The Daily Times. — 1860-04-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND BURIAL.  HORRIBLE MURDER, MUTILATION,  The Court of Assizes of the Bas-Rhin has just tried a married woman, named Haumesser, of Elsenheim, for the murder of her daughter. This woman, who possessed a detestable reputation in the village from her impiety and obscenity of her language, and from the violence of her character, took an intense antipathy to one of her two daughters, Jeannette, aged twenty-one years, and frequently ill-treated her in the most shameful way, and often threatened to murder her. On the 2nd of December last, the poor young female, who was at home with her mother, was heard by the neighbours to cry loudly for help from an up-stairs room, and the neighbours afterwards heard a noise similar to that which would have been occasioned by beating the head of a person against a wall. One of the neighbours sent her son, a boy of 13, to threaten the woman, that if she did not cease ill-treating her daughter, she would send for the police; but the woman in a furious rage turned the boy out of the house, and fastened the door. He, however, looked through thekeyhole, and saw her take up a large knife and rush on her daughter.; at the same moment he heard the latter cry " Holy Virgin ! protect me !" and then he heard a strange noise, which he compared to that which would have been caused by a calf having its throat cut. All at once the noise ceased, but the woman was heard for some time moving to and fro in her house, as if busily engaged in some unusual operation; and after a while she was seen to go into the yard to wash some articles stained with blood. The neighbours, after some hesitation, sent for her husband, who was at work in the village ; and the woman in answer to his inquiries as to where Jeannette was said that she had had to correct her for some fault, and that she had gone away, but would no doubt Boon return. .The man was satisfied, and observing nothing unusual in the house returned to his work. Two days, however, passed away, and nothing was seen of the girl. The gendarmes were then informed by the neighbours' of what had taken place, and they went to the woman's house to arrest her; but .having heard bat she had been denounced, she took to flight across-the fields. She was, however,.parsued, and taken into custody. About the time of her capture a most horrible discovery was made. A dog turned up from a hole. near a windmill at some dist-met from the village some fragments o! flesh, and on the hole. being examined there were; horrible to relate, found in it breasts, part of a trunk, the legs, and the intestines of a young female, also the fragments of a skull—the feet and hands had disappeared, probably from having been devoured by wild animals. The woman, hearing of this discovery, related with revolting coolness that the remains in question Were those of her daughter, Whom she had .thurdered and dismembered; and she detailed With great minuteness the horrible operations. Among other things she stated that after the murder she had smashed the skull of her daughter to extract the brain, and had burned 1 the brain in the fire. The jury declared her guilty: and the Court condemned her to death.  (Lord Palmerston returned to town on Wednesday from Windsor Castle, and in the evening left for Broadlauds,. for the holidays. The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Western College, at Plymouth, took place on Wednesday, amidst much rejoicing. The college was established in 1752.