The Express. — 1862-05-02 (London, England)

THE MURDER OP A FRENCH GENTLEMAN IN  TIPPERARY.  A correspondent of the Pression's Jottreal, witting from Clonmel, on Wednesday, stye:—" To-day I have learned that the unfortunate gentleman was walnag, not on the high road, as has been stated, but in a field, in close proximity to his own house, and that when be was last seen alive he carried under his arm a gun—a painful endemics, I apprehend, that he deemed it necessary not to appear abroad unarmed. If this should be correct, it is not straining to assume that, whoever the inhuman ruffian was, he absolutely shot Mr. This. bault with his own gun. This fact, it is alleged, indicates the absenoeof premeditation or of an conspiracy, and in surtaminent of this we are %bre believe in an encounter, a struggle, resulting in depriving him of his gun, and then followed the shot, which passed through his heart, and =flat have caumd Mamie/thous death. But, if the shot were the offspriag of • struggle, what can be said to account for the body exhibiting, it is reported, unmistakeable evidence of having been perforated with a sharp instrument in three different bat approximate places? Was this pitchfork-like wound inflicted before or after the *Detente of the gun were lodged in the heart ? If it can be ascertained this wound was inflicted first, it seems to favour the mere hypothesis that • struggle took place. If this lunge were administered after the gun shot, and consequently after death, it indicates an amount of barberous vindictiveness and insatiable bloodthirstiness almost without parallel in the records of inhuman seta. It does not seem probable:that the fork wounds Gould have been inflicted while the de. ceased was still armed with hie gun, which I believe was • double barrel one. In that aims it is reasonable to surmise that Mr. Thiebault would have fired to dieable his assailant, and that the report of the gm would have attracted attention ; but it is asserted that but one discharge was heard, and that one unquestionably was the fatal shot that deprived Mr. Thiebault of his life and crimsoned the green award of Tipperary with the blood of an inoffensive fellow-man. It is not yet perfectly clear why the police should have arrived at the conclusion that more than one was seemed in this noonday assassination. Three wee have been arrested on suspicion, but it has not transpired what constitutes the ground of the suspicion whether their previous character, or being included in the number of persons about to be evicted. The body when found presented a fearful eight. The head was dreadfully beaten—completely disfigured. It lay on its side in a perfect pool of blood, sod class by lay the gun and a three-pronged pitchfork—the double instruments of death. The latter has been recognised by • smith who lives in the locality, but he alleges it was stolen from his forge, by whom he cannot say. The inquest will commence to-marrow, when, after viewing the mangled remain sod taking some formal evidence, it is likely to be adjourned, to give the police time to connect the links, which at present seem rather indistinct." The Freeman states that a report which obtained some currency in town on the previous day, to the effect thst tbe wife of the victim of this diabolical murrlpr had succumbed to the desperate severity of the shock she experienced when the fate of her husband was communicated to her, remained without confirmation.  FREeDOM OF