The evening times., 1895-08-13
The CRIME OF 4, MARQUIS
An Unusual Sensation in the Old
French Town Of Bourge.
After Protracted imprisonment Mar
quis de Nayve Is Held for Trial for
the Murder of His wife's Son.

Bourges, France, Aug. l3.-The indict-
de Nayve for trial at the Cher assizes on
the charge Of numbering the 1Ilegitimate
son OF his wife. The case 10 a sensational
one.
The Marquis de Nayve has been nihprisoned
since the middle of July 1894, awaiting
trial for the murder CT son his wife
had before her marriage. His arrest at the
railway station at Guetin as he was re-
turning from trip through Switzerland
to his chateau at PTesles, in the commune
OF Cuffy on the banks of the Loirc, caused
a tremendous sen satiOn throughout the dis
trict.
The marquis was one Of the leading perso-
nalities In the department, land was reputed
to be a man OF great benevolence although
1t was known that in his younger days lie
had sown more than O fair share Of wild
oats and dissipated large patriniony be-
fore marrying the rich heiress, whos Sc lille
climate child he is charged with having
murdered. He was burn at Greaobie in
1S49 and i NO W therefore in his 46th year
Although at the time Of his arrest 1t was
not known exactly on what grounds the
gendarmes laid hands on him at Guetin, IN
der warrant from the judicial authorities
at st. Amand, the socialist faction created
q hostile manifestation against the pris-
oner as he was marched on foot to La
Gucrche, whence q SPECIAL train took him
to st. Amand, where ne was iIcarcerated
Immediately.
Very soon IL became known that the
marquis was accused Of having thrown bis
wifes son into the bay OF Naples from the
cliffs along the Sorrento road, after having
stunned him with heavy instrument. 1t
was also said that the youth had been
stabbed before being thrown from the cliffs
into the bay but this version was afterward
denied. H~u ~
1t transpired later that the denunciation
which caused the marquis arrest emanated
from his own wife friends of the marquis
added that tae'boy Mad nuo beeu murdered,
but was of a dependent nature and had
committed suicide by jumping from cliff
during the tour through Italy, on which
the marquis had taken him in the hope
of dispelling his gloomipess- The marquis
partisans further stated. that his wife had
concocted the murder storysin order to rid
herself OF the marquis sai 1hat the might
marry priest who had lived with. the
Nayves' ever since their marriage ard aad
been the boys tutor. II not bis father.
The fact that Nine De Nayve about this
time introduced suit for divorce against
the prisoner lent some culor TO this theory,
and in the absence of anything but hear
say evidence and Mme. De Nayve's de-
it was thought, at one time
that the prosecution wonld be abandoned.
The procuror general at Bpurges, NJ. Bour-
geois, was removed to Doual at this
period of the case, and it was rumored that
his displacement was due to his Unwill-
ingness to shelve the case.
Some weeks later, though the marquis
was still under arrest, and 1t was an
nounced that NJ. Albert Danet, of Paris,
was retained as his counsel, and that
the trial would take place in January,
1895. Commissions tn examine witnesses
had meantime been collecting evidence in
Italy, ut Paris, Orleans, Havre, and in
the department OF the Cher.
Voluminous, however, as this evidence
was, 1t all proved to be cireumstantial
and indecisive, and before the January /!
sessions opened the authorities decided I
10 postpone the trial till April in order
to collect further evidence. When the
lssizes commenced at Bourges ON April |
20 1t was found that the De Nayve case |
was not on the cause list, and the matter |
was postponed until to-day.