The Sun. — 1842-03-31 (London, England)

ABDUCTION.—The Liverpool Magistrates were engaged for many hours yesterday in the investigation of a transaction which has given rise to much gossip in Lancashire, namely, the abduction of a lady of forty years of age, whom certain parties, by means of wine and various devices, carried off to Gretna-green, and had her married to one of them, according to her evidence, against her consent. The names of the parties are John Orr M.Gill, John Osborne Quick, Thomas Wormand Rogerson, Richard Jones, Margaret Jones, and Jane Clayton. The above prisoners were placed at the bar. Th; charge was„that the parties had taken Miss Ann Crelin, a lady who was reputed to possess a very large property (according to rumours which have been rife, not less than 40,0001., 50,0001., or 60,0001.), away to Gretna-green, where she had, against her consent, and while under the influence of some potion which had been administered to her, been married to the prisoner, John Orr It appeared, howeyer, from the lady's own account, that she had Rot 5,0001. After a lengthened inquiry the prisoners were remanded till next day. Last week, at the Court of Assize of the Saone-etLoire, a man named Laborier was tried for the murder and robbery of the widowiDucrot, who kept a wine-shop at Macon. The crime was committed in December last, and the prisoner was arrested in Geneva the following month. This man, whose character was of the worst description, confessed his crime immediately. Ho said that having but two sous left, and not knowing where to find a sleepingplace, he knocked at the door of the widow Ducrot's house, in the hope of persuading her to let him in. She spoke to him from the window, and then came down to open the door. It was, he said, at the moment the door was opening that the idea of the murder and robbery came across his mind. He struck her a violent blow with his fist on the head which stunned her, and then tied a rope round her neck and strangled her, He immediately ransacked the drawers of the table, and took away about 600 f., together with a gold chain and ring, which his victim wore at the time. On the trial, the great point of interest arose respecting the truth of the prisoner's statement, that the crime was unpremeditated. Several circumstances—such as his declaring the day before that he was to receive money in a day or two—his having a rope with him when he struck the woman down—and the evidence of. a medical man, that the blow on the head was not given with the hand— seemed to prove that Laborier was nit telling the whole truth. The jury, however, gave in a verdict of attenuating circumstances, and he was condemned to bard labour at the hulks for life. A remarkable individual died on the 4th instant at Lons-le-Saulnier. This was aM.C. T. born in Paris, and one of the wealthiest butchers in the Faubourg St. Antoine. He was better known by the name of Chariot, which he in some measure immortalised. He tpoaps s eodf ai n pike ur tthoew nf heador theof. thbueteunhefrorwtunhottetearrPirined coeisisthdee Lamballe. He came to settle a few, years afterwards at Lons-le-Saulnier, where his name was not known, and where he continued to follow the profeiniOn Of Et butchtt until his death.—Sentinclle ds Jura.  SPIRIT of the