Weekly News. — 1890-02-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL.  slier° was, telegraphs a Paris correspondent, something approaching a riot at Grenoble late on Saturday night. The cause of the excitement was the verdict given by the Isere asnize jury in the murder case which had occupied the court the whole of the latter half of the week. In January, 1889, the corpse of one Cogne, a vine-grower of Vinay, was found lying at the foot; of a precipice. It wee at first supposed that he had met his death accidentally, but on examination the body was found to bear marks of violence. Suspicion turned on the widow of the deceased, a middle-aged woman and the mother of four children, and a man named Baret, with whom she was known to have broken her marriage vows. Baret was arrested but released after a month's detention for lack of evidence against him. He had been at liberty for three months when orders were given for his arrest a second time. He now confessed that he had murdered Cogne, saying that he had been incited to do the crime by Mdme. Cogne, who was subsequently placed in the dock along with her lover. In the course of the trial Beret declared that he had falsely accused Mdme. Cecile in the hone that she would be sentenced along with him, and that they would be transported together to Africa, where they might marry. Mdme. Cogne denied consistently that she had urged Beret to rid her of her husband, but it was proved conclusively that she had facilitated the commission of .the crime. Her husband was on the night of the murder proceeding to a neighbouring town, and Mdme. Cogne had informed Baret of his intention, and had by advancing the hands of the only clock they possessed got him to leave home two hours earlier than he ought to have done so that he arrived at the dangerousdenerted place at which he was killed in the middle of the night.—Marie Cogne, a ten-year-old child, was one of thewitnewies against her niother,w ho said she bade her say that her father left home at 4 o'clock in the morning. Two witnesses who lived with the Cognes testified that they had heard the clock strike 4 when they knew it was only 2 o'clock in the morning. During the whole of the trial the court-house was packed. Public feeling was very strong against Mdnie. Cogne, and when the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty against her there was a perfect howl of indignatim. Outside the court an enormous crowd had gathered to await the verdict. When the news of Mdnie. Cogne's acquittal reached them they went wild with excitement, and cries of "A mart 1" "A mart 1" rose on the night air. Buret was found guilty, and as extenuating circumstances were urged in his behalf by the jury, he escaped the guillotine, being condemned to hard labour for life.  "Herren, the murderer of a man named Williams, at Finsbury Park, North London, has been arrested at New York under an extradition warrant. When lodged in his cell he tore his throat with a nail, inflicting • horrible wound. The murder WSU committed in January of last year. Two privates of the Leinster Regiment, named O'Hara and Bellew, have been pm on their trial at the Calcutta High Court charged, the former with committing, and the latter with abetting, the murder of a native at Dumdum. After three days' hearing Bellew was acquitted; O'Hara wasconvicted and sentenced to death. The evidence tended to shew that the murder wan a particularly brutal one, I the prisoner having thrust the deceased into a tank and then deliberately shut him.  A singular agitation nas been carried on among the labourers of the country districts of Pomerania. The object has been to persuade them to emigrate to Brazil, and assurances have been made that the (lerman Emperor strongly approves of this course, and has expressed his readiness to relieve any labourers who may be disposed to emigrate of all further military service in order to join an army of Germans which is to be constituted In Brazil. At many of the farms the whole of the labourers have left work, and in some instances their behaviour has been so violent that their employers have been obliged to appeal to the local authorities for protee• then.