Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1852-10-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

KINGDOM.—The project of erecting Algeria into a viceroyalty is more than ever talked off and is, it seems one of those on which the President is particularly tenacious. Prince Lucien Murat is again spoken a as the future viceroy. THE Successios.—There have been sundry contradictory rumours afloat of late with respect to the chances of the ex-King Jerome to be included in the ituperial succession, but there is reason to believe that Louis Napoleon's wish and intention are to make that branch of his family the first princes of the blood. MURDER WILL Our."—A retired jeweller, of the name of Van der Kreutz, but called Lacroix, aged 78, lived about fourteen years ago at No. 5, Rue tie .Malte. Although very rich, he carefully shunned all association with respectable people, and was accustomed to dine almost daily with his houskeeper, a woman named Madeline, in the low public houses and restaurants of the barriers. After dinner he used to sit drinking arid talking all the evening with persons he met, though they were for the most part professional thieves and liberated enivicts. Strange to say, too, he always wore ostensibly several valuable rings, chains, pins, and other articles of jewell,ry. On Sunday, 12th of August, 1838, he dined as usual at a restaurant at La Courtille with his servant, and they returned home together late at night. The next morning they did not appear; and the apartment Ironing been entered, they were both found lying with their throats cut ill the dining-room. By their side were two shoemaker's knives, with which it was evident they had been murdered. The police and the magistrates made extraordinary exertions to discover the murderer, but without success. Some time after a man named Barenne, living at 27, Rue de la Verrerie, was found lying in his aparttnent with his throat cut, and near him wars shoemaker's knife. Circumstances caused it to be supposed that this crime had been committed by the person who had murdered the old jeweller and his seriant ; and there was reason to believe that this person was a woman who lived with a liberated convict named Auguste. To capture this woman was, however, an impossibility, notwithstanding all the activity and ingenuity of the police. Neither could any clue be obtained to the articles stolen. These articles consisted of a valuable gold watch and chain, and of a ring which the old nian always wore. It appears that the murderer had not taken the trouble to look after tither booty, as a quantity of plate and a considerable sum of money in an upper room *ere left untouched. The police from time to time arrested different persons on suspicion ; but they all had to be released from want of proof. At length the pursuit of them was given up, and the affair was almost forgotten. A few days ago one of the commissaries of police of Paris was called in to record the death of an Italian woman, who bad killed herself by means of the fumes of charcoal. Ott a table by her bedside was a letter addressed by her to the examining magistrates. In that letter she said, that being about to appear before God. and being tormented by remorse, she deemed it her duty to make known that the murderers of old an der Kreutz and his servant were four men, with one of whom she had lived. She gave the names and addresses of these men. At first it was thought that the letter might simply be an act of vengeance, but some inquiries having been made, it was deenied neces3ary to arrest the men indicated, and on Thursday they were all taken.—Galigvan'.