Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-03-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MAIL.  An extraordinary charge of levying black-mail in a military preen came before a court eaartial it Peri.. The accused w, re OominandaprgaSattinni, Director, General of the Military Prisons in the Department of the Seine, a native of Corsica, and his D,Lputy, lilatge, a.a the case Muinli resin on a diary alleged- to have been kept by a prisoner ionised Daemon% which accidentally tell into the hands of a Dantean Lugfaint:, another prison oftiebsi, who, alter keeping it more than a 'ear, communicated its eon Jente to the nuthOritire. Dismiss° deserted from the army during the war, squandered mons y left ' hint bi hie fattier, and, st ter leading an adventurime life, IMP sentenced, br'l6, 3, to ten mouths' imprisonment for tbeit, followed by two year.' imprisontnent for desertion. It WIYI while .undsrgoing thin latter I punishment that he is alleged ro have kept She diary. ' 'According to this doewnent, after passing ten days in the Raison de Justice at the Rue du Oherche Midi Ps aeon, he was removed,st the ehaplein's intercesaion, to the Mahon WAITS', a departan nt nominally reserved for sentence, not exceeding nix mom be, but thls di.tinqitowo. hot strictly. observed. Ile thue secured, greater itidifigmice, Void,- on expressing his gratitude to Sotciant, woe invited, by the prospect of further favoure, to contribute to the purchase isf 'instruments for a .brams band. lie accordingly devoted $5Ol. to this purpose. atbiani, after this, invited him to dinner and of .rid to be his hanker that he might procure indulgences without exciting jealousy. One thousand seven hundred francs of the Isom deposited with the clerk on entering the prison were acirardingly withdrawn, S Odin& giving 1115 f to Mattis, to serve mean allowance or one franc a day to the primmer ; at tiebianiesuczertien were offered to dm chaplain tor twenty-foul' cloths for th• prison chapel ; while 151 If. went for a watch-chain for Wile. &Otani, and MY. for an ornamental poignard, whereby &Milani promised to obtain for Daneuse exemption Irvin beteg seat to the Algerian army, as usual with ri leased deserters. Osniplaining nr the franc a ti's, grudgingly tires him, Dances., dis played lour sfiit . notew secret, d on his person, which, he mid, he had intended to give &talent on his discharge. Ile was ase induced to send or 14001. due to him from his father's estate, itnd to order a piano for Mdlle. tiabtani, the result reins his ra moral to the inarinery and a server with the governor, who is said to have tundra Imndaoinep,flt out oh the extra dither ordered by the prisoner. The latter reopened corerepondence with his relatives to obtain money lions thern ; but though he inf d tints inc pher how it was expended, they .hold the goy, rnor incapable of staking it Ihr.airl•by la new arrival named .Jourvianisupplimteil Dane,* in Fabianist good grace.; but Darrow, on being ordi nryl back toi Ms cell, threatenid dutcloauh, the rer t teirgescaLpromsee. Shortly before hut endow txp•red, he wee charged with stealing a portion,' vontitit.ing 2,1101, stidently dm money he hod nrcretess ; and 'his liii ,to his re. Moist to spottgur prman, of wroch L,glnln was the governor, and where Fe Mei all his tolukencer• Ilere -he ended his diary VA in declaration of its veracity, adding that los did not regret spending the money iriminsuch MI lie lead profited by it. Dais expenditute amounted to 70Isti. In March, 1576, the riot of the •entence woe remitted, and hews. tent to Algeria, where he spiadtly incurred a sentence of penal servitude for life I peseitt,!eounterfro coin. Mole now In NM" eftiiliVlA, An for lotslaioe, he committed suicide haat ussiteth on learning 'hat fiablani and Shone we., to be coet-otarii,,lted. is said to have had a epite sigainsat he termer, a e•reuntstance foreshadowing an alit Ini.% 40 V-Peeeent the 4."ey tt. concocted under his thetation. The prisontrs were examined and Blame appeared vary dejected. They both dent, el I blur guilt.  CA