The Sun. — 1846-12-05 (London, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.  PARIS.—We have to record another of those too frequent cases of murder, followed by the suicide of the perpetrator. Rose Lamurie, the wife of a horsebreaker at Chaillot, about twenty-five years Rf age, had lived separate from her husband for about two years with their mutual consent, and has since lived in adultery, with a coachman at Vaugirard, named Leal. Leal, however, was jealous and brutal, and viol6it quarrels repeatedly arose between them. On Thursday night Leal returned. home drunk, and the neighbours above their apartment soon afterwards heard the usual sounds of high dispute, but were so accustomed to them that .they did not interfere. At four o'clock on Friday morning, Rose came down stairs and went out, telling the portress that she should never return. The whole of Friday passed without her re appearance, nor was Leal seen to leave his lodgings. On Saturday morning .the commissary of police was informed of the mysterious circumstances, and had the door of the apartment forced open. Leal was found dead on the floor, with his skull fractured, and other wounds in different parts of his body, inflicted with a crow-bar. The bottom of 'the door had been carefully stopped so as to prevent his blood from flowing out beneath it on to the staircase. On endeavouring to trace Rose Lamurie, whose guilt could not be doubted, it was ascertained that about eight on Friday morning she went to her husband, whom, notwithstanding their separation, she frequently visited, and took her breakfast with him. During the meal she talked of her miserable condition and her disgust of life, and of the most easy means of self-destruction, expressing her opinion that it was by strangulation. He replied that he could not tell, for he had never tried any one of them. On leaving her house, Rose Lamurie went to Montmartre, where one of her sisters lives, but did not see her, going instead to one of her neighbours and saying that she would be absent several days, as she was obliged to travel forty leagues from Paris to get some money, requested her to take charge of a little favourite dog. In the evening of the same day Rose's sister went into her friend's lodgings, saw the little dog, and received an account of what had passed on its being left. Astonished at Rose's not calling upon her, and suspicious that all was not right, she went to their father and mother at Vaugirard, where she arrived at the moment the murder of Leal was discovered. As Rose could nowhere be heard of, her father and sister went to the Morgue, and there they found her lifeless corpse, brought in under the name of Louise Rousseau, which she had assumed on taking a small room in the Rue du Rocher, where she had put an end to her life by suffocation from the fumes of charcoal. She had left a note taking leave of her family, asking pardon of her landlord for the trouble she would give him, and confessing that she had murdered Leal, but protesting that it was done unpremeditatedly in the madness of passion, excited by his brutal treatment of her. After having lighted the brazier of charcoal, she hung herself on the rod which supported the curtains of her bed, in order to render assurance doubly sure.—Galignani.