The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-03-31 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CONTINENT. Her Majesty arrived at Portsmouth shortlykf, seven o'clock on Alonday night. The visit was it every respect strictly a private one. No one lea, allowed in the dockyard, and the order prohibinat persopa being present was strictly enforced. Admiral Sir George Elliottand General Sir Irlassyry uigs libyle, with their staffs, were present. A tomponiry platform had been erected at the euct of the railway jetty. On this her Majesty alighted, and proewakd under a covered way to the Victoria and Albert, lying alongside the jetty. The Royal yachfleft the harbour on Tuesday morning about two o'clocb, for Cherbourg.  REVOLTING DOUBLE Mt RI)17.1: lIY  Tl. 6 nem rt oaf Annie' of the Sarthe has just di& posed Of a case of double murder committed In , lierl thirteen years of age, under the most revolting 'circumstances. The culprit was employed as a bet. rant at the house of an honest countryman and le wife named Lerat, in the commune of Luehe-Pringe, and part of her work was to look after two ferne, children, flenriette, twenty • months, and it, threp years and a half olu. On August 2ii lost, ,n Use return of the mother from her daily Work 0 ga fields, she foundher infant a corpse, and, fanner, , that death resulted from asphyxia. The medieg Mali could throw' no light on the circumstance The following month the other child WAS discovered dead under similar conditions, and on that occaene suspicion lighted on the servant girl Augustin, Ourrard, who was accbrdingly arrested and t 0,,. 'eyed to prison. There she confessed that she lad in cold blood strangle& the two little creature& Neither in custody nor before the Awoke Court da she betray the slightest symptom of remorse for hee double crime. Her answers to the Presidimt nen make the reader shadder.—Tlao President : Did yot like the children ? The girl Ouvrard: They always annoyed me.—Presideet : What took place on tie Monlanytin,August ?,Onyrard lienriette (the Minna was in her cradle. I wanted te put on her she, and she would not let me. That angered coo, I placed a handkerchief in her mouth and buried her fee, in the pillow.—Presiiient : Did the del struggle? Ouvrard : She only bitiked; she was Pft dead.—President Had you long had the intention to kill her ? Ouyrard: For three days.—Prenident: And thereason you did not kilt hear bergpe ass thU you had not an opportunity? 'Ouvrard: Yes sir. —President: On the day of your second crime, where twos Marie t Ouyrard: In the stable. I killed her in the same way. I put a handkerchief in her mouth and pressed upon her. She struggled with her hands and legs, but I held hard until the ceased—President: How did the idea of the um der of these children come into your head? No a. swer.---Haye you often amused yourself by kill* birds ? Ouvrard: Yes, with my brother.—President How did you kill them ? Oavrard: By putting the heads in water.—A discussion then took pie amongst the medical men este whether the prisons was of sound mind, but no symptom of inseruty could be discovered. The doctors were all opinion that, while the girl ought not to be treatit considering her years, as a grovrn-up pens, she could not be altogether acquitted of rename bility. The Court sentenced her to be impritional until ehe hagreacced the age of tvdenty years.