The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-05-08 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

MURDER OF A LADY . PHOTOGRAPHER. ' The Court of Assizes of the Seine has :just tried a band of thirteen men and one woman for a number A photographer's assistant named C eorge Cooper of robberies and the murder of an old lady in Parie. was charged at Northampton on Saturday with obtaining money by false pretences. The attention The capital crime was committed under circumstances of the most atrocious deliberatenese. Three of the of the police was lately called to the folic:ming admen bad heard that a Mdme. Roug re, aged '7F, lived vertisement :—. Two-and-sixpence per hour easily alone at No. 242, Rue de Vaugirard, and posseeeed earned by beginners (either sex), by preparing some property, and resolved on her death. One of carte de visite papers at their own homes, at ed. them called on her under the pretext of taking the per dozen. Employment permanent. Trial packet and instructions ls.—Davis Brothers, measurement for some painter's work to be done, to reconnoitre the place. Shortly after they went Hardingstone, Northampton." Hardingstone is a l together one afternoon pretending that they had aittle village about a mile from Northampton, and bill for payment to present; she admitted them, no firm of the name of "Davis Brothers" is known and was putting on her spectacles to examine a Ithere. The police se e t a watch, found that the paper they had given to her, when they seized her prisoner called for the letters acidressed as into hi and strangled her. They then began to search the in the advertisement, and took m apartment, expecting to find a sum of more than custody. Letters were found on him from people 10,000 f., but fearing that they had been seen from asking for samples and instractions, and enclosing an opposite window, they made off, tatcingib one shilling's worth of stamps. The police had only about 50f. in money, which she had in also ascertained that there were upwards of 300 her pocket, a silver mug, and her weddirg ring letters at the post-office addressed to Davis Bros. and eardrops. This occurred on the let of October. It was stated that the paper which the prisoner The police failed to discover the criminals, but sent as samples ie not used at all in the art of about a fortnight later four men were arrested for photography, and that the prisoner was not in a robbery at Clamart, when one of them, named position to give permanent employment to any one, Maillot, confessed that he and two of his cons- las he was only in the employ of a photographer in the town. The instructions told those who were pinions. Georges and Thauvahe were the perpetra. induced to send the twelve stamps to apply the tors of. the murder in the Rue de Vaugirard. The w disclosures he made led to tho arrest of the whole white of a new laid egg with the forefinger to the band, and their being now brought to trial. The paper, and if properly laid on eightpence would be paid for each dozen pieces. The prisoner wastefact of Maillot having betrayed his alcomelices did not save his life, as he and the two others named mended, and was admitted to bail in two sureties above have now been condemned to death; two Qf ' each. . others of the accused are sentenced to hard labour for life; one for twenty years, one to If can years;