The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-10 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

The Court of Assizes of the Bas Rhin was occupied on
the 29th and 30th ult. with the following extraordinary
case. In August last, two soldiers, in garrison at Stras-
burg, named Tschupp and Bigallet, crossed the frontier
into Baden to pass the day. On their return, and when
on a bridge, Tschupp said to Bigallet, who was nearly
intoxicated, " Come and see how strong the water runs."
Bigallet went to the side of the bridge, and having leant
forward to look at the water, Tschupp suddenly laid
hold of him and threw him in ; then, supposing, as a
matter of course, that the man must be drowned, as the
current was strong, and he was not in a state to help
himself, hurried to Stra,burg, and entered his barracks
before the gates were closed. Providence, however, had
willed that this atrocious act should not remain con-
twisted. The bridge is built on boats, and the fall of
B Ballet was broken by one of the cabels by which they
are fastened together. After his first immersion, which
completely cured him of his intoxication, he caught
by this rope, and, after struggling for a great time,
his cries were heard by some boatmen, just as he was
sinking from exhaustion, and they saved him. The'
dismay of Tschupp was very great on the following
morning, when he saw living the man whom he supposed
to be dead. Bigallet made his declaration, and Tschupp
was arrested. At first he declared that he bad not
been in company with Bigallet ; but several witnesses,
who had seen them drinking together during the day,
having come forward. to prove this fact, the prisoner
was confound( d. Still, however, he refused to confess
his crime, which was unaccountable, as the two soldiers
were supposed to be friends. 'When Tschupp had been
in prison for some time, he resolved to avow his guilt.
and declared that he had been induced by the wife of the
man who keeps the cantine, whose name is Caphiot, to
commit the deed.
.This woman, in whose service he was,
had, he said, told him that Bigallet, her former servant,
and with whom she had entertained criminal relations,
was constantly extorting money
from her, on a menace
of apprising her husband of what had taken place, and
that she was therefore resolved to get rid of him. She
told the prisoner that if he would take Bigallet out for
the day, and in the evening throw him into the river,
she would reward the act liberally, and she gave him
la to spend, in order that he might so overpower
Bigallet with drink as to render him incapable of resist-
ance. Tschupp said that he objected to commit the
crime, but the woman told him that if he refused she
would stab him ; and that, therefore, partly from fear,
and partly from the hope of reward, he at last consented.
The woman was taken into custody, and both were tried
for the attempt to commit murder. The evidence on the
trial fully corroborated the statement of Tschupp as to
the female, and they were both found guilty ju
ry.
Tschupp .the
Tschupp was condemned to twenty years imprisonment
with bard labour, and exposure on the pillory. The
female prisoner was condemned to ten years imprison-
ment with hard labour, but without exposure on the
pillory.

SENDING AN INFANT IN A BASKET TO TUB FBMALE
Onrxere ASYLUX.—Between the hours of six and seven
o'clock on Friday evening last, two respectably attired women
met a lad of the name of James Burrows, in Back Berry-
street, and, handing him a basket with a handle to it, told
him to take it to the Female Orphan Asylum, Myrtle-street.
They said that, emit contained glass, he was to be particularly
careful not to break it or knock up against any person in the •
streets through which he passed; and for the trouble he was
to have in conveying it to its destination they gave him a
piece of money, which he put in his pocket, and which they
said was 6d. The lad proceeded on his errand, and on being
admitted to the institution, the basket was opened, and, un-
derneath a pile of children's caps, petticoats, handkerchiefs,
and socks, there was found a very fine healthy-looking
female infant, fast asleep. By its side was lying a bottle
filled with milk, and a paper, written in a good female hand,
of which the following is a copy :—" Christian friends, pray
take care of this dear little orphan. I will send you a sum
in a few days." The inmates of the institution were, of
course, much surprised ; the lad, perhaps, much more so
than any body else. He could only give the explanation
whichewe have already given, that he received it from the
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women, and was told that it was glass. He stated, and
the statement proved correct, that he resided at No. 3,
Back Berry-street, the street in which the baskete
B aidarm,
handed to him ; and that one of the women appeared to
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gown,
bonnet; and the younger one, who most probably was the
mother of the infant, in a black mantilla, and white straw
bonnet. He did not omit to mention that they had given
him a piece of money for his trouble; but, on putting his
hand in his pocket and drawing it forth, it turned out, not to
be a sixpence merely, as they informed him it was, but a half-
sovereign. All subsequent search to discover the women has
proved unavailing; but the child, we need scarcely say,
having been once received within the hospitable doors of the
institution in question, is sure, even if they should never be
discovered, to have all its wants supplied. The basket which
contained the sleeping innocent was new, and had apparently
been bought for the purpose. It was composed of a soft
substance, something like matting, and was about 2 feet in
length, and 9 inches in breadth. It has since been sent to
the Commissioner's office, together with the milk-bottle, caps,
petticoats, &c., in order to enable the police officers the better
to trace the women.—Liverpool Albion.
PERTH POTATO TRADE.—After a comparative
lull of a fortnight, the shipment of potatoes for London has
become it )re brisk within these few days, and prices for the
best samples now reach 10s. 3d., and in some cases a shade
higher. There are at present eight vessels busily loading
for the south, and one with diseased roots for Newburgh.
The Belgium trade in that article appears already at an end,
as we hear of no more cargoes for that quarter. From the
r country we hear that the disease is still progressing, but at
diminished speed, which gives a hoe that in a few weeks
t it will wholly disappear.—Perth A*atissr,