Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-02-08
Genera, Nov. 4.
HoRRID MURDER,

HoRRID MURDER.
A double assassination. the details of which
seems 10 furnish the counterpart to that OF
the unfortunate Fuaides, was committed on
the first instant in the suburbs of this city,
on the person of NJ Corboz and his servant.
These TWO victims were found horribly mu
tilaled in the house which they occupied at
Plain Palais. 1t would appear hat long
and hard struggle had preceded the perpe-
tration OF the crime but the murderers have
not left behind them the least trace that can
lead 10 discovery, Ithappened. however,
that the same night the mu' der was COM
mitted, two young men, who were return
ing from shooting. alarmed man who was
carrying a porter's hod, and as be saw them
he threw the contents into a ditch. little
farther of they met a0othel man similarly
burthened. On the following day they learn
ed that FIVE men had crossed the lake, car
rying with them quantity OF effects, and
leaving behind a trunk at public house.
The police Immediately searched the ditch
and found several things belonging to Mr..
Corboz. and among them some bloody Ii
men. The trunk also was filled with things
alter the murder.
Some days afterwards, a well dressed
man, who was travelling with dealer in
wine, ordered the coachmaE who drove
them TO call for the trunk at the house it had
been left The wine merchant, who had
previously noticed that the hands and face
OF the prisoner were much scratched, now
suspected him Of being one OF the murderers,
and had him arrested. This was not done
without great difficulty. The assassin, who
is named Machon, is a powerful man, and
i, /" as no; until after long personal conflict
between him and French gendarme that he
was secured and lodged in prison at Gex.
Since that time, MADAM B. who belongs TO
family of rank in the neighbCrhood, has
been arrested as an accomplice, and she has
promised to reveal every thing, upon con-
dition of her life being spared A professor
of Italian, who is also suspected, has fled.
Six men and two women, besides Machon
and Madame B. have been arrested. Ma
chon is The captain OF banditti called "the
Black Band" The gendarme who secured
him was carried In triumph upon the shout
ders OF the Populace 20 the townhall at Ge-
neva, where he was publicly thanked by the
magistrate, and rewarded with 50 Napole-
ons (l4l lbs ADJ
Noe. 7.-Our police, and that OF the con-.
tiguous districts of France, Savoy, and OF the
Pays de Vaud, are concerning means for the
recovery OF the perpetrators OF the MUIR
der committed on The Is, instant in the en-.
yirons of this town, and also Of band OF
robbers who have been committing depre-
dations on our territory for several months.
The French geDlsrmerie of Gex have ar
re sted an individual under strong suspicious
of guilt, and other arrests induce belief
that they are on the right track. The Sar-
dinisu authorities have adopted active mea-
sures TO prevent any suspicious character
taking refuge in Savoy. Another band of
warrants aud Ieserters, partly from Milan
and partly from Genoa, baSe collected IN
tho west of Switzerland ,swhence they make
predatory incursions into the departments oil
Ain snd Of Jurs,