The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1867-04-23 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BRIAII•X NT • WIDOW.— Brio ',Wes the tareemestaweee of a shocking warder recently perpetrated jealoe”, erioshial bei a widow, named sad the victim • yoong paned Adolphe with whom oho biat married ow an Improper hi= for a cooold•rable UM& Relorriai to the Paine lAspilor della or Ma), the writer protases his narrative bp Wang oloolbor seam are set predediaed. It would ho Laipoodlile to lad owe whioli wood mors dismally with the 0611111 of whist' iodide has sow rweesial the loadoole. It woe three* wwlew imams 1"• tad afteelupowk with* oho kept epee kg alwoholia th• widow Oilmen wee &mod to sod ea ewer Wilda hid mover hen eery in Wes while low lialbeed wee Aye ohs wetTltlitia. with BolteeepoolOmb ralml Inek.  men, maid to have hese very haudeo, and who was loved by another woman se well as by eeee oesseit. When her hu•band died she had passed her fortieth Imr, and she berme aware that the young Belgian was dary repenting himself from her more and more. Wbat put the crown on the jealously of the widow was the belief that her Inver wan thinking of mar.vioe. Front that moment she conceived the design of her rasilrengeanoe. It was proved that on the 14th A tiolphe spent the night with the widow, and was not afterward. seen. After some days, peeing that neither the widow eercuiel nor belay,r reappeared, the porter formed wen* nine respicions. He broke into the room, and the S,.t °hive whieh met his Mew we. the bode of the 110110 f 10•12 covered only by Ma ehirt, and fathom] into • Mooping potter. De., eh. 1.4 no, the aide of which his head was leaning. He had died of suffocation, and in the room wee atilt found three pans fell of the allhee of eharonel. The first exclamation of the widow "Quit. right, 1 have rereesed myself ; he dinned his fate. It was he who mused roe ID deeert my elsild." The truth was that the moieties of het passion had stilisrl maternal love, and that :the had Preferred awning her child to, Ovine sop her loner. 'laving been brought hefore the eourt on her own conies:sloe, the widow Chnewil loudly denied the ch•ree: and protruded that the vane man mast have committed nieide in her slasewe. There is no ...mon to doeht that after leaving the burning charcoal to do its fatal work, she mast haws re-entered the room and lain quietly on the bed beside which lay the deed litel• of lover. For the two next tights., a10r,0.", she mei' han slept near the corpee. Rbe way interrogated an follows :—" Too bad connived for him who afterwards hemline year victim • mad end uncontrollable passion : when you perceived It, indifference you wished to bold him by throat.. On one ocewrion he found • knife antler roar pillow and said to his fellow workmen, "Chat woman is seehte of killing Enryone heard your threats of evermore. Ifn knew that he had soother mistrese" The widow flireeeil went, and said nothing. "It is said that OW the death of your lover you west ,o the sentelory, that you gave yourwlif op to despair. and that you tore the kneed with your nails in order that you Micht MI the body &Via." .0 r shall always mint him." the priamier answered. "You Preteaded tint be ememitted suicide ; that is most unlikely, as he was a young man of a ray and buoyant disposition. He loved his life, only he meet h•ve leen wearied of your persecution." The widow nersiMed in cleaving that she was guilty. The jury of the Seine in liming her guilty, set adde the shame of premeditation, and allowed extenuating eirommeteame. She was sentenced to ten yearn' imnrisnement.