Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-03-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TRIAL FOR MURDER IN FRANCE.  Immense interest is taken in the trial for murder going on in Paris. Among many ladies attracted by curiosity was the Princess Hohenlohe, who with difficulty got a place. The prisoner, whose name is Godefroy, of humble origin, but who became wealthy, lived in a handsome villa at Neuilly and kept his carriage and pair, but latterly was in difficulties, isaccused of having sb ot in his own house a retired grocer, of Boissons, named Courtefois, who had been cajoled into placing 50,000 francs in a rotten concern of a manure manufactory at Arcueil, and who called with much importunity to insist on the restitution of his money. The prisoner's story is that the deceased, after an altercation, drew a pistol and shot himself, and this was at first believed, for Godefroy was not arrested till a week after the occurrence. The prosecution now alleges, and produces scientific evidence to prove, that the wounds if selfinflicted must have produced an appearance of powder on the skin, which was net found, and moreover many experiments on the skins of animals were made to show that the pistol must have been fired at deceased from a greater distance than the utmost possible outstretched point of his own hand. The possession of the pistol by the prisoner cannot be proved, but on the other hand he is pressed with the fact that cartridges precisely fitting it were found in his wife's bedroom. He habitually carried firearms, and the deceased a s n nier known to use any. The indictment ta customary in France, is an exciting romance and reproaches the prisoner with haying married a young girl for the sole purpose 4 carrying on an intrigue with her mother, and other acts of immorality, from which the interrogating judge concludes that he must necessarily be guilty of murder.  A Paris correspondent, writing on Sunday, says: Godefroy has been found guilty of the manslaughter of Courtefois, with extenuating circumstances, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, The prose. cution long hesitated whether to indict him for murder, but ultimately thought the circumstances excluded premeditation. The verdict was not delivered until one in the morning, until which hour, notwithstanding the pouring rain, a criwd eager to know the result besieged the doors of the Palate de Justice. K. Nicolet, the prisoner's counsel, one of the most eminent advocates of Paris, addressed the jury for seven hours, impressively and ingeniously, urging all the points calculated to throw doubt on Godefroy's guilt. Among these were the untrustworthy evidence of the professional medical experts, the want of sufficient motive, and the probability which the Procurator-General held to be infinitely improbable, that Courtefois, a narrow-minded man, half distracted at the loss of his money, committed suicide in Godsf roy's presence, that his family might be revenged on him. Public opinion generally ratifies the verdict, but there is the most unanimous movement I ever remember against the presiding judge for assuming all along the prisoner's guilt, and carrying desolation into a fami y by disclosing scandalous matter utterly irrelevant to the issue.  BRAGG'S VEGETABLE CHARCOAL is one of the best known preventatives against all kinds of infectious diseases; It absorbs all impuritieo in the stomach and bowels, thereby Imparting a vigorous and healthy tone to She whole system. Sold by all chemists in bottles, Es., fa., and 6 each. Sole Manufaetarer., J. L. Banos, 14, Wig, more•street Cavendish-square, W.