The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-11-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BIURDER OF A FRENCH BARON.  The murder of a nobleman who was well known in English sporting circles is thus told by the French papers :—" The Chateau of Amponillac is an ancient dependency of the Abbey of Boulbonne, arrondissement of Muret, It is situated on the banks of the Ariege, and was lately the property of Madame Uneyraud, a lady of lunch distinction in Toulouse society, who died six months ago, of apoplexy. The property then passed into the hands of her son-inlaw, Baron is la Trotubelle, who inhabited Paris all the year, and was well known as an accomplished sportsman and an excellent bead of a family. Towards the end of September he returned from a journey to England, and proceeded alone to the chateau to instal in it a new intendant. The charge of the building had been confided, since the death of Madame Gueyraud, to one of her servants, a man named Eugene Mitron, aged 28. The baron, immediately on his arrival, applied himself to setting things is order, and announced his intention of putting the property up for sale. fie had fitted up a room on the first floor for a cabinet de travail, and slept in the story above. Mitron, who had lived alone in the chateau, was intimate with a carpenter of the neighbourhood, named Lasserre, a man of bad reputation, and this last is supposed to have proposed the crime. Whilst the baron was working in his cabinet, Mitron descended, at eight in the evening, to the kitchen, and urged the gardener's wife, who acted as Co k, but did not sleep in the house, to go home. She did so, and in a few moments after Lasserre was let in, and the two accomplices, after having taken off their shoes and left a lamp in the corridor, entered the room where the victim was sitting. Mitron addressed his ma,ter as if to ask for orders, and then gave place to Laaserre, who advanced two steps, and, raising a hatchet, struck the baroo a terrible blow on the nape of the neck. The victim fell, mortally wounded, and the murderer despatched him by two more blows on the temple. The accomplices then made for the corpse a complete bed of papers and old reregisters, to which they set fire ; and after having pillaged the drawers of a sum of 3,000 f., left the house, and went out to drink and smoke in the grounds,iwatting for the flames to break out. At two in the morning Mitron rushed into the court with cries of fire, and the people of the farm buildings doso by came and mounted to the room, which was full of smoke. They nevertheless entered and extinguished the fire, which was smouldering under the calcined remains of the victim. The skull, however, remained intact, and showed all the tuarks of violence. Mitron two days after his arrest made a complete confession, and denounced his accomplice Lasserre. The latter in vain tried to prove an alibi ; a carpenter's rule belonging to him was found near the body. The baron's wife and son, summoned by telegraph, arrived shortly afterwards at Toulouse."  HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OlNTMENT.—lnfluenza, Coughs, and Colds.—ln diseases of the throat and cheat, ever prevalent in our changeable climate, nothing so speedily relieves, or so certainly cures, as these inestimable remedies. These disorders are too often neglected at their commencement, or are injudiciously treated, and in either case disastrous consequences result. Whatever the condition of the patient, Holloway's remedies will restore, if recovery be possible; they will retard the alarming symptoms till the blood is purified, when nature gradually restoring strength and vital nervous power, will consummate the cure. By persevering in the use of Holloway's preparations, tone is conferred first on the stomach, and through it on the system generally. Thousands of persons have testified that by the use of these remedies alone they have been restored to health after every other means haa failed.