Star.
London, England, 1829-01-03 00:00:00

MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE.

A murder has, within the last few days, been com-
mitted at St. Lo (France). which has caused a great
sensation in the neighbourhood. Ft ancis Lebaron, the
man who was murdered, was the occupier of a small
farm near St. Lo, was about 22 years of age, and had
been married for a few years to a woman some months
younger than himself, and who is said to be rery beau
tifol. They, however, did not live happy together, and
the woman was Olen heard to threaten her husband,
it'd to express the most deadly hatred towards him.
She had complained to the police a few months
since of having been severely beaten by her hus•
hand, and exhibited several bruises and wounds, which
she said had been inflicted by him; but she con•
fessed, on being strictly examined, that she bad
made them herself, for the purpose of getting rid
of a husband whom she detested. A few days ago the
police was informed that the dead body of Lebaron
had been fund in his own stable; he was clothed, and
his hat was on the ground near him. On examination
it was obvious that he had been murdered; but his
clothes were neither torn nor bloody, nor did they beat
any appearance of violence having been used; bait, on
taking them cff, upwards of forty wounds, which had
recently been inflicted, were found on various parts of
the body, and especially one on the back part of the
head, which had evidently been given with some heavy
blunt insrrument,and had fractured the skull,and proba-
bly occasioned immediate death. The wife, on hearing
of the death of her husband, uttered the most violent
screams and lamer,tations, and was not pacified without
great difficulty. Notwithstanding these appearances, she
was strongly suspected, and. a man of the name of
Vauttier, who bore a very bad character, and who re-
sided in the neighbt.urhood of Lebaron, was strongly
suspected of being concerned ; he was arrested, and
some spots of blood were found on his clothes, and
being severely questioned, he became embarrassed and
contradicted himself, and at last confessed that he
and the wife of the deceased had committed the mur.'or.
She at first denied the charge, but afterwards admitted
that it was the case. According to their confessions,
it appears that at about ten o'clock of the night of the
murder, Vauttier called at the house of Lebaron,
who was then in bed and asleep; but he saw the
female prisoner, who urged him to kill her husband,
and promised him a large sum of money for so doing
Vauttier, armed with a heavy hammer, then struck
Lebaron on the head, who, on rising from the bed, re.
ceived a second blow on the head, which kiled him.
The wife of the deceased, who was present, cut his
throat, and inflicted a great number of wounds on the
body with a knife. When the body was on the ground
she jumped on it, and mutilated it in a most horriblt
and revolting manner. These wretches then drank a
bottle of bratofy; alter which they clothed the body
and conveyed it to the stable, for the purpose of
making it appear that the crime had been con.mstted by
strangers, and then endeavoured to erase all marks of
blood from the chamber. The woman afterwards went
to bed, and slept till late in the morning. 0 one of the
labourets iaquiting for his master, she observed—that
' after having led the horses, she supposed 1w had got.e
to his father's, as she had not se.n him." The boJ)
was shortly afterwards di•covered by tie man in the
stable. Vaut ier asserted that while drinking the brandy,
and while the body of her murdered husband was before
her, she remarked—the only thing that embarrassed her
was, how she should be able to assume an appearance
o of grief on the morrow, and shed tears. The trial is to
take place at the ensuing Assizes.

The Treasurership of the Catholic Rent appears to be
founded upon a true Irish principle—that of accounting
for the receipts, but saying nothing about the disburse-
menus.

