Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-07-16

An EXECUTION IN FRASoE-The execution
of Very, aged 60, the murderer of the SER
vent girl Marguerite Lecointe, residing on the
Boulevard Beaumarchs, took place on the
18th inst. 1t may be remembered that this
man, a journeyman halter, when alone with
the young woman during the absence of her
master and mistress. Cut her throat in the
hope of finding large sum Of money in the
apartment. He took away some jewels, plate,
and silver coin, but missed so, 000f lying in
the drawer of a small table, which he omitted
to break open and search, as he did the other
pieces of furniture. On the trial, although
the circumstantial evidence against him was
unusually strong, he constantly denied his
guilt. On Friday morning, at O'Clock, when
two Of the turnkeys of the Prison Roquette
| entered his cell to inform him that his last
hour was come, he burst out into violent i'm
precautions against the injustice of men con-
demning an innocent man. He refused re-
| ligiOus consolation, and died impenitent. -
When he arrived at the foot of the scaffold he
paused an instant, and then assembled the steps
with firm tread. The moment he reached
the platform he cried out with loud voice
to the crowd, 81 die innocent; go and see the
piece called the Coarrier de LyonsW He then
gave himself into the hands of the execution
ers, and in an instant after had ceased to ex-
list. The Paris correspondent of the Star,
writing on the subject, ays:-"The execu-
tion of Very, the murderer, which took
place on Friday morning, is destined to cause
another pause in that terrific responsibility,
which the law-givers of every civilized coun-
try assume by a condemnation to the scaffold.
That the man deserved the worst fate few will
doubt He was william of the worst descrip-
tion-of the blacklist dye-murdering his
mistress for the sake Of lucre, and seeking to
throw the guilt upon an innocent comrade.-
But was he sure? Does not his whole life dis
close a secret melancholy, splenetic madness,
which the murdered woman herself had often
mentioned-to her friends as being likely, at
one time or another, to lead him either to
suicide or murder His brain was all on fire
with the study of romantic novels and dark
and bloody melodramas. The very night be-
fore the commission of the crime he had been
to see the Currier de Lyons; and so great was
the impression produced upon his disordered
brain that during the whole Of his trial for
this foul and unnatural murder, one fixed idea
of Lesurque and his unjust condemnation
seems to have been ever present to his mind.
At the moment Of the verdict he rises from the
dock and exclaims, ttirning to the audience.
"'The innocent is CONFERENCE.-The guilty is
let free. Go and see the Currier de Lyons
On the scaffold he raises his eyes to the fatal
hachile, anu ulters, Win ueep Sign, AN,
just like Lesurque-=I die innocent of this
crime And at the verv-- moment Of lying
down upon the baket, he exclaims with a
terrific shout, which echoed, over the heads
of the trembling crowd, '0nce more, am in
nocent go and see the Courier de Lyons
the case of Lesurque you will fnd'-and the
knife fell while yet the words were on his
lips. The circumstances has produced most
painful impression, and the multitude, which
during the whole time had behaved with the
greatest decorum, withdrew, fully persuaded
of the inutility of these frightful exhibitions
in preventing crime, and of their demoralizing
effect upon the younger portion of the popu-
lace there assembled"