A Sensational Trial.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1607, 13 January 1886, Page 2

A Sensational Trial.

RES%LT OF A CASE IN FBANCE.

A lidtidon correspondent of the Mail and Etipfetii cabled is fallows :— A great serisatidii shas beSh caused by a peculiar iriiircteV trial m France, and it is feared that trduble may arise from the state of popular feeling. A farmer named Boudouin was killed while asleep m bed. His wife was lying by his side, yet declared tbat she did not hear the noise pjL the firearms,,, notwithstanding that thY. .»— man was shot. His wife asserted thai the first intimation, she had of his murder' was the smoke from the weapon used by the 1 assassin; "and the blood which-'flfcmed' *~v - from the wound made by the buHat- , The Btory did not receive much oredencft,* \ even by those disposal m the woman's favour, but suspicion fell on * young: vagabond named Bragiu-l, whe had bee* employed on the farm, but-had been diir <■ ' charged. The fellow on being arrested not only confessed to having committed the crime, but asserted that he'had been instigated by Mme. Boudouin to kill hem husband, and, hid been paid by her fofc doing the deed, /The*- wife's reason^ ' Braguel declared, was her rage at his-, constant flirtation* with" other Womeni " - The murderer said that the woman ad. mitted him by a window, and when he had entered the room returned immedi- . ately to bed and lay down beside her husband, who was fast asleep; Bragnel wat armed with a gun, which he rested ' across the woman'B limbs, m order to feat' precise aim and so shot the man. The . court-room was the scene of a very realistic and sensational effect m the eonrsft of the trial. The judge had the bloodstained bed brought into court and compelled the prisoners, the murderer axd ' the wife, to assume' the identical positions which they occupied at the moment ■.. ■ of the murder, as described by BragueL Notwithstanding' the overwhelming eyi,- . . . , , dence. against'" the woman, the- jury, ao ' quitted her of any complicity^ and ßrag* uel was foun^ guilty and condemned to imprisonment for lift.' " ,' -■:■■■ j-i- :-.,