The Sun. — 1846-08-24 (London, England)

HORRID MURDER IN FRANCE. The Gazette de Tribunaux gives the following details of the murder in the Rue Montmatre, the main facts of which have already appeared in the Messenger :—" Relatisns of business, which led at length to personal intimacy, had existed between M. Lejeune and M. Jay, the latter of whom has made his name well known by his mechanism, called Jayotype,' for which he has taken out several patents. M. Lejeune, who is a master tailor, is a remarkably good-looking man, about 28 years old. As to M. Jay he was turned of 40, and rather ill than good-looking. M. Lejeune, however, whose wife is young and pretty, had conceived a jealousy of M. Jay. His suspicions, which were at first vague, had latterly become more fixed, and to such an extent was his mind affected, that after having broken off all relations with M. Jay, he is said to have informed the commissary of police of the quarter, that if he should ever find M. Jay alone with his wife, he would proceed to the last extremities. Things were in this state when, on Tuesday morning, M. Lejeune told his wife that he had received a pressing order, which compelled him to set out immediately for Rouen, and at about four in the afternoon he proposed that his wife should accompany him as far as the railroad station, in the Rue St. Lazare. She did so, and did not leave him until she had seen him take his seat in the train. This pretended departure, however, was only a feint, which has been practised by a thousand husbands, and which unfortunately is almost always successful. Lejeune had no sooner arrived at the first station of Asnieres, than he left the Rouen train and returned to Paris by one from Versailles. He proceeded to the Rue Neuve Vivienne, and placed himself in a position to watch the shop of M. Jay. We are informed that whilst he was there watching, he saw a letter delivered to M. Jay, which he concluded was from Madame Lejeune. About nine o'clock in the evening M. nila ettl hour. He proJay, whose wife and children are in the country, left his , which indicated o Lejeune, and thatsc laeeodp e,inti.ody gavetuhlwould n Roi instructions icuotrinno tnmu attr? rheais verysho p followed by M. Jay having entered the house where Madame Lejeune was, the husband after waiting some time went in also, and by means of a second key. which he carried penetrated into his room, and saw the guilty parties in bed, with a nightlight burning near them. At this sight Lejeune lost all control over himeelf, and taking a pistol from his pocket attacked Monsieur Jay in the breast tired at M. Jay, but his hand being agitated his victim was untouched. He then drew forth a couteau poignard, which he was in the habit of carrying in the pocket f in his sleep, could offer no resistance, and expired after uttering a few words As to Mdme. Lejeune, she was more dead than alive, and severalo his ptai ml e teost. , Monsieur and could rather imagine than see the scene that was passing. When the unfortunate Jay was dead, Lejeune, who bad in some degree recovered from his fur y, Went down stairs and said to the porter of the house, ~ I have just killed my wife's lover; go and tell the Commissary of Police and the Procureur du Roi that lam waiting for them." The porter went instantly to the office of the commissary, M. Couesna, in the Marche St. Joseph, exactly opposite the house in which this dreadful affair had taken place. When the commissary arrived, Lejeune surrendered himself, and said he was ready to answer for what he had done. The commissary placed a guard over him during the night, and on the following morning sent him to the Perfecture of Police. In the course of the day, the Procureur du Roi had Lejeune brought to the house and confronted with the dead body. lie repeated his former declaration with much calmness, and was then taken to the prison of the Conciergerie." The Gazette des Tribunaux states that Madame Lejeune has not been arrested, but is gone to reside with her family. Lejeune, alluded to above, appeared yesterday before the Court of Assizes of the Seine as witness in a case of robbery. He had been brought under guard from the Conciergerie to give his evidence, which amounted to nothing. He is a man of small stature, pale, and with fair hair. His appearance is that of a German, and he speaks with a foreign accent. He did not appear much cast down by the position in which he is placed.