Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-10-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SENSATIONAL CRIME IN PARIS.  The Rue Boise), d'Anglas, Paris, which is one ot the most frequented streets leading to the Champs Elysees from the Rue du Faubourg St. Honors and the Boulevard Malesherbes, has been the Keene of an attempted assassination, perpetrated under rather dramatic circumstances. At No. 14 of that street there is a tobacconist's shop, kept by a widow, Madame Roux, who was sitting at her counter alone at about 11 o'clock at night, when an individual whom she formerly knew by the name of Baron Didier, and who had always inspired her with fear, suddenly entered, and, stretching out his hand, said, "Why, Madame, don't you renien,ber me?" Before Madame Roux, who is a woman of about 40, had time to reply the assassin slipped a long knife from up his sleeve and struck her several blows with it in the neck and chest. Madame Roux, though seriously wounded, screamed out lustily, " Murder I murder !" and succeeded in reaching the door leading into the street. The porter of a neighbouring house happened to be passing, and caught Madame Roux just as she left the shop and was falling exhausted on the pavement. At the same moment the assailant also rushed out of the shop, he, too, crying "Murder murder !" but he had been seen by M. Pages,a gentleman of independent means, who ran after him, crying "Thief." The chase went on to the mayoralty 11 in the Rue d'Anjou, where a sentinel on duty barred the way of the fugitive, who coolly said, "You are I mistaken. I ant like those behind me chasing a murderer, and I fear tbat he will get off if there is the slightest delay." The gentleman coming up, cried to the sentinel not to let the wretch pass, and said that he could not possibly be mistaken as to his identity. A formal arrest was made. The prisoner said his real name was Claude Demangeat ; that he was a native of St. Marcel, in the Saone-et. Loire, and that he was but 27. He denied stoutly that he was the person who had stabbed Madame Roux, and declared that he was a cnnimercial traveller. "And that wound on your right hand ? " asked M. Casenove, the police commissary ; "and all this blood on your face and waistcoat ? " Demangeat affirmed that he was wounded and bespattered in trying to disarm the assassin, and with such apparent sincerity that M. Casenove thought perhaps what he said was true. He therefore sent to the tabacco shop to know whether Madame Roux was in a state to be confronted with the Prisoner. The doctor said he thought perhaps she was. The instant she saw the prisoner she said in a feeble voice, "Baron Didier," and then, gathering strength, she told the whole story. Demangeat sank to the ground, and made a full confession, but I he pretended that he stabbed her in a fit of anger because she had "thrown him over." This Madame Roux indignantly denied. It is supposed by the police that the miscreant thought he could easily murder the woman and then rob her till, but alarmed at her cries he was compelled to run away. He is an old offender. He has been 10 times sentenced for robbery and outrages, and was only liberated from prison on the previous day after undergoing a sentence of 13 months. The first thing he did on leaving it was to buy the kitchen knife. He is a little, dandified, effeminate. looking fellow, and wears showy clothes. On recovering his assurance he put on a cynical tone, and spoke of himself as being gifted with brilliant faculties. If society had given him a helping hand he would have been great, but he was spurned and maltreated, and if justice wanted his head, why, she might take it and welcome. Madame Roux's most serious wound was inflicted in the back, for the assailant struck with such mad rage that the blade of the long knife snapped, leaving part of it sticking in the flesh.  The Queen has appointed the Earl of Dufferin, Governor-General of India, to be Chancellor of the Etcyal University of Ireland, in succession to his Grace the late Duke of Abercorn.