The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-29

A recent murder in Paris bears strik-
| ing similarity, in some points, to the
famous Smith Bennett murder case tried
in this city some years ago. One Brageul,
a servant, was put on trial for the murder
| of small farmer named Beaudoin, living
at Saint-Symphorien Nine. Beaudoin was
also tried as an accomplish. Beaudoin was
sound asleep beside his wife one night
! when Brageul burst into the bedroom,
armed with carbine, and shot him. The
murderer did not deny the murder, but
accused the widow, his paramour, of hav-
| ing instigated the crime by promising to
marry him if he would kill her husband.
| On being questioned, the widow made the
astounding assertion that the report of the
firearm had not awakened her, and that
she was disturbed by the smell of her hus-
bands burning nightcap and the blood
trickling from his body. To test the truth
of her statement, the Judge had recourse
to the favorite French system of recon
shutting the crime" The bed on which
Beaudoin died was brought into the court,
and Mime. Beaudoin got into the blood
stained sheets. Brageul took the gun and
rested il on the woman's knees as in the
act of firing. Finally the widow was
acquitted and Brageul was sentenced to
hard labor for life. The narrative shows
some points of striking dissimilarity, too.
Neither Mrs. Smith nor Bennett would
admit the guilt of the other. They stood
together nobly, to survive or perish
together. and both were acquitted.
The Evening Journals dislikes take
counsel of its fears. The proposition of
the World to run daily New Jersey
edition in this city threatened the less of
| the Journals circulation, and it has been
SO bitter upon the World since that, while
| before it started its local edition the Jour
nal copied column after column of editorial
| from its columns, it has since referred to it
only as Sensational New York news
paper" The Journal certainly can't be
afraid that the appearance of the name Of
the World in its columns will advertise
our New York contemporary. The Worlds
enterprise has given it daily circulation
right here in Hudson County compared
with which the Journals is mere baga-
| telle. 1t shows the same little envy in its
references to the SUNDAY TATTLER. 1t
never mentions this paper save in some
nameless, indefinite fashion. This is
| because it knows that the TATTLER is
coming to be recognized as the local paper
of the town; and because it fears that the
TATrLER may eventually enter the field
of daily journalism, and knock the Journal
endwise.
Ex- Mayor Frank Mills, of Trenton, has
retired this time permanently from active
| Journalism. He had retired half dozen
times before; but he was, even in his old
age, of so active a temperament that
nothing but death could permanently
retire him. His familiar face, that has
adorned over forty sessions of the Legisla-
ture, will be missed. When he first ven-
tured to report Legislative proceedings
for the newspapers that particular branch
of journalistic enterprise was new; and
the legislators of those days would permit
him to publish only the copy that the
| Speaker of the House had revised. Times
have changed since then. The eternal
laws of progress have brought about
transformations that put the newspapers
way beyond the control of legislatures, or
| States or nations even.
The sacrifice OF four lives in the fallen
buildings on Morris street last Wednesday
win probably lead to healthy action all
around. The city authorities will prob
ably find authority, themselves, to pull
down the host of equally perilous bar
racks with which the city is dotted, and
not leave it to the within of owners who
have selfish interest in saving them from
demolition. If they can't find the author
ity for IT, they can get it without any
trouble from the Legislature. Meanwhile
it does not become them to be inactive.
If they haven't the right to destroy build
ings that imperil life, let them assume it.
The risk is SO small as to be not worth
talking about. Any jury in the County
would protect them even if they did
stretch their prerogative little beyond its
a. h.zsI5 d1xr,
every one of themi -
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The Paterson Guardian says, well, that,
as William Walter Phelps sits on his
barrel and Eliminates upon the glitterlng
temptation held out to him by Sewell,
Hobart and Co., the melancholy political
shades of John l. Blair, Cornelius Walsh,
George A. Halsey and Frederick A. Potts
fit beckoningly by. Misery loves com
pany. Then it consolingly remarks,
apropos of the possible nomination of
Gen. g. Burd Grubb, in the event of Mr..
Phelps declining, that there never was
time when tramp, political or otherwise,
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