So frequent and daring have become the nightly de.
predations in the neighbourhood of Lisson-green and
Portland Town, that the inhabitants are neither safe in
their houses, nor able to leave them in security.
Grain of all kinds—maize, the seeds- r f cruciform
plants, potatoes, &e. by treatment with chlorine are
much increased in vegetative power, are sooner ripe,
and produce a crop three or four times as *feat as that
obtained under ordinary circumstances. fhe process
is to steep the seed 12 hours in river water (never in
well-water), then 14 or 15 drops of a strong solution of
chlorine is to be added for each quart of water, the
whole well mixed, and the maceration of the seed con-
dotted for six hours longer in the sunlight, and under a
bell glass, or for want of a bell glass under a cover
made with oiled paper. The seed is then to be sepa-
rated from the liquid on a cloth, and for the conveni-
ence of sowing mixed with a sufficient quantity of
cinders, sand, or dry earth. When sown, the "rater of
maceration is to be poured OM the ground.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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GUILDHALL.
Thomas Mims. who was chatted with defrauding Mr. Upset,
a pawnbroker, hi Barbican, by pledging several lumps of metal
with him, falsely representing them to be standard silver, was
brought up fur final examination.
Geutge Johnston stated that bekbad been employed to assay the
pieces of metal, and he found them to be a mixture of tip and lead.
The prisoner put several questions to the prosecutor, which were
unimportant. and stated in his defence that be had been led into
embarrassments front paying high interest to the prosecutor fur
advances, and the facility with which snicks were taken in pawn
from him induced him to commit the offence.
Alderman Kitt reprobated the defence, and committed him for
trial on the three charges/or obtaining money mutter take pretences.
Sonrrinar Daticarr—One Jabs Breen was charged with hav-
ing ituien tout pieces of gingerbread, the same being of the aggregate
value of three halfpence.
John Brown, It appeared, *as caogbt in the commission of this
very " petty larceny ;" bet the owner of the gingerbread. eupp. ming
John Brown might have been instigated thereto by hunger, would
have let him go ; and he was about to du so, but perceiving John
Brown's pockets stick out very awkwardly, he had them searched.
and found therein a bottle of brandy and the better half of a quartets
Boat. " Why you unconscionable vagabond :"'said the owner of the
gingerbread to John Oruwn, " hew could you think of stealing
gingerbread, when you had all this bread and brandy in your pockets?'
To which John Brown replied—" Truly, I admit the bread and the
brandy ; but my stomach is weal, and I wanted a bit of soNseiliiag
delicate."
Now the gingerbread man, however he might feel Bettered by
the compliment thus paid to his gingerbread, had an notion of the
goodness of John Crown's plea ; and conceiving that John Brown's
honesty was more weak than his stomach, he gave Jobn Drown in
charge to the constable, who now brought him before tbe Magis-
trate. Before the Magistrate John Brown said nothing ; and the
Magistrate being of opinion that John Brown was more troubled
with the cacseihesfilchesidi than with dyspepsia, committed him fur
further examination, under an idea that be bad not come isinesdy
by the bread and the brandy, and that a more iawtui owner fat
those things :night be found in the meantime.

BOW—STREET•
Yesterday Miss Anna Maria Williams, a plump, dark, handsome-
faced, well-spoken young Cyprian, dressed in a coarse straw bonnet,
a superannuated blue shawl, and a bombasine gown that bad once
been new, was put into the dock on a charge of forcible abduction
arid robbery to the amount of two striding, and fourpcnce, from
the person of a light-brown-haired, blue-body-coated, young man,
of the name of John Dear, in a house in Southampton-courr, at
two o'clock yesterday morning, under the following extraordinary
circumstances— *
Mr. Dear said, that be was a resident of Ws!worth. This morn-
ing at two o'clock, be was making the best of his way to his place
of residence through the Strand, when, on arriving near South-
ampton-street, the fair prisoner took bold of his left arm, and at-
tempted to lute him to her dangerous haunts by bet honeyed elo-
quence. The complainant was Cyprian proof, and peremptorily
refused to accompany the damsel to her habitation. The prisoner
now altered her friendly tone, swore at bins like a trooper, and
seizing him by the collar, dragged him vi et &rods," into her
dark den, and closed the portal. The prisoner did not scream
murder either in the street or in the house. He was so muck
alarmed at his sudden and gallant capture, that he found himself
following the Lady, still against his will, up an obscure staircase
into a sitting room. There the prisoner forcibly put her hand into
the complainania right hand pocket, and took therefrom the sum
before stated. _ _

The Magistrate cautioned the prosecutor to be quite certain that
the pitsoner had forced hint to enter the house, in which be stated
that she afterwards robbed him, before he 11W4g• to a statement
that would deprive the in /WIWI' of her liberty.
The young man persisted in his previous assertions.
The young woman, iu her defence, said, that the complainant
had voluntarily accompanied her to her lodgings, and that he bad
laid the two shillings and fourpeoce, stated to have been forcibly
taken from his person' on a table in Ate room. The lady of the
home bad pocketed a shilling, and the prisoner took the remainder.
As fur my forcing him to go into the house, continued the prisoner,
who spoke with great correctness, animatsein, and volubility, the
complainant is not an infant dear. and it 'would be no easy task fur
a woman, hke myself, to take bins up in my anus and carry bins
to my lodgings in the manner be has stated.—The prisoner was re-
manded, for the production a the lady of the house.