Northern Times. — 1857-07-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PRENCH PARRICIDE.—The Court of Assizes of the soiret, on Saturday, tried a man named Lachau, of Olivet, aor the 'murder of his father. In April last the prisoner's other di ant\ died, and the man ac-used his father of having 013 a. „,,Tri_,lted a certain portion of her property to which he a a-:re" himself to be entitled, but the old man refused to hat that On the 13th of May he said to some persons was the last day he had to live, for he meant to ifutrderihis father, and then cJinmit suicide. Some hours Inns", 'AI Lachau, who was a mason by trade, returned Cul in his cart, and as he, with the assistance of his. 1h g4ter, was unharnessing the horse, the prisoner came "P and began abusing him for having sold some planks, :u..ti I .li he claimed as his property. The old man retorted glily and either struck his son or seized him by the 'altar, on which the prisoner, dragging him into a shed ,sii,ere there was a carpenter's axe, seized the axe, and, we it above his head as if to strike, called on him to :,`"., up the property he claimed. The old man refused, buii4t the prisoner then struck at him with all his might,. „.atilloaled daughter seized his arm, and he missed his blow _, him !Dan took to flight, and the prisoner pursuing, parmtcK three times with his axe ; one blow sliced off thres°l the face, and the other two were so grave that in Thee_ hours the old man died, without speaking a word. am !oull went to his room, which was in his fathea ho"'se, 0441. tell? Proceeded to place his papers and acri-junis in was s engaged when the.t offlejers of justice rrs,te 1,9 sentence lita• Tile jury declared gity, and the court fern, d him to death—the extCue ..on' to take place in the hared prescribed by law f 1-ated to the his bead covered scaffoll, theca with 1 -(n 'parricides, namely, to walk with a shirt over his clothes and i, rreEss,,, A, o ack crape. 1 accide '• scleasar.—We have to rectrd a distresehoursnt, ~.. .be f„ ..nich occurred on Thursday morning, a few create() gee our time of publication, and which has a W. a,D feeling of sorrow among the community in a as and hen one of eytovvn. It is the death, by drowning, of Waters, shiAlexander our most respected townsmen—Mr. the south head most and commission agent. Between salmon fiche Wick Bay and tho Old Man of Wick, the. o'cicck this na4 At nine have one of their nets stationed. their boat rocks in the vici wh:nning they were proceeding towards it in they observed some clothes lying upon . the Was drawn to thr:ltT of the Pow. The boatmen's attention time in the vielnitycirl!lunastance that no person was at the proceeded to their netat, swilissred". -an-hour. At the nothing wrong, they ~,a,t. ~..a they were engaged about their return to the a PITY of that time, they set out on Still observed 1 - ay, but as, on repassing the Paw, they one near at v t'''',3 clothes untouched, and failing to see any occurred ',and, they feared some accident might have nearir.o, Asulad accordingly rowed towards the spot. On r4Pli ti, ,in creek, they discovered the body of a full-sized the borate.' a on the surface, with the face downwards, and the clotheandilega depending under water. On examining kens„ratoi they discovered by the marks on the linen and Waters. "Lill the pockets, that it was the body of Mr. of bathing at Wafers, it would appear, was in the habit left the Ira :the spot at which he met is death, and had -Vire believe\ : it i at, about half-past eight for that purpose. death was .8 the opinion that the immediate cause of immersion .aPaplexy ,lon in tb ,p o y r bats' hastened by the sudden the le Q' Groat hurnal, •