Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-04-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TERRIBLE AFFRAY WITH A MADMAN. A terrible drama has just been enacted at 41, Rue de St. Petersbourg, Paris. A few days ago Jean Sanzede, a coachman, in the employ of M. and Madame Poitevin, inhabiting the first floor apartment, had a sunstroke resulting from washing the carriage bareheaded in the sun. Every care was taken of San zede by his employee. In order that he should want for nothing, and be better attended to, he was, on the advice of the doctor, brought down from his room at the top of the house, and installed very comfortably in a room in his master's apartment. His condition had so greatly improved that it was expected be would be able to resume work in a few days. At a little after 4 o'clock on Saturday after. noon Sanzede • suddenly jumped out of Led, and, in a fit of raving madness, seized a hatchet,which he had found in the pantry. Clad in nothing but his night-gown, he rushed about the apartment, screaming and slashing at everything he found in his way. Hearing the uproar Madame Poitevin, whose husband was absent from home, came out of her room and tried to calm the madman. Sanzede, without recognizing her, went on slashing away, and wounded his mistress very seriously with four terrific blows on the head. She fell to the ground, shouting for help. By this time several persons in the house had come to try to disarm the madman. Rushing upon them, Jean first struck Josephine Bon two blows on the head with the hatchet,and then slashed open the cheek of the concierge and cut elf two of his fingers. The screams of the victims and the shouts for help of those who witnessed this terrible scene only increased the fury of the madman, who, throwing down his weapon, seized Eugenie Dailey, the cook, in his arms, and, carrying her, jumped out of the window into the courtyard. Fortunately, the apartment was on the first floor, otherwise the madman and the cook would have been killed on the spot. As it happened, Eugenie Dailey was seriously injured. Her head was cut open,and she was very much bruised and greatly shaken. Jean Sanziide was scarcely hurt at all. but, strange to say, the fall had the effect of rendering him perfectly calm and docile. Ilowever,he did not seem conscious of what he had done, and was greatly astonished at the commotion of the people around him. He was taken back to his bed, and watched by two policemen till he could be transferred to the Larihoisiere Hospital. The condition of two of the madman's victims, Madame Poitevin and Eugenie Dailey, is very critical. The wounds of Josephine Bun and of the concierge are less serious. Since he reached the hospital Sanzede bas been perfectly calm.  It appears from information given by a Portuguese foreman of public works, who has just arrived at Lisbon from Mozambique, that Lieutenant Valadin's expedition was betrayed and massacred while having friendly interviewa with the chiefs of Mataea. After undergoing frightful tortures to make him divulge the object of the expedition, Valadin was beheaded by the chief's eon, and the rest of the expedition, numbering 200, were all murdered with the exception of 20, who escaped.  Two boys, Sumpton, on of a farmer at West Buckland, near Wellington, Sumerset, and Brown, Eon of one of Mr. Sunipton's labourers, were playirg with a gun on Saturday, vi ben Brown, pointing it at Sumpton, said, "May I shoot at you?' Sumpton answered, " Yes." The gun was loaded; Brown discharged it, and Sumpton received what scot, proved to be fatal injuries.  _ The influenza epidemic continues to spread through India. Hitherto in Calcutta it has been almost entirely confined to the native quarter, but it is now raging there to such In extent that most offices are short-handed. The Seebpore Engineering College, on the opposite side of the river, has been closed for three weeks, as 70 of the students were attacked. The disease seems to be of a mild type, rarely lasting longer than three days.