Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1877-09-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MURDER IN PARIS.  The Court of Assizes of the Seine on Tuesday tried a man named Dupont for murdering his wife under more than usually brutal circumstances. The criminal is humpbacked and otherwise deformed, his large head scarcely emerging to sight from the dock where he was placed for trial. In 181, at Saulaines (Eure-et-Loir), he married Maria Montabrut, who had become attached to him. They purchased a small grocery business from the father of the accused, but the idles ness, dissipation, and debauchery of the latter soon led to ruin. The pair then came to Paris, but Dupont continued the same habits. On the evening of the Ist of June he went to the bazaar and talked with his wife for some time, and a few words overheard in their conversation led to the supposition that Madame Dupont had at length refused to listen to the constant demands for money made by her brutal husband. He suddenly seized his wife by the neck, so as to make her lean forward, and then stabbed her with a knife. She attempted to escape, but he followed, threw her down, and again struck her, severing the carotid artery, the result being almost instant death. In evidence a letter was produced, written by the criminal to his parents on the morning of the day of the murder, stating his intention of committing the crime. A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury, and Dupont was sentenced to death. He, however, stands some chance of escaping his doom. The conformation of his hump would prevent the blade of the guillotine from severing the neck. About twenty years ago a similar circumstance occurred, in the case of a man named Sismondi, whom MI account of hi deformity, the executioner of the Oard refused to place on the scaffold, and whose penalty was, in consequence commuted.  SINGULAR ESCAPADE_ OF A PACK OF  HARRII'ItS.  At an early hour on Thursday morning the inhabitants of most of the leading thoroughfares in York were somewhat startled by a rather odd adveeture on the part of a pack of harriers belonging to Sir Talbot Constable, of North Ferriby. Sir Talbot's whip had brought the pack from home on Wednesday, and they were kennelled overnight at the Museum-street stables. The journey to the moors was being recommenced on Thursday morning at about half-past six, when one of the harriers attacked a retriever in the street near Thomas's Hotel. The retriever was vanquished and made off towards the Minster, when the whole pack gave chase. The retriever threaded first one and then anther of the numerous narrow streets around the Minster, and then, followed by the five-and-twenty couples of harriers, struck out for Parliament-street. All the thoroughfares hereabouts were traversed, and the efforts of the whip, who, horn in hand and well mounted, tried to cut short the career of the runaways, were in vain. The retriever ultimately reached a hiding-place, and no sooner had he done sm. than a. stray terrier WitA started, and the fun went on for another half-hour at least, in the course of which all the streets in the heart of the city were cleared of the canine species, and much amusement was afforded to a crowd of onlookers.  The Liberal Clubs of Leigh and Tydlesley had an excursion to Ilawartlen on Saturday. In responding to a vote of thanks, Mr. Gladstone spoke rif the Turkish Government as one that had put itself beyond the pale of belief, except where its statements were confirmed in other quarters. Cruelties had, however, been committed by the Bulgarians in revenge, but he trusted that the Russians would treat the guilty persons iii a way exactly the reverse of that in which the Turkish Government treated the Mthantmedans who committed the atrocities in Bulgaria last year. He hoped the Russian Government would deliver the oppressed provinces without turning the work to selfish aims, and then it would earn immortal glory.