Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-11-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TEL.—Choice teas at very reasonable price. are always to be had of Borniman's Agents; Chemists Inevery Town. Messrs. Homlman guarantee the purity, strength, and flavour of all their teas. Their Agents are constantly receiving fresh supplies from the Wholesale Lond House.  A phopos of the Browning "cult," there are no fewer than 16 recognised Browning Societies in various provincial towns of England. The cult "flourishes most in the great manufacturing Centres Ton thieves who stopped the Bremen mail-cart between Guarrenburg and Oldenbuttel had a big haul. They managed to get clear away with registered letters and postal orders to the value of 160,000 marks.  In the Assize Court of Paris the trial has taken place of • precocious murderer and criminal of the deepest dye, named Gustave Naps, who commenced his career of vice and bloodshed at the age of 14, and found himself charged, in his 20th year, with two "murders "and two attempts to "seriously injure fellow-creatures. Raps comes of an honest stock of hard-working Alsatians, living in Paris. On leaving a reformatory at the age of 14, the pffimiaing boy apprenticed himself to • " Pagin," and soon found himself in prison, together with his learned preceptor. In the year 1281 an old man named Vinyard was found banged and horribly mutilated in his room in a M6nilmontant garret. His murderer or murderers had stolen all he possessed in the world—six francs —and when the police were prosecuting their inquiries in the neighbourhood young Raps was very officious in giving them particulars about the manners and customs of Nre Vincard. No one however, thought of suspecting the meek and goodlooking boy of 14 as the old man's assassin, but the able youth was eestined to be betrayed by a female. Three years after the murder of Pre Vinyard, Naps was big enough to become a ,u'eueter, so he kept company with • girl named I.6ontine Demi, who paid him • regular salary for his prot,tion. To this woman Raps, when in his cups, once confessed that he had done the Pee Vincard to death. I.4ontine kept the secret well until one evening after Naps had come out of prison for theft, when he took her to • low dancing-saloon, and there began to joke, clink glasses, and flirt with another girl; then and there Leontine, fired with female jealousy, threatened to " peach " on her "fancy-man," whereupon that interesting person took her promptly home, and, while she was asleep, lodged a brace of bullets in her brains. The criminal was arrested, and was compelled by the jive d'instruction to admit that he had murdered his mistress, not through jealousy, but because she had his secret. In the meantime a hoot companion of Raps, named Dauch,, after having informed the imbue that his friend was the murderer of the rive Vinyard, went back on his information, and, probably through fear of the redoubtable Raps, said that he knew nothing ' at all about the Case. Raps, while being examined by a magistrate, made desperate efforts to permanently injure the man of the Republican Guard who bad charge of him by striking him on the head with a heavy piece of iron. He also struck the girl Delaquis, who deposed that she had heard LUontine Drieu threaten him at the hal-mieseele. The criminal showed considerable calmness during the trial, and, while admitting the murder of his mistress, he said that he had only assisted in slaying the old man at Menilmontant. Like Prado, however, he refused to divulge the name of his co partner in crime. Kaps was comb mned to the "guillotine," and received his terrible sentence with composure.