The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LIFT.  DOI/81,1  As a priest-Ve-h-ai alW;;;;;;;MZ-11 extremely devoted to his duties, so much so that one old lady left him by her will £640 to be distributed in charity as he saw tit, and several parishioners had been induced to trust him with considerable sums of money under various pretexts. With the money obtained by these means, and with the proceeds of his robberies, Bruneau led a life of the most degraded profligacy. At night, having divested himself of his priest's attire, and dressed as an ordinary civilian, be sallied forth to the neighboating town of Laval, where he was•well known in some of the vilest dens in the place. Frequently he would be seen with women of loose character carousing at taverns until the early hours, yet in the morning he was always at his post at Entraromes as thmgh nothing had happened. On one ocesmon he actually went to a house of infante attired as a priest, and on a remark being made about it, he cynically said, " Bah, I am not the only priest who Domes here. I daresay." One night when Bruneau was at Laval, a widow who kept a florist's shop there was murdered, and the tontents of her till were abstracted. The poor woman's throat war cut, and she was  STABBED REPEATEDLY IN TUB twin with such violence that the knife with which the deed was committed, and which was found near her body, was bent and notched. Several caber n swore that Bruneau was a regular customer at the shop, and one reported that be drove him nesithere on the night of the murder after the was closed. Moreover, among the keys place d in Bruneau's potatession was one which exactly fitted the street door of the murdered woman's house, and there were other eiratm, stanoes which pointed to his guilt, as, for instance. the fact that a man answering to his description had called upon several people in the town and bad endeavoured to throw suspicion upon& relative of the florist's, who lived next door to her. There is vet another murder of which he is snapeoted, although for want of sufficient evidence it was not evetioned among the charges against him. A lock-keeper, who had been heard to say ,that he had strspicious with regard to Bruneau, was one night POUND DEAD 15 TIID RIVER ..  He had been stabbed, and his body had been thrown into the water. As for the robberiee of i which Brunetti is suspected, they are innumerable. ! Over ninety witnesses were called to depose to the facts with regard to them. It may easily be' imagined how great is the feeling ot relief in Laval and its neighbourhood now that no dangerous a criminal is no longer at large. Strange to say, there is one yerson who still sympathises with Bruneau, and that is a young girl belonging to a highly respectable family, to whom he seems to have paid marked attentions. This girl showed unmistakable partiality for him by the way she gave her evidence at the trial, in the course of which the went into hysterics. She was called to prove that Braman had given her a valuable watch and chain, but this she denied, saying that it was given to her by one of her ethoolfelws. The schoolfellow in queetion, on being called. declared that this was false, and that it was within her knowledge that Belleau was the donor'.  It NA, No Supeotrors ! Tbe most esbefottory Sow the 'mkt Us over produced Is 12 BA. No SUSIRTITUTS ! 11UXVIDN'S Exmoor or IloAr 11 tamales miabilolood over  from to Richmond by special train, and, was presented upon her arrival with a bier congratlatory address by the Mayor of Riebasseet ‘Oll, behalf of the burgesses of the town. The Queen having replied elm proceeded, amid &down pour of rain, oo the two and abalf miles' drive to White Lodge. The oarriages were mooned by a detachment of the Eighth Hussars, • detachment of the Coldstream Guards having aoted an a fined el honour at the station. The whole of the roots wee .gaily decorated, but the rain spoiled the while the closed carriages, with windows We= by the rain, in which the Royal party sat left little for the damp but enthusiastic and cheering onlookers to gaze upon. The Queen wan received by the Duke of Ted:, and the D11e110613 of York was one of the first within the hewn to greet Her Majesty, who Meanie