The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1885-07-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PARIS.  larchandon, which has so much excited the curiosity of Parisians, concluded with a verdict of guilty. The reenut was received by the large audience without much surprise, but many dark looks were directed at the woman Blin, who was regardo as having contributed to the ruin of the doomed prisoner. The murderer fell back in his seat on hearing his sentence, and had to be carried tottering out of the court. The Advocate. General, represented Marchandon as a vulgar domestic, a miserable hypocrite, as a calculating, cold-blooded murderer. Proof of the premeditation of the terrible crime was evident, from the testimony of the witnesses, the medical evidence, and the very contradictions which Marchandon had uttered in his examinations Its to the weapon with which he committed the fearful murder. It is clear that the prisoner entered Madame Cornet's room with the intention of committing the murder, for in the lady's wardrobe he expected to find important sums of money. He had his braces ready to strangle the victim should he find it easier to use them than his knife. He had cut away the wire of the alarum bell, and from his lurking-place behind the curtains he had precipitated himself on on his victim, and, seizing her by the hair, cut her throat from ear to ear. Maitre Danet addressing the Court for the defence, did not deny than Marchandon was a thief, but he contended that the stuff of a murderer was not in him. He was, moreover, led away by his passion for Jeanne Blin, who had an extraordinary influence over him. When the sentence of death was pronounced the murderer became livid, and fainted after he was led to the room reserved for the condemned. His mother, on hearing the result of the trial, filled the Palais de Justice with her cries. Jeanne Blin had to be led out by a side passage of the Palais opening on one of the quays, as the crowd outside loudly threatened to use her roughly. Marchandon was taken to the Conmergerie in the evening, and had several fainting fits. Blin, Marchandon's mistress, has been the object of much attention and curiosity before and since the trial. Her appearance at the Court House stamped her as a real specimen of her class— cold, calculating, and pitiless. The fact that Marehandon gave her the greater part, if not all, of his plunder, proved that, as Maitre Danet made a point of observing, she had caused the murderer to become her devoted slave. Blin has given an account of herself which is evidently framed for the putpow of throwing dust in the eyes of those people who are too prone to pity. She states that she was altogether unprepared for the excess of popular indignation to which she had been treated. especially after the Juge d'lnstruction and the head of criminal police had exonerated her from all blame in the matter. She regretted she bad not told a lie in order to nave Marchandon, and had not stated that she had instigated him to commit the crime. This was not, however, because she loved him, but rather because she considered that sheowed him soinethit,g for having taken her out of the streets. Referring to what had been described as her callous aud cynical appearance before the assize court, Blin said that, in the first place, she did not hear the Advocate - General well, as an attack of typhus fever had nearly made her deaf. In the second place she was obliged to use all her powers of selfpossession, as she was afraid of falling intohyeterics or fainting. Jeanne Blin further affirmed that she had refused to accept offers to exhibit herself at shows, and that she intended to retire to some obscure place after having changed her name. Already Marchandon'e furniture at Compiegne has been brought to the hammer. Over 200 persons attended the sale, foremost amongst them being Jeanne Blin herself. An enterprising Compiegne broker purchased most of the furniture, which is to be brought to Paris and exhibited at 50c. a head admission.