Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SENSATION TRIAL IN PARIS.  The trial for the Champerret murders was brought to a conduit°. on Setureny before the Immanent court-marital Of reels. writes the Correspondent of the Daily Nrlrs,I).,ring the two days that the trial lasted the hall in the Rue du Cherche-Miiii, where the court-martial sits, was crowded by civilians to an extent rarely seen in that locality. The story of two soldiers from St. Cloud having laid about them with their sabres in a public-house close to the Bois de Boulogne, in Paris, killed one person and nearly killed three others, naturally excited great sensation in Paris and the neighbours of the victims in the quarter of the Parc de Neuilly flocked to the Rue du Cherubs-Midi to see the denoument of the terrible drama. The two prisoners, private soldiers in the Voltigenrs of the Imperial Guard, named Ciosi and Agostini, are both Corsicans. The facts indisputably proved in evidence are that they, having obtained leave of absence from the St. Cloud barracks, went to the Lyons railway station at theother extremity of Paris to see acuiintry.man off to Marseilles. On their way back they stopped for refreshment at a small wine shop kept by one Vitte in the Rue du Bois at Champerret, just outside the barrier. After drinking, they asked to sleep there on the ground that one of them was so footsore that he could not get back to St. Cloud that night. They were provided with shakedowns in a hack room of the wine-chop; and in the course of the night they went away, having killed a lodger in the house, named Boromier, knocked out an eye of the landlord, Vitte, besides cutting him badly about the head, and murderously assaulted his wife andbrothers in-law. There are facts about which there is no doubt, The evidence, however, completely negatives the rumour originally spread that the assassins were executing a Corsican vendetta, and also the report that they meant to rob the house. The lamentable affair seems to have been the result of a drunken brawl, Vitte, the landlord deposes that he sat up late expecting the murdered man, Boromier by name, who was lodging in his house; that when Boromier came home Ciosi, who had gone to bed, got up, and while Bitting in his drawers drank hot wine with Boromier and "chaffed" with him. The soldiers and the civilian bragged about their prowess in boxing, and began snarrintr, but were begged by the landlord to leave off. The story told by ClOni is that after the landlord was asleep Boromier suddenly seized him by the throat, saying, " This is the way I treat &professor of boxing," and that then thinking he was in danger he took his sword to defend himself and cut Boromier in the head ; that the scuffle called up his comrade Agoetini, Madame "tritte, and her brother; and that the wounds inflicted upon them and the landlord were given while they were forcing their way out of the house, The Judge-Advocate suggested that r ibbery must have been the motive of their crime, because while they were in the house a creditor of the landlord called for some money, and the latter offered him 200 f. on account, which he declined to accept saying he would call another day for the whole. It was adivitted, however, by the prosecution. that no rubwas committed, and that there ,W—as no proof of any having been contemplated. Th:r men had fair Characters in their regiments, and both wore the Crimean and Italian medals. The Court found them guilty of assassination with premeditation, and sentenced them both to death._  A circiunstance which Gild materially against the prisoners was that, aco,irding to the medical evidence, Vitte, the landlord, who was most greviously injured, must have beea attacked in his sleep, and he had no recollection of any struggle. The Champerret affair is used as an additional and weighty argument on behalf of the growing opinion that soldiers when off duty should not be allowed to go about with their arm..