The Sun. — 1844-09-27 (London, England)

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN 11.10 ROCCO.—An avaricious butcher, who had enriched himself by selling " kohlia" (friend meat), was determined to increase his gains by the more simple method of receipts without expenditure. With this view he nightly inveigled into his house a woman of exceptionable character, who was immediately assassinated, cooked, and disposed of the following day as " kehlia." his wife who witnessed these nightly murders, apprehending a similar fate, wont to the Paella and denounced her husband. lie was soon judged and condemned ; a boiler full of water vas placed over a fierce fire, before the shop-door, which soon a cached - boiling temperature. The executioner then draggeri the crimanal to his own block, still stained with the tel,2d of his numerous victims, and, them into the cauldron, chopping off his hands,- LebreNY gtvo to the numerous bands and when boiled, they were of hungry dogs who had been assene::'ed for that purpose. In the same way his feet and legs Yvere, disposed of, until loss of blood terminated his life, ana with it. this appalling and barbarous justice. °"'TREATIES FOR THE APPREHENSION OF OFFENDERS —ln The Sun of Tuesday appeared the first case of an alleged French fraudulent bankrupt being committed in order to be conveyed to France for trial. The commitment took place tinder the Act 6th and 7th Victoria, c. 75, which came into operation on the 22d of August, 1843, on which day another Act was passed in respect to persons charged with offences committed in America, or who had absconded into that country: These acts were framed to carry out two conventions between the high contracting parties " for the apprehensionor certain offenders." There is a difference .n in the offences mentioned, and the point which arose eauldulthenet case reported was on the designationin effect to mean of a bankrupt," which the Lord Mayor held a England and France the felonious bankrupt under the English law. With regardcrimes specified for which to the treaty between fugitives can be apprehended consist of murder, attempt to murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy. After a commitment of two months, if the offender is not conveyed to the place where the alleged offence was committed to be tried, he is to be discharged. In the treaty between England and America the crimes mentioned are murder, assault with intent to murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either of the high contracting parties. After two months' confinement, if the party is not removed, he is to be discharged. Only two cases have occurred during these treaties, one in which the American Government claimed an alleged offender in a British colony, where he was refused because the parties had no evidence of the alleged offence, and the case which was brought. before the Lord la.yor Monday last. By the preamble in the two acts it is declared that parties are to be given up " only when the commission of the crime should be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or person so accused should be found would justify his apprehension and courr itmeut for trial, if the crime had been there committed." Copies of depositions may, however, be given iu evidence of the criAtinality of the person apprehended.