Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-10-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TRAGEDIES IN FRANCE.  A telegram from Paris reports that on Thursday morning some workmen perceived a man apparently asleep in a quarry near Auteuil. On attempting to awaken him they discovered that he had a deep wound in the breast. The body was conveyed to the hospital. In the deceased's pocket was found a card, giving his name, and shewing him to be aged 50. Upon investigation traces of blood were found about 100:yards from the quarry,a,nd following these up .the detectives came to the garden of a gentleman named Chevalier. On being interrogated on the subject he professed entire ignorance of the matter. A search of the house, however, led to the discovery of a sword-cane and dagger both stained with blood. "With these weapons before you," asked the commissary, "do you still deny all knowledge of the affair?" "Certainly," was the reply. "Very well; but I must arrest you," said the Commissary. It is supposQ6l that the man had entered M. Chevalier's garden with the object of stealing apples, and that the proprietor struck him without intending to take his life. He, however, refuses to answer any questions, and still professes:entire ignorance of the author of the crime. Notwithstanding the most careful "search Surgeon Major Breton, the murderer of the Courbevoie dentist Genisset, has not yet been found. A number of police have been told off for the special duty of capturing the murderer, some being posted round the house and others at the railway stations from which, as is thought likely, he may try to leave the city. The wife of the victim is to be prosecuted as an accomplice, as it has been proved by some neighbours who were witnesses of the tragedy that she stood watching on the opposite side of the road, and that they afterwards fled together. The Assize Court of the Indre et Loire has condamned a man named Londais to death for a double mutder. He had killed two old persons named Dethonnias, aged respectively 73 and 71 years, who lived in Taxuigny. The aged couple were brutally murdered, the woman's head being cut off, and much of the property in the house stolen. After a long search the assassin, who is a young•man, was arrested in Paris. He was then in possession of 4,000 fr. which he said he had stolen in 1881 from an egg merchant. This statement, however, was proved to be false, and finally Londats confessed to the crime.  It is stated that it has now been definitely decided that the Duke of Connaught will next spring relinquish the command of the Portsmouth District in older to succeed Sir Frederick Roberts as Commander-in-Chief in India. The County Council Times says that Mr. Yardell, the loader of the Moderate party, will be proposed for the chairmanship of the London County Council if Sir John Lubbock adheres to his determination to resign this month, and that his nomination will be supported by prominent Progressists. A resolution will also be made to reduce the deputy-chairman's salary by £5OO a year. Mr. G. P. Mills, of London, the cyclist, arrived at John O'Groats at a quarter past 4 on Friday morning, having accomplished the journey from Land's End in 4 days 4 hours and 15 minutes, beating his former record by over 21 hours. Mr. Mills, who started from Land's End at midnight on Sunday, on a pneumatic safety bicycle, was considerably handicapped by rain and the heavy state of the roads.  . An attempt at suicide under peculiar circum• stances has been made in Paris by M. Lucien Cressonnois, a young playwright. He had invited 10 of his friends to dine with him at a café at the corner of the Rue de Ponthieu. About 8 e'clock, in the presence of his guests, he drew a revolver from his pocket, and shot himself in the side. His distressed friends conveyed him to his residence. and a surgeon was at once summoned.  p