes on, and soon
disappeared. A boat was put off, and the body shortly
afterwards.recoyered and removed--to the Parisian baths,
where Mr. Nortlie ootrand -ethers iNeri every effort to
ore animation. but without effect. Deeeaspd
yew back filled she office of Mayor of Anwar

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