The Sun. — 1862-06-19 (London, England)

CRIME IN FRANCE..--A murder and suicide have just been committed at Mosnay (Indre). A forest keeper named Poitrinaud had frequently occasion to complain of the encroachments of a small farmer named Duds, who frequently drove cattle on to the property under the keeper's care. This had given rise to such a feeling of hatred on the pas t of Duris that Poitrinaud had at length become alarmed, and on the morning of the murder had expressed a fear that Purls might do him some harm. Dulls concealed himself, armed with a gun, behind a hedge by which ho knew Poi.. trinaud must pass. The latter arrived shortly after, and, on passing before the spot where his enemy was concealed, paused to light bis pipe, when Duris fired, and the ball passed through his left cheek and brain. Thais then rushed forward and battered the head of the lifeless body with the barrel of his gun until it had bent in his land ; he then used the butt end until it broke, and afterwards employed his heavy wooden shoe for the same purpose. His rage 0" not yet exhausted, as he set fire to the clothes of the nittr;t: dered man, which burnt until the flame reached the keete„ii_ powder-flask, which exploded. Duris then picked 01:.d7he trinaud's gun, and was about to fly, when voice of a young man calling from a neighb:laiir: ridngplacing The murderer was then seized with a panic, ed the trigger the muzzle of the gun to his own heart, re_ P yssoitrintrud, whe with his foot, killing himself on the spot. #h of whom are in flock nofame of Mr. was a widower, has left two children, 130 . . he4wood. a soldier, and was In business. Duris had formerly bees receipt of a pension of 200 f. a year' ~,0. Yesterde t GREAT SALE OF SoUTSDOW-PArYe- brhede remainder of the renowned Babraham Southdown sheep, which deserved l h -'t ce e ir y, was Jonas Webb with such . . exposed to ,_r the joint direction of Mr. Straffordpublic competition undo ~_..as. There was and Mr. J. Carter "u almost all a Very large attendance of breedersfrom parts of England, as _ . b. maY be regardedas the of iOual home of the Sussex, wave .Powerfully repree 4 , • Southdown, being _ , 1:1 eel, while buyers Ise present from France, liermany, Sweden, were also Present lots disposed - • , Spain, and America.of ,omprused 148 rams and 289 ewes, and the former realised altogether £2,711 25., and the latter £2,209 65., making the total proceeds of the day £5,720 Be. Last year, when the first port;on of the flock was disposed of, 967 animals realised £10,096 63. 6d., so that this great flock, which is now scattered throughout England,Europe, has altogether produced to Mr. Webb the satisfactory suns of £16,646 14s. Gd. The highest priced ram yesterday was taken by Sir T. B. Laniard, but most of the ewes which provoked any competition ' were purchased for exportation to Spain and Germany, while a few lots were takeanr _for America. At the close of the sale, whitnredch In"' world, hearty as an important event in the agrioul— fanarlyor and cheers were given for Mr. Webb and his been' put to the genial generalregret was expressed that a period has a have extended over genial hospitalities of Babraham which no loss than 36 consecutive Yew'