The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-09-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ANOTHER FRENCH POISONING CASE.  A great or r of poisoning. such as has now become alinoat we. kly reading in the French vaiiers, orcuied the Assize Court of Le Mane, the eaiiital of L• Sari he, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (writes a correepondent). The ti own Mail crowded with visitors, and a strong bevy of ',porters had gone down font Paris. the crimes were alleged to have been committed upwards of fur years ago; the standing conthct of medical evidence about traces of arsenic was to course the more kern in account if the lapse of time ; and the presence of DI. L iithaud as counsel for one of the prisoners was a guarantee that the trial would be as dramatic as possible According to the indictment. M. Janvier, the landlord of the Hotel cl, s Trios of Bouloire, in the Sarthe, who died on Feb. 5, 1865. was poisoned by his wife. Augustine (nee Montarou), and hilt servant. Dapin, was not only an accomplice in, but the instigator id the deed. Suspicions id foul play prevailed in the neighbourhood at the time, hut did not @et the public prosecutor in motion. It was only towards idie end if 11.14i8, after the widow Tanvier bad teen married a seam.) time to M. Miami.' who still keeps the Hotel des Trois rods, that anonymous letters and handbills. supplied to have hero cimulated by Anne Dupin, led to her arrest and that of the other  Arnie  prisoner. Auenetine l'ffontarou was married to Jsnvier when only 17, awailat her own 'doh, and under Is threat from her parents that if she would not take him she shonl.l be sent to • convent. Although they lived toge her as tavern keepers for fifteen yeara and without any flagrant quarrel., this origin of their marriage, pursuant to the French practice of rejecting no circumstance as too trivial to furnish a motive, is pressed against her as • reason why she was likely to p ,ieon him. He drove the mail cart between Bouloire and Conterr6. and evidence is brought forward to show that durtug the hours of his daily absence she was friquently unaithf uL Of the servant Anne Thipin, the indictment, by way of showing the it priori probability of her being a murderess, recondite that in 1846 her mother's blob did was c .uncied .4 theft, and that he had • enter who committed suicide in 11453 on account ot an aucuostion that she had poisoned souaebody with phosphorus. This prisoner hereelf was a natural child, and Ate has had two natural children. Her profession was that of a baby-fanner, and the astounding statement is made that i the course of her time, althongli now only forty. seen n years of age, she has hod eigh,y-one children to nurse hum Pans, of whom not half went bock alive. A cording to • Loofewion made betore the Judge of Inotraccion by the woman Augustine, but which she retracted in court, it was Anne Dupin who, one day atter she had been ill-used by her husband put it into her head to tile« him off by kAson. Anne Dupin g..t some arsenic from a farrier s wife; but for fear that his trio sudden drab should excite suspicion, recommended that he enould first be &wed with carobs Wee nowder sprinkled on his food to make Inio ill. This being accompliohed, and a doctor called in. Dupin to..k an opportunity to substitute arsenic for his magnesia. The doctor fancied that he died of  Olee;  cholera. In Sept., 1865, Madame Montarou, the mother of Augustine. was enticed to CI .me to 11,,,,1nire, and was carried if by amen c adminis'ered by !lupin. A few weeks later, one of her illegitimate children, Leopold Unpin, a boy of fifteen. WWI put out of the way b, his mother for fear of his making revelations. It is charged that he was pinioned with lucifer matches. The indictment further alleges that after the death of Janvier, Anne Dupn installed herself in the Hotel des Trois Rois, where she sc•ed mire like the inistresa than a servant ; that she availed herself of the terrible setret of which she was in posseission LO extract large sums of money from Augustine Mentareu ; and that whin, after tan second marriage of the latter in June, 1867, Miard turned her out of the house on account of her had character, she wrote threatening letters and posted aminv1111•114 placards. which led to the exhumation of the three bodies, and the discovery of poienn in the remains. In court the prisoner Lupin strenuously denied everything. M. Lachaud was counsel for the other woman. The verdict was given on Sunday evening. The woman Lupin was condemned to hard Iranian- fee life. and Mine. &Hard to twenty years of the mane punish