TRIPLE MURDER IN FRANCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1377, 11 August 1885, Page 3

TRIPLE MURDER IN FRANCE.

At Troyes Assizes, says a Home paper, two men named Arnnult and Gagny, were couvicted of a triple murder at a house formerly a monastery, and still called liloire Dieu. The owner Delahache, his paralytic mother, and the maid-servant, beinar all tke inmates ot this sequestered dwelling, weie found murdered one morning in January by a shepherd who daily brought the letters from the post. Suspicion at once fell on a notorious poacher named Gagny, who began spending money somewhat lavishly, and in his cottage M. Delahache's watch was found, as was also a shirt stained with blood and indentified as the property ot Arnoult, a lawyer. Jhe latter confessed that tbey had called at Gloire Dieu on the pretence of selling fir plants ; that while M. Delahache wai uncorking a bottle to give them wine they struck him down dead ; that they called the maid, who was upstairs, stkangled her at the foot of the stairs, and then despatched the aged mother, who was in bed, Gagny to the last denied his guilt, and thereby lost the benefit of the extenuating circumstances which tin' jury somehow discovered in Arnoult's case. The Utter was sentence to hard labor for life, while Gagny, unless reprieved by M. Grevy, wiil be executed.