The Express. — 1857-12-15 (London, England)

OWN 00111UNTOMDINT.)  PARIS. MONDAY EVENING,  A trial for murder comes on this day at Evreux, which is destined to take rank among the most celebrated of rouses ellibres. A lady of noble family, handsome fortune, and hitherto unblemished character, inhabiting the ancestral mansion of her late husband, her two sons, and an old faithful servant, are accused of the wilful murder of a neighbour who was at one time on intimate terms with tho family, but whose acquaintance, for rations which do not clearly appear, it was lately desired to drop. The circumstances, so far as they are at present known, and can with propriety be related, are shortly as follows:—Madame de 'outcome, is the widow of M. de Lanidpce de Jeufosse, a cavalry officer of some distinction, who retired from the service on the accession of Louis Philippe, in 1630, and from that period to the time of his death, about ten years since, resided on his estate, the Chateau de Jeufosse, a few miles from Ewen:. M. de Jeerer. lett • widow, two sons, and one daughter, end a fortune of about 1,0001. a year. Madame do Jeufosse, whose maiden name was lie Beauvais, belonged to an old and much respected family of Vein. She is now fortynine years of age. Her two sons, Ernest and Albert de Jeufosse, now respectively of the ages of twentyfive and twenty-two years, have, since their educetion was finished, been in the habit of paring the greater part of the year in Paris, where they did business at the Bourse. They always, however, went to stay with their mother at the chateau during • part of the summer. The daughter, Madlle. Blanche de leakage, is in her nineteenth year. Since the death of her husband, Madame de Jeufosse lived a very retired life, and devoted herself to the education of her children. At the time of the tragical event to be presently mentioned there was a governess in the house, named Madlle. Laurence Thourery, a young lady about twenty years old. Crespel, the man servant (forty-three years old), was born at Jeufoese, and has passed all his life in the service of the family. the name of the individual whose violent death is the subject of the now pending inquiry was Emile Ouillot, and this completes the dramatis persona.. M. Ouillot belonged to a rich tradesman's family, of °anion, a village not fur from hurter. His father was a government contractor, and had left all hie sons, of whom there were several, 1,0001. a year a piece. M. Emile Ouillot, who was thirty-two years of age, was married to a young wife, and had two children of tender years. He is described as having been • person of ' frank pleasing manners. Although the 'edam family was, both in feeling and habit, altogether aristocratic, and seldom visited any but aristocratic families, it happened that about two years since a more than ordinary intimacy sprung up between them and M. and Madame Ouillot. This intimacy continued down to January in this year, when, for reasons, which as Madame de leafage is alleged to have stated, concerned the honour of her family, she determined to break off the acquaintance. H. Ouillot had brought scandal upon the governess, and then addressed himself with similar impropriety to the daughter. Madame Guillot at once resigned herself to this rupture, but M. Gullet could not, or would not, bring himself to believe that it was serious and final. He thought Madame de Jeurosee had merely given way to a momentary caprice, and that there would be no difficulty in renewing the old friendship, which he appeared greatly to desire. He waylaid the family whenever they went out, and spoke to them gaily as if nothing had happened. Madame de Jeerers was greatly annoyed at these attempts to make her revoke what, on her part, was a settled resolution. Many anecdotes of these forced interviews are current, which will, no doubt, be elucidated at the trial. The Chateau de Jeufosse tt a building of the time of Louis