The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-10-11 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

OTOT PARIS. —A double Crime of a very dreadful character was committedlon Sonday in Paris. A liberated conv:ct, named lhoignon, 32 years of age, resid ig et llercy called on his sister, Madame Joffeux, 23 years old, living 41 the Rue de Soulages, and some words hav:ng arisen beoveen them, he;clrew a revolver from his pocket and shot her through the head, and then took to flight. ' The poor woman expi,ed in s few minutes without hav'ng been able to give any account of what had passed The police at once sta. ed search of the murderer, but were unsuccessful. About half-past five 4n the evening, when the people were reter,ing from the races, and the Avenue de l'lmperatice wa., crowded .6.11 cart iages and pedeAriens the repo.t of a pistol was heard and a body seen to fall mm the top of the fortifications into the ditch below. The guardians of the Bois de Boulogne hastened to ,e spot, where they found a young man, still alive, but covered with blood. lie hedju.utstrongth to say that he had committed suicide by firing a shot from a revolver into his body. His voice failed before he could mention his name. He was conveyed in a cab to the police station in the Avenue de la Grande Armee. where he arrived qui:e insensible, and apparently at the poi it of death. Ssimewhat later he was discovered to be the man Moignon, who had that morning killed his sister. The weapon hp used could not be found.  LONDON Pavia Dasts.—The "London cave." recently mentioned in the Times as existing in the Seven Dials district are equalled by the cases of overcrowding brought to light by Dr. Tripe, the medical officer of health, in the Hackney district, near to Bethnal Green. Dr. Tripe says all these cases, 31, were found out by 4nspection, and ,one from complaint. He enumerates the follow:ng cases : At Sheep-lane the father, mother, a son of 17, a daughter of 15, a boy of 8 years, and an infant lived and slept in a small room containing only 925 cable feet of air, end therefore not large enough for two adults and one child. In Goringstreet a man wee found living with a widow and her two children in an extremely small room, contain,ng only 562 cubic feet of air. In a small room, having a cubical capacity of 6041 t., were discovered the father, mother, two girls of 12 and 11 years, and also two young children, so that there was only 100 cubic feet of air for each. In Duncan-street there were three families, consisting of eighteen persons, living and sleeping in four rooms, the large room containing only 1,014, and the smallest 757 cubic feet of air. At Duncansquare, in four rooms—the largest of which had a cubical capacity of 1,0201 t., and the smallest 763 ft. —there were four families, one of which, consisting of the mother, a son of 21 years, a daughter of It. and two younger children, living in a single room. In another house in Duncan-square, the father, mother, and six children under 12 inhabited one small room, containing 800 cubit feet of air. In Sheep-lane, too, the mother and father slept in one room, and a son of 20 years old, a daughter of 18, another of 16, and a lad of 14, slept in another small room. In Farm-place,Sottage-lane, there were several instances of. families residing in rooms with but little more than 100 cubic feet of air for 1 each person. In Shacklewell-row, the father, a son of 21, another of 19, and a grown-up daughter lived and slept in a room the cubic contents of which was only 904 ft. In a room having a capacity I of 766 ft., situated in Taylor's Buildings, a man 1 and his wife, two children under ten, and a woman who was not related to either, were found living 1 and sleeping. In a house in Warburton-road, the father, mother, a son of 19. and a daughter of 16, lived and slept in a room holding only 990 ft. of air. "All these show the nezessity for the strict supervision exercised in this district upon the dwellings of the poor, and for regular house to house inspection, by which alone cages such as these can be found out, and the overcrowding abated. In two cases it was necessary to take out summonses aga;net the offenders before the overcrowding could be removed; but in all others it was promptly abated. There is one point worth notice, and that is, that nearly all the bad cases of overcrowding occur in the streets and places situated to the south of London Fields, and adjoining Bethnal Green parish."—Times.