The Herald of Wales. — 1888-08-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING CRIME BY I THE MURDER OF A BIENNE. A. BOY. FRENCH LADY BY HER COACHMAN. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. The Doily Telegraph Paris correspondent, telegraphing on Sunday night, gives an account of a dreadful suicide and attempted murder in that city. Alphonse Sianzade, aged eight yearn, hated his brother Louis, aged six years, Co bitterly that he able a razor from a ehop, aharpened it over 91ght, took it with him to bed, and early fa the morning gashed his brother'a stomaoh with it. Louis' soreama attracted the mother, but before she could get atodetence Alphonse out his own throat, dying soon afterwards. Louis is in a precarietur condition. Alphonse had twine Wore tried to murder his brother, o.tee by driving a nail into hie head with a hammer.  The trial took place on Thursday, at the ameizes of the Seine et Oise, of Abel Marron, a lad of 19, who about two months ago murdered a lady named Madame Selman, in whose employment be was engaged as coachman. She was about 70 years old, and lived at Montlery, a email town about 20 miles due mouth of Paris, in a handle me house in the High-street, with a garden at the back. Although she was very wealthy, her fortune being estimated at £200,000, she kept hones on a very email scale, her only servanta being a charwoman and young Abel Charron, who acted both as coaChman and manservant. Tue last time she was seen was when she went maws on the 24th of May, and a °envie of hours after she had returned a young man appeared at he Town Hall looking very much excited. He said his mistress bad just been murdered, and he had seen the murderer jump dosed from the window- He ran after the man and overtook him, but the latter knocked him down and attempted to strangle him, and Abel Charron, for it was he, pointed to the bloody finger marks on hie neck. The Mayor, on proceding to Madame Saintin'e house, accompanied by gendarmes, found the body of that lady on the landing in front of her bedroom, in a pool of blood. Her skull was cleaved open as if with a hatchet. The bedroom drawers had been opened and emptied, but the murderer had not found what he was after. The bonds to bearer in the safe, and a sum of £2,000 in gold, wrapped up in • cloth in a cupboard, were untouched. Dr Guiraud, whe was at once stoat for, found the viotim stil alive. bile did not, however, recover speech, and the died at three o'clock in the morning, Au inquiry 'glowed that Abel Marron had sent £4 to a girl whose acquaintance be had made at the hospital, and who had suddenly departed. The officiate then searched his room and found three towels and a night Irmo stained with bleed. The lad, overpowered with evidence, confesed his guilt. His crime had been carefully premeditated. Armed with a hatchet, he awaited in her dressing room the return of his mistress. As she was going to bed, he felled her to the ground. He had stolen her keys the night before, and he opened her drawers and took all the gold he could find, but he was afraid of taking the bank-notes lest their numbere might be known. In reply to the judge's questtons, he exeleimed, "Do what you like with me !" W hot eeutenoe of death was passed, he snivelled ' It has berved me right."