Weekly News. — 1891-10-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRAGEDIES IN FRANCE.  A telegram from Paris reports that on Thursday morning some workmen perceived a man apparently asleep in a quarry near Auteuil. On attempting to awaken him they discovered that he had a deep wound in the breast. The body was conveyed to the hospital. In the deceased's pocket was found a card, giving his name, and shewing him to be aged 50. Upon investigation traces of blood were found about 100 yards from the quarry, and following these up the detectives came to the garden of a gentleman named Chevalier. On being interrogated on the subject he professed entire ignorance of the matter. A search of the house, however, led to the discovery of a sword-cane and dagger both stained with blood. "With these weapons before you," asked the commissary, "do you still deny all knowledge of the affair?" "Certainly," was the reply. "Very well; but I must arrest you," said the Commissary. It is supposed that the man had entered M. Chevalier's gar2en with the object of stealing apples, and that the proprietor struck him without intending to take his life. Ile, however, refuses to answer any questions, and still professes entire ignorance of the author of the crime.  Notwithstanding the most careful search Surgeon Major Breton, the murderer of the Courbevoie dentist Genisset, has not yet been found. A number of police have been told off for the special duty of capturing the murderer, some being posted round the house and others at the railway stations from which, as is thought likely, he may try to leave the city. The wife of the victim is to be prosecuted as an accomplice, as it has been proved by some neighbours who were witnesses of the tragedy that she stood watching on the opposite side of the road, and that they afterwards ded together.  The Assize Court of the Indre et Loire has condemned a man named Londais to death for a double murder. He had killed two old persons named Dethonnias, aged respectively 73 and 71 years, who lived in Taxuigny. The aged couple were brutally murdered, the woman's head being cut off, and much of the property in the house stolen. After a long search the assassin, who is a young man, was arrested in Paris. He was then in possession of 4,000 fr. which he said he had stolen in 1881 from an egg merchant. This statement, however, was proved to be false, and finally Londais confessed to the crime.  Counsel : "Miss, what is your age i' witness: "I am past 20." Counsel: "You must be more explicit.', Witness: "Well, I am between 20 and 30." Counsel: "No more trilling. State your exact age." Witness: "I'll be 30 the day after to-morrow."  _ One of the guests at the wedding tendered his congratulations and said he supposed this match, like all others, had been made in Heaven. " Why—er— Minnie and I first took to liking each other," said the embarraased young bridegroom. "at a dance." The Fresiaent of the Italian Society ot Crimean Veterans at Turin has directed a circular ti the syndics of Italian towns announcing for this autumn the inauguration of a monument commemorative of the expedition to the Crimea. At the same time will be celebrated the 39th anniversary of the battle of Cernaia, and a provision will be made for the veterans of that expedition.  The Liverpool stipendiary magistrate on Saturday tniposed a fine of RIO on John Pepperill, master of the barque Adelaide Mary, for attempting to bribe & Customs otlic:.r. The officer, when searching the vessel, found two boxes of cigars secreted in a locker, and when the defendant's attention was drawn to them he oFfered the Customs officer 2s. to say nothing about th- matter. A shoeblack, who has just died at Brixton, has left a sum of £7OO. Ile was an old and miserable. looking man, and had a "perch" outside Brixton Station, and was always supposed to be in almost the last stage of destitution. When not engaged polishing boots he generally passed his time in collecting refuse for food and fuel outside shops in the neighbourhood. It is said he leaves only one relative. who is at present iu a worklumse  LORD SHEFFIELD 8 CRICKET TEA% Lord Sheffield's English cricket team for A Lade letCLiverpool-atreet Station by special train on day morning, on their way to join the P. sad Company's steamer Arcadia, on which they , make their outward voyage. Those who lett w Messrs. Stoddart, Phillipson, M'Gregor, Wei Shaw, Briggs, Abel, G. Bean, Lohmann, M. Sharp, Attewell, and Peel. A large number of known cricketers assembled on the platform, many of these travelled to the docks to take farewell.  AN