The Express. — 1865-01-02 (London, England)

HANG= BY HIE FATHILII. —The Court of Ailliiall of the Mamba has lust tried a man named Bouvet, a smell farmer, residing at Oonlonvray-Bois Beata. on • charge of having, on the 18th July last, murdered his own sea Auguste, sired 18. Boast's wife was also charged as an moomplioe in the crime. It appeared from the indictment and the deposition of the witnesses that about half- , past four in the morning of the 18th July the villagers were alarmed by cries of distrer in • field ear the prisoners' resideece, and on going to satiertain the cones they found i Baas and his wife standing near a beseh-tree, from which the dad body of their eon was anspeeded by the Lech from • cord wound three times round the trunk, and a strap round his legs also bound them to the tree. The edemas pretended that they had just found their ea in that state, and that be bad either been murdered or had committed meads. The police, having been informed of the fed, immediately instituted an inquiry as to the cause of death. The post-mortem examination "bowed that the deceased bed received dreadful in in the abdomee and lower part of the body, appareetly from kicks with wooden shoes. end the surgeons gave their opinion that the deoeseed had been strangled while in • elate of insensibility from the I kicks, and afterwards tied to the tree where be was foetid. j They also agreed that the crime bad bees committed about twenty-four hours before. Sapid°e fell on she father, who I bad on several occasions brutally gl.treated the poor lad, and they were confirmed by confeedoes of two of the prigoners' younger children, who said that their poor brotha . had been killed by their father. Both the father and mother were arrested. It was proved obi withers, that the 1 HARDWA ElL—Blarmammt, Ds o. 31.—Thew to sot deosesed w". °6 the morning Qin "glir boos moh business dose here this wash. In same tow iota a barn, making himself • pair of wooden shoes, that is moo:work mem mimed aa the meaudeetraue ea maw father was heard gamins; with him, and that the latter morning hot ea a rule it has been a ram' holiday, assn the barn and looked the door soon after. The lad was day eno more alive. Them vati no doubt that the murder sod in all probability there will act be malt doe* next week, as many of the maaufacturers will be engaged in was then committed, sod that the two pelican had removed the body during the following eight. hemmed it to taking stock ; there is, howevr,. a fair quantity of orders the tree, sod then mimed the alarm to turn aside suspicion is, "Mal" i° keep the wirks steadily reed s~atil the from themselves. It was clearly demonstrated that the °"11417 WI" ma's"' la thislastsrgaggig • bell/ lad could not have committed suicide by Imaging himself. amount • been doe* Durteg W whsle year ' The cord and strop which fastened the body to the tree trade bees "'"Yrd lager were also identified as the male snooper's property. As the *h.," they "1r ilure _, ._ll.llll Wall till a de°llWithia• /°°,' ' female prisoner had apparently only shied bar hsabsed in dim Is weasel'. with Nos maw' ressorlas the body, the jury acquitted hoe bet they forted . `""'"'s """' '" ton bus 6.1.17" "MO" the pia male prisoner guilty of legioties mortal wanda. thatch Plar. 'Moot go intention to kill% and the Goan accordingly