Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-09-20
ALL FOR LOVE.

Paris, June 25.-The following horri-
BILE crime, the effect of disappointed
love and jealousy, has just bean com.
mitted in the neighbourbood OF Toulon.
A young man named Augustus Toulou-
san, residing at Soliles Poat, in the ar
reimbursement Of Toulon, had for a long
time back carried on an Illicit intercourse
with a girl named Adelaide s., to whom
it is SAID he bad made a promise Of mar
rage. His family, however, who were
averSe to his union with Adelaide s
had induced him to propose for another
girl in the ELECTROMAGNETIC cir
cumstances coming to the ears Of his
mistress she wished to be assured Of the
truth of il from his W lips, and on the
l2th ofthis month she sent a person to
him, TO request that he would call upon
her at eight on that evening. At the
our appointed she was at toe window,
and on seeing her love approach, she
ran down to the door. Toulousan, hou-
yer, instead of coming to her, stopped
at the door of a neighboring house, and
sat down near a young girl, the friend
and confdant Of the young woman to
whom be was going to be married.
lie affected 20 enter INTO a very ANNA
ted conversation with her, and seemed
to delight ia exciting the Jealousy of bis
mistress, who with fixed eyes and bag
gard air stood looking at him during
the two bours he remained thus tor
menting her. At ten o'clock he retur-
ned home. without having once ap
preached or addressed a word to his
mist Toulousan fastened the door
If his house, but in the wall close by
"a an aperture, sufficient to admit
a moderate sized person, which vas clio.
sed only by a large store on the out
side. 1t is supposed that about eleven
adelaide :. repaired to his house, arm
ed with a razor, removed the stone that
closed the aperture in the wall, ascend
ed to his room and cut his throat, In
her fight down stairs, after the horrid
act, she dropped the razor and one Of
Der shoes and let herself out by the front
door Of the house, which vas secured
only by a wooden bar.
The unfortunate Toulousan started
from his sleep aud made to the window,
to call for succour His stihed and mar
t|icuiate criesfesembled The holdings Of q
wi!d beast, at least such was the des-
cription of them given by the neigh
bours, Finding it would appear that he
could not produce an artlculate sound
to call his father, whose room was on
the opposite side of a little yard, he
threw his woollen night-cap at his faith
er's window, but this not awakening
him, he descended the staircase. hold.
ing his throat with both his hands.-In
this way he ven through the stable,
and through a yard to another part Of
the premises, where his brother and his
wife slept, the blood flowing abundant
ly from his wound, and tracing his
progress the whole way His lamenta.
Bile cries, or rather frightful howlings,
awoke his brother and wife, but they
thinkingi it to be some wild beast, bar
r~icadoed, instead of opening their door,
and began to cry for succoui themselves.
T~oulousan continued for some time
knocking at the door, and uttering in
.articulate sounds that served only to
.teuify still more his brother and sister
in law.-He at length descended the
staircase that led from their room, but
his hands no longer sufficient to stop the
blood that rushed from the wound in his
throathe staggered and fell upon the
last step OF the staircase. At this mo-
ment his father and two of the neigh
bors who bad been awaked by the
knocking and cries, came up TO where
he lay, as he was breathing his last
and when lights were brought, all that
remained to the unfortunate father was
the Duihlated dead body of bis son., in
a state Of perfect nudity, and surround
ed with blood!-The father dropped
senseless on the body.
At ten o'clock In the morning, the
proper authorities we're informed of the
circumstances. Adelaide 5. was ares
ted. There was found in her room a
handkerchief stained with blood, with
which she is supposed to have envelop.
ed part of the razor while committing
the crime, and a steckiug, the vamp Of
which was covered with mud. The
shoe found on the staircase, near lou
lousan's room fitted exactly one Of her
feet Brought into the room, where the
body OF her lover was exposed, she ap
'peared to he Welding TO a fit of hvster.