The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1874-09-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HER TWO CHILDREN.  re-betiLe.6irs. Every Murder is shocking and more or leas linitai • but all murders are not foul and unnatural. Thursaay's Tribt,uaoa gives a report of one appallingly as„ natund and to the lowest desgree foul. The theatre •sf tea The accused parties were a peasante T 1 and his deter Anna, aged respectively —.. and . were tried on th Plain, an ea.e charge of strangling their mether, the baby farmer and the owner in fee of a widow and • fertile piece of ground at Favrollee Th. d mil 4 niname in dthe rutther and slaughter cultivated the property, and Albin crime was the handet of kat. were two a good lump of money, but thrifty. reputed to i have saved was not eeteensed n the co timune though it vi on appear the moral etandard there is not high .Her . er cottage con ed three rooms. One was use.l so a store-room and Min a contemn room, and the third as dairY ther as ' "0 °raere bed. in this chamber. One • bedroom. ...akes( with a neighbouring farmer. The widow sr.. s Was eipied by the widow and her nurselings, when she took in infanta to he brought up by luind. and the other bytare Allan and Anna. They had slept together an wee I I d' ambitions of giving her daughter a goo. s once grew up their ther who roo" asked a witness, "she was a good neither, and thought of the future of her daughter. hbe worked It. and early to secure her a rich match. Besides, were not 'hi not like n' tuanepend d wheniion ey the'on a third bed. "Que voulvezd dAlbin and Anna brother and sister !" Whilst widow Plias W" brawling the dower, Albin came to the cow:N.l n that it wee high time for the old woman (she was 49) to take herself out of the way. Anna WWI charged with having shared his views, Here is what the acte ill'AreUll3ti"u "eve! -"On Juno !I, towanis one o'clock in the morning, Allsin Plais ...mato fetch two wo.nen, named Adelmar and eadorge, to lay out Ilia mother,. who, he told them, had just diet They were eurpreied at his haste to summon them. Their astaniahment wee heiehtened when they went to wrap the defunct in the winding-shoet. Anna threw herself on the corpse of her mother, crying out that the night clothe. must not Inc stirred, and that alone all things a finger meet not be laid on the handkerchief which was round the dead w 'nines-h. When the hectare( the mayeral,y came to sign the order for interteat of the arms, shoulders, and clavicle showed 111 per 11 that vedenee had been Prectieedtmenotos he on ai; the uid " Perceived marks of etratigulation. Conur Questioning the children of the widow Pia., they at tint told him that their mother had been for some time possessed with • suicidal mania. The night of her death she got up out of her bed, and railed to Albin to come and help her hang herself; and Albin, seeing she was bent osi sel(-destruction, gave her, the assistance she desired." Bert I should call attention to the wonderful belief cunning French peasants have in the credulity of evereene dee. I have often been ainazel at the extent to which this belief is pushed by villagers and country girls coming as servants to Paris. chTliblerenac) ithaddraelocuumg setmimeeivf.u.ribl there isat.asitee.sl:—t: Widow Pia* to enjoy more quickly than they would in the natural order of things her little fortune. usa jun. :1 she fell ill, and ceded for a doctor. In the evening Albin pounded • packs' of lucifer 11141,111-, in half a pint of brandy. Next morninz, when the hqu,r was saturated ~10irenc.tekele the ~siicskteru,..l%-!,;:smba,latkssa. it, laninnsd with phosphorus, Is,. took it to his ...other, and odd Isis here is t s " ac physic the doctor ordered you." Ile left it tapltrieehrerresel'thtthoeuit,' whistling, to wort in the isivailuse Anna gave half • glans of the potion to her mother. Venially and suffocating symptoms followed. In the night the widow had • syncope, and her daughter thinking her dead, went to fetch two 01.1 women for the laying out. But the appageatly defunct woman came to life again, and called tor • doctor. who was brought He visited her twice, and deposed that the children concealed her siymptoma from hint Albin had slept away for three days. On the lith he came to Imes the night at home. On the Bth, ageing that the poison did not work, he said he must have recourse toaeurer method, al on the blot set about preparing a cord, with a running knot, which he hid away 1111 a corner until the moment came which he judged faveaue able for the success of his enterprise. VLen the eliefech. clock struck 11 the brother and sister got out af bed. The former took the halter and, on tip-toe, eepeesehedi his smother, who, fatigued with the poises, and the. vomitings, had fallen into a 'loop sleep. Ito then slipped the loop round her nest and jerked her with the conk towards him. 11., sister, in confedee, said that ht, dragged the mother with the ((wee si a borne. The wretched woman jerked omit of her best and pulket with the halter a-nes the room to the hearth, where. albite kneeling on het chest, tightened with all his strength the slip-kn.g. Anna, according to her own account, etogl looking on. it was a bright night. The window shutters were not closed, and the moonbeams fell upon the murderer and murdered. When the . death struggle was Over, the girl Plats weet to her mother s side, lifted an anis, and let it fall, to aase if it fell dead meta :le flour. Finding that life WM ottani, the brother ads sister net about comealing the crime. They talicedi the corpee 1-u the bed, undid the halter, and, Neel • handkee-hief round Use neck to hide the sleeks a the cord. This done. Albin relieved his butdemeed hi-east by a lion-M.le Islastilieisty (the acts, desousation dime not say whst it was easelle), he and Alllll4 agreeing that to hide the trases of etrangulation they ouht to gek through the Wile( isit before day broke." lidos* the judges Allan mesh: a full meleesiou, but Anna titre:whim*. declared she bosh no Part in the munler. The Smother charged her with having Matigated lisa. %hen asked why she stoed by a passive spectator all her mother's death struggle, which lasted twenty minute., she defended herself on the gronel that the ibex .5, beted, that Albite had the hoe,.n, key in Li. picket, and that she wan afraid if she went to the window to give the alarm lie would strangle her tea The jury retiirned a verdict !omits... Albin of guilty, with extenuating cireunistames. Hç. was. weer:tingly sentence,' to hard laleiur for life. Ttre of Anna not being established to the eatisfactienot the. jury, she was acquitted.