New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-02
useu CRIME IN ENGLAND.

The records of crime are occasionally lighted
up by ease Of such rea elegance that the divine
fines, Of sin on earth becomes at once strikingly
evident and the heart is made glndsoHe by the
thought that the supply q frightiul examples is
not wholly exhausted by the spread Of ciyiliza-
ton. Such crime n thai Of the bsuker Mr@s,
in Paris, and the Baron dc Nidi ia London,
which is at once admitted 1to the conversation of
the best society, seems to be- ii Il Is not
different thing from the vHigsr and revolving
article that appears in police columns, aud whose
horrid head i, raised in the foul places Of cities
only to be struck down by a ,irtuous public al
large.
The clubs and the drawing rooms Of London,
NOW Glive with "the season, are much occupied
with the case Of de vidl The Baron OF this
name-a Frenchman with an English wife--tried
TO murder his son on the 2cth OF June. Father
and sou were men of more OF less mark and
more or less fortune; the former mad forced
position in aristocratic circles, and was largely
esteemed as a bore; the latter was young and
amiable graduate OF Cambridge The Baron was
an honorary member OF several Of the Clubs, and
be seems to have been accepted US one OF the
skirrnishers AT least, Of the grad army OF
Fashion in the city. On the date mentioned,
he proposed to ride with young DE Vidil to pay
respects TO the Dcc D'Aumale and the members
Of the ex-royal family at Caremout. After chat
ting an hour with the Due DOrleaps the cques-
trims cantefed OF in the direction OF Orleans
House, the Baron leading the WY through lanes
and by.paths, and they arrived at last nc a very
secluded spot shut in by high wall on one side
and thick end tall hedge on the other. Here
father struck sou a violent blow with loaded
riding-whip and laid open his forehead, but
neither this attack nor the two severe at
tscks with which il waa followed up uu-
seated the Young man. The eye If a iaborer
working near ~ saw this. Stunned, aod
with blood flowing from his wounds, Alfred set
spurs to his horse The Baron pGrsued him at
full speed. In this unnatural chase the sou
found that his father war rapidly gaining upon
hun, and, as a last chance, be threw himself
from ihe saddle and ran, crying Tor help, to d
part OF men a. work. Following him up closely,
the Baron informed the country people that Al
fred bad been throws from his horse. Medical
assistance having been called TO the tavern where
the sufferer was taken, the Baron expressed
desire to be again alone with bis son, bot the
young man resisted this plan with such singular
yehenence that II failed. For tweRty.iour hours
de yidil lowered about his sons bedside, still
intent ON murder, but the medical attendant was
equally vgilant, and at the end Of that time Al
| fred was able TO leave the negbborhood Of so
/ much danger, ard take shelter at an ancle's
house. Here be told bis tale, and warrants were
soon out for the arrest Of the Baron. He left
for Paris was arrested there by an English po-
lice agent, and finally, after some difficulties Of
international law, brought up in Bow street.
Strange to say the son refused give any ev.
dence against his father, and at first was or
dered to seven days imprisonment for his obsti-
macy, but afterward handed over to.hs friends
under whose influence, pending the next trial,
our latest dates leave MIN.
OF course the first ground of defense Of this extra
| ordinary and inbuman crime will be monomania,
the scapsgoat for most illustrous crimes Of recent
date. But there are facts which viii probably dis.