New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-14
HORRIBLE MURDER.
PARTICULARS INVOLVED IN NY>TEgy.

Fr'H The Ch-o,icls nc' @ lsJs.
Last nient about clock. French woman named
NlctOlre RDtoDd, ves found murle..d in b.i ~ her
house. on the cast eide of Waahn ION place. two doors
from Jackson street. The psrtic die.s o. the case 50
lar as we clI learn, are follows: This wouI.r has
been living for come time with a Fnenchn II nanci
Louis MaLet. who. about eight DAYS ago. received
cut in the eye AM went cut - Restaurant a, The La
coon, called " la Pe..te Nin,enue," to say Until he
got well !. seems that he was eshamed 70 be seen In
town III the condition he was TO- Nict,fe 10 tie
daily habit OF going 10 the lagoon - visit NJ ile;.
She generally wtnt out 10 the moriirg. 10 = agon
driven by Aueus,e Attier o. the attaches OF the
Rec aoraD took breakfast OF dejeHpeT, AMI r-lucuel
home in The vance about th5 mid lie OF the
day.
On Tuesday moTr ing Augusta drove iI;o town about
O'Clock anc took her on, 10 the Lagoon, whore she
breakasted and returned TO her house In Washington
place Of ltl o'clock She was accompanied IN by
LAME and AUguste stayod IN town With tho wagon
until evening when going back 10 the Lagoon, abou.
, clock T. n he called in Victories h, u-e and saw
her FOR moment. She was then alone. In was the
last line Auguste Mallet or LAME saw her alive.
Later in tie evening a man named Eugene Laquos,
wlo ISes with biz woman next dor 10 Nct,He, heard
a nan in her VIctoire's) house making certain Or
raDgeu cnts with Der. II is enough 20 say that he
stay 10 the same house with her during the night lie
Laguois beard them in ersntion aerward, and q
ten ninufcs 10 O'Clock Nicoire asked in broken En-
elish: " WI a. IL your Countrywide you belong to
The man replied, am Yankee AferS Irt Vic
toirc heard by LaquOis 10 eroan three times, "a
though suffering severe pain.
We will now state how the murder va found out.
Nctoire promised MaIet Tuesday hat yesterday
lWedn, sday) morning she wouli again 90 1t la the
Lagoon 10 visit him. Yesterday II 1rnng Aug iste Al
titlier ioo tue city " h the wagon, and Maliet
told him TO call and see how /" the Old woman was.
He iAuglstei accordingly called a. the bolse aal
found tie door locked After traLstcng bis business
in the city he returned 10 the Lagoon and informed
Maet of the fact. lie Malletl then sa'ided horse
end came in himself This was about ,. O'Clock las.
evening lie called at Laquos's housc--neNt door t,
N.tOirt and was there Informed that she Nictore
had not been up during the day, aud that sac ~a'
pr. badly sick she had been heard TO eroln du1g
tie pight Maet then went 10 the front dor of VIC
torres house and found it locked. lie then went to
the back door and found thst locked also; he broke
in through the back wiDdos. The bed, which was IN
the back rumplcd, but he could not see \c-
toire. JIe went into the front room bat no one Was
there lie returned to the bed and putting his hand
npon It, felt the body Of the woman, which had been
caroidy covered Up. IL az once gave the alarm, and
tie house soon full Of people.
There had evidently bee1 desperate struSg'e, FOR
The prints Ct fingers visible ON the wJnans throat
and face. and also upon her breast. The supp,sid N
from his is that she was first n,thercd; aud tins sup
position is Strengthened by the ,ston in which the
pillow found: il Was lying bcs 'e her, Is though
Lad fallen over from her face. There was also an
ircised would upon the abdomen, which appears a.
though il was made with setto two-elgel dirk.
There were marks on the sheet where the mud, rer
had taken water and tried TO wash out In. blood; bat
tbe had blod afresh, ADD, when found, Il stains Of
blood were distinctly visible The body "as taken to
the Corones office, and the house taken ot
by the police After careful search OF the premises,
and also outside, under the house, &C. 10 weapon of
any kind could be found.
We had omitted to state that on Tuesday night La
quois heard her cry three t,O.6 quite distinctly, Non
Dieui Mon DER ; Non Dtea - He, however,
supposed she was sick. Victore vas one of the wit
restes against Chieto the Italian, in the celebrated
NitIiol case some tine ago.
Mallet was feartully detected; he went to the Station
House and seemed ~ suffer dreadiully.
Tie is without doubt; one of the most horrible muir
ders ever p.rpe1ated IN tbs community: No pains
will he sparci bring 'he perpe'Eator to Justice Al
though no umediae clue 10 the murderer has been
discovered tie Chief o. Police, james McElroy, Ia,
taken active measures to iii cover him The probaOl-
iy is that he will eventually be taken.
Malltt discharged from the S:atIoniolse ao,ui
9 O'Clock last night. -
Several ply sicians and surgeons examined tnc body
during the evening, aud the general opleicn appeared
TO lie that TIE wound had been inflicted with a dirk
knife sharp on both sides.
An examination will be Leh by the Coroner this
morning
Capt Lees aud Officers M kenzie, Fnerty ald
Salisbury busy engaged IN searching for The muir
derer. -.
All O'Clock this morning Capt. Lees aud On ;er
Salisbury arc.ted two suspicion OF beng con-
cerned III the murder. One OF them. a ffenchmal
was dres .ed entirely in clothes. They we're placed
Ia close confinement in the Station House.