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A Terrible Murder Case.

The Assize Court of the Hdrald, France, had before it lately a terrible ease of murder committed, according to the indictment, in the moat heartless and cold blooded manner possible to conceive. A man named Engalbert lived at Galian near Bezier?, with hia wife, aged thirty-seven, and his daughter eleven years old. He was fifty-five years of age, but unable to work owing to an abdominal compliant, caused, it is said, by an attempt of his wife to poison him. A son seventeen years of age worked in a neighboring village. Madame Engalbert, who is represented as a woman of depraved morals, was the mistress of a landowner named Gely, aged seventy-seven. It was alleged that this old man repeatedly urged her to get rid of her husband, and had promised to maintain her and her daughter in luxury. After purchasing a revolver with the money given to her for the purpose, she induced her son to join her in an attempt against her husband’s life. According to a prior arrangement tbe whole family set out for Beziers. On the way the wife asked her husband to tie her shoe lace, which he stooped to do, when she immedia’ely fired three shots from the revolver into ihe back of his neck. He fell senseless to the ground, when the woman discharged three other shots at him, while the son belabored bis head and face with a stick specially brought for the purpose. The woman then slashed away the dead man’s face with a knife, and tbe body waarfurther mutilated by the son, who like bis mother appeared to have been seized with a frenzy. The mother returned to Gabian, the son to Foe, where he was employed. As soon as the body was discovered the woman Engalbert was arrested and she immediately declared that, she bad acted alone and on her own impulse, at Gely's suggestion. From the nature of the wounds however it was patent that she must have had an accomplice, and the son was arrested, and on being taken into custody made a full confession. Gely was also arrested, but this old man, bent almost double with the weight of years, though perfectly lucid while admitting his relations with the woman, denied the crime placed to his charge. The little daughter gave evidence to the effect that she had frequently heard Gely and her mother talking of getting rid of her father. The jury after considerable deliberation found a verdict oi guilty against mother and son, but acquitted Gely. The woman was sentenced to death and the son to penal servitude for life.

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 489, 5 August 1890, Page 3

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A Terrible Murder Case. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 489, 5 August 1890, Page 3

A Terrible Murder Case. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 489, 5 August 1890, Page 3

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