New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-13
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IA young lady of twenty-five, Miss Sylyie Vidal,
the honor of whose birthplace NAV be claimed by
the department Of the Iozone, has just given to
the tribunal of correctional olice of Paris the OPP
portpnity Of forming an opinion upon a very.
clever and artistic plan of obtaining money. Miss
Vidal iii the month of August last, lodged at the
hotel OF III. BogIrg in the Ruedeg vt. German, and
happened. from some cause or other, TO be a little
Id arTear with her rent. On the 9Th of that month
d Bourg had to congratulate himself upon the
termination of his anxety in regard to it, for on
that day he received aletter signed Gasirnir Rou-
yfere The letter informed Ne Bourg that NJ. Leo
peld who was the lover of Miss Vidal, had died
of his woundsa st GlerInont. He had, However,
provided for the dear child. His relatives, who
had mOHrned at the foot Of his death bed, had
fully approved of the legacy lie had made to the
lovely and atsectienate girl of 30 d00, which had
heenpaid into The hands0f notary on her ac-
count The writer Was too gFisyea to announce
the newssto SylVie, hat he begged III. B0urg to do
40 gradually, At the same time he told that gen
tlenan he should come to Paris il few days, pay
The rent which was owing by SylYie, and, at the
same time, according TO Leopodis dying request,
bring q silk gown and d shawl to Madam Bourg.
This afIeetionata excited Monsieur Bourg very
mach, and had the very same effaotupon his wife
to the passage aboutthe silk gown and shawl she
Hhed cascades Of tears.
When ". B0urg announced the sad news of her
lovers death TO the innocent girl she was over
whemed and thunderstruek at hTst, but collecting
herself, she said if she had money she would not
wait for Gassmir's 4 arrival, but she would so her
shawl for sG Bourg s dear wife, Nj. Bonrg i'm
Haediately cut short the difficulty, and not only
lent EYlVie & l900f. bank note, but insisted upon
her making temporary use Of gold watch and
chain iii order that she might look srespectablei Y
"a few days after Sylyie's departure, it came to
the knowledge Of III. Beurg that her supposed
lover, Leopold, was in perfecthealths and thatth
letter from Clermont was imagined and written
By Sylvie herself. This fact was admitted to the
president of the court by that young lady, who
said that she should not have written it If NJ
Bourg had not bothered her for the money due
10 him. and she was compelled to getcash some
how. She however, could not think of returning
him more than 509f. for she had laid out 600f for
various articles on his account, including lz0f.
for handsome new wooden leg M Bourg has
but ena legl and the rest Of the silk gown and
shnwl for his WIFE and her journey to Glermont to
see her dead lover. Miss sylVie was sentenced to
imprisonment for Is months and a fine of sol.
d cruel murder was committed on the 18th OF
August last. The victim was widow woman
named Pontas, who Kept cabaret at st. Pierre
Irlises Jean Louis Daval has been tried for the
murder before the Court of Assize for La Manche,
held DIT Constance. The facts established by the
evidence were that the scn OF the deceased re-
tlrned home that nigh between 40 and II O'Clock,
and on attempting to open his mothers room,
found an obstruction. Hes however, pushed the
door open and found that obstacle was his
mothers dead body. The head and neck were
covered with wounds, which appeared to have
been inflicted with heavy nailed shoes. Suspi-
eipn Immediately fell upon the prisoner and on
EA1eS DelftHs sliu
herad 10 them Some footInarks in the garden
aIao exactly correaponded with the prisoners
ahoea. Some money was found ia his possession
4 which he had no doubt, taken from the apart,
Il 34nent, aait was proved that he had none the day
before. The jury found him guilty, bat, strange
to say with !" extenuating circumstances,' SO he
escapes capital punishment, and was sentenced
X 10 hard labor for life. There was nothing in the
eYidanee, except proof, that this was murder
committed with excessive cruel lty. The reporter
remarks that the prisoner looked like wild
beast taken In a trap
The French police are in pursuit Of clever
swindler who has contrived to make a good deal
Of money. He began by starting two literary
journals, La FouIe and the Journal des Arts. Sub.
Hcriptious came in WELL but the subscribers re-
ceiVed their Journals for very short time only.
that he could obtain situations of Ill kinds, and
could even obtain employment in high quarters Of
the State. He has obtained for oiice fees and
subscriptions about so 000f. The director has de.
parted from Paris withoutleaying his address. BE
viii probably soon be at the prison.
The Coar Impafiate Of Paris has given deei-
Nion important to the commercial world, to the
eject that se merchant is not liable to arrest foT
salary due 10 his clerk. M. johnson, merchants
clerk, obtained two judgments against bis EN-,
xioyer, M. Girard with power of arrest and for
the naginent of 2400f. personally, as the manager
of the commercial company, GiTard and company.
The decision was on the ground that If johnson
had been the clerk he had no peeunary interest
IN the house of his master. qhatit was only debt
for salary, and not commercial debtentailng I'M
pFiHoHment
The Imperial court Of Paris has rejected the ap'
peal of the managera and printers Of the Conr-
TieF Franeais against the sentence of an inferior
noaTf III fourteen modths' Imprisonment and a
ane 81 500f for the insertion Of an article zeal