Glasgow Courier. — 1862-12-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FOR MURDER. the f tof Assizes of days in trying a charges of sourof July last, in • named Bouchet, - of the day a labourer to enter the kitchen was horrified to find her a pool of blood, with her Be immediately gave the I his master and mistress, of whom were ~ _ at the tine, it was aseer' that a sum of 2,470 francs and a silver watch •-• stolen. Suspicion immediately fell upon .sed Gardon, who had been absent from his .s without permission for several days, and the farmer also remembered that Gardon knew the money was in the house through having been present when he (the farmer) counted it and put it in the very cupboard from whence it had been stolen. The prisoner was accordingly arrested, and on his person was found a 100 fr. gold piece, for the possession of which he could not account, and as there had been a piece of that value in the money lost, little doubt was entertained that he was the thief and murderer. His clothes also bore marks of blood. The prisoner at first protested that he was innocent, but afterwards declared that he and his master ha e committed the murder together, and that the latter had given him the 100 fr. piece. In support of this improbable confession, he told a well-concocted story, to the effect that his master, being anxious to give a sum of money to an illegitimate child, unknown to his wife (Mme. Bouchet), had resolved to simulate a robbery with his (prisoner's) assistance, and that, as the servant was in the way, they had murdered her. The falsehood of this story was promptly demonstrated by an indisputable alibi being proved by the farmer, and the police having learned that the prisoner had been to visit his soother, in a neighbouring village, since the crime, her house was searched, and under the thatch the stolen money and watch were found. Numerous witnesses were examined, whose evidence, together with the material facts discovered, left no doubt as to the fact that the prisoner alone had committed both the murder and the robbery. In tzresence of such overwhelming proofs the prisoner's counsel could only appeal to the jury to grant his client the benefit of extenuating circumstances, but he did so in vain, for they brought in a simple verdict of guilty, and the court accordingly condemned the prisoner to death. The same paper says : —The Court of Assites of the Buses Pyrenees has tried a man named Trappe, aged 42, residing at Lespourcy, on a charge of having murdered Marie Canton, his sister-in-law, a poor, infirm old woman, who lived with him and his wife. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had been for some time on bad terms with his sister-in-law, because he suspected that she intended to alter her will made in his favour, and to leave her property, consisting of a patch of land worth about 600 f., to a nephew. On the morning of the 10th September a quarrel occurred between the deceased and the prisoner, whose wife was absent at the time. Several of the neighbours heard cries of distress, but took no notice of them. Later in the day, however, it became known that Marie Canton was dead, and the prisoner and his wife stated that she had died in consequence of a bad fall. A post mortent examination, however, proved that the poor woman had been murdered by strangulation and pressure on the chest, three of her ribs being broken. The prisoner was accordingly arrested. In all his examinations' and also in court, the prisoner persisted in asserting that the deceased had died from the effects of a fall, but the medical witnesses prdved that the injuries she had received could not have been so caused. After hearing a number of witnesses and counsel for the defence, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty without premeditation, and the court seltenced the prisoner to twenty years' hard abonr.  alarm, both of tained . had been . the accused service •  Galignani informs us s Puy-de-Dome has just been, farm servant named Gardon der and robbery, committed t the dwelling of his employer, residing at Tremouline. On above-mentioned, a mar employed on the farm, to speak to the ma lying dead on the skull dreadfully fr - and on the