New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24

-. missed or been stopped. Ahoeie'
swohd misn attracted my attention. but sne' 'oo'
girl, scriewn'' lady directly before me mex,
wss out Oh NY measured my distance caicuia'eo
fe snder n' my muscles for the blow, wneh
my AIM osu ,oxopener was watching me pre-
saw ths' ,s.n,se nv nails with the point oil my
,ss and smiled at the man, VINE" o"o b. ,o.
In funny speech II ne n"d any '1' 49,, .,.;r.
n'De "A his guard. for he shortly went "o"u ''
mi." IA struck the hdy in the lett oo''u anu
:, the wound, folded my arms 70 sho" 'i'''
..derea and thus, rendered my "fros'
Ia b, the lady had expired immedmtey' VIII
VIZ ....n, word or groan, Joord ssn "'h
os' ~','. .,.uuohed without suffering; did not
G". % ;raict pain regret my Vlc'l'l ou' ner
ee'. .,as necessary 20 insure my Repentance
desh We ,nes.ss introduced the first day declared
- -.,re belief in Jobard'0 sanity and denied having
We" ,oeed anything in his conduct suggestive Of any
..,r,s dcraneement whatever.
=. ,eeord day, deposition from the Mayor OF
,...errc was read declaring that nearly all OF Jo-
emily had, at various times, been more or less
IL dersnged Thus, Jean Jooard, his great
ss.,he, starved himself to death Pierre Jobard,
g. uncle, said nothing for many years but these
~. "Good God. am lostl' Marie Jobard, his
- uss formerly subject to fits Of ravng madness,
- IL NOW married and cured; Charles GousseroO,
a, cou,in. is confirmed hypochondridc Francois
r,rier his cousin. was seized with raying madness at
49, Of % but which has not since returned Claude
60 hs cousin is stark staring mailman Francois
0e, was maniac at the age Of 20; Christine Jooard
b an IDIOT &C ..-
letter written by Jobsrd to his parents 'oon after
Il, IL Ia
.rs statement to the examining judge he often al
ldes 10 the life he led before his crime IN terms Oh
,yong 6iaust and continues throughout to speak Oh he
murder Of Madame Ricard as Indispensable to his re-
pen.ncc and salvation. The only defense made by NJ
pube,t who had voluntarily undertaken the cause o.
Tho noner was Lis evident nonsnny. He belonged to
I, huiy afflicted generation after senerlon win mad
nes, folly or idocy II crime conntted WITHOUT
oye without object or ~ DR. Gcnsoul expresses IT. III
,;eQ If I'm object that nnsdnan alone could pursue.
An scouiita could in way endenger society," since 50
reclle,s a mailman would not be permitted to go at
,srcc rut Ia execute a man vino had certainly acted
from some unnatural uipulse whether the obhIuty re-
suited from abuse OF his powers, or was inherited
from manacal ancestry, was neither just nor decent
nor good example TO set The jury, after receiving
their charge retired, and in less than ten minutes
brought in a verdict Of guilty OF murder, with alevi-
ng circumstances. The Court after few moments'
deberation condemned the prisoner to hard work at
tho buks for life When wrote 10 you of this shocking
crime lest summer, expressed the hope that for this
once if never again. the guilotne would be cheated Of
n, victim man who seeks death at the hands of the
,.,y and sheds innocent blood that by man may his
lod be hod can hardly expect his judges to sratiy
him with the very penalty he SO perseveringly, so I'M
crupuousy sought 1t very evident that the jury did
NJ. believe in Jobards arrangement; the extenuanns
;n,apces were introduced into the verdict express
~ 10 avert the mder penalty, death, and intict upon
him punishment more worthy his atrocous iniquties,
rnyer;nr unfrctded life The verdict will be rcmenl
,ered ss long as the trial ITSELF as just and righteous
retrbaton for crime unprecedented III Ju'iciai an
malls. IT, D.