A Sensational Trial

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 96, 23 January 1886, Page 3

A Sensational Trial

■ ■. - • ■ ■♦ ■ . <A London correspondent of the "Mail and Express" cables as follows : A great sensation has been caused by a peculiar murder tiial ;int France, and it is feared that troiibh^may arise ftomthe state of popuhw feeling ' A farmer named Boudouin was killed while asleep ia bed. His wife #as : • " lying hy his side; yet declared that she did not hear the noise of the firearms notwithstanding that the , man was flhot. ; His wife asserted i£hat the ; first intimation she had of his murder was the fmokefrom the weapon used by the r assassin, and the blood ' Iwhich flowed from the ' wound made by the t>uilet. The would-dfd not receive much credence,.^ven by those disposed m the wemanVfayour, but suspicion fell ion 1 a 1 young vagabond 'named Braguel, whoiad b9en employed on the firm, but: hivd been* discharged. The fellow on being arrested not tfnly, confessed to haying' comniittdd the. crinxe^ but asserted that he had been instigated by Mme. Boudouin to kill .her husband, and nad been paiil by her for doing the deed. The wife's reason; Braguel declared, was her rage at his constant flirtations wi^h/. other women. .The murderer Betid .thaV^the. w.oman^ admitted him by a -widow 'at mght, and t^hen he had epte^ed . ihe, ropm . yeturned , im, r ■ mediafeiy/to Itied. hud lay dbwn beside Ker< hiislia^^w^^as fas^aßh3e,p. BKiguel 1 was* 'arttGs'wifli a r gun,;, '; wfiieh he reßtea^aCTOgß*'th^^padV'limbSj in orfex to geti^eciep.^im -fend ,so;shot the ia^n^ ni T«e7cpurikrbom > was the scene pf .a.very reaJfistiiJiand sensational ©ffeciau;|b!e. course of the trial. ; The ju4g© had the : blood-stained bed brought into cdujrtr and compelled the prisoners, the' 1 murderer and the wife, to-assume the identical positions, which fjjey- pcoupiedC at "the jndment , of the murder., as. described by IBraguel J^ot^thstaiifling' ■ th« overwhelming evidenice' against this :, woman j tjhte jury acquitted ■, h^r *pf .any * complicity, and Braguel 1 found guilty apd condemi»e4'to imprisonment for life.

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