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[to preparate a fourth-- that of hus own father a. | was proud of what he had done, though he 'e "| victim, and especially at sot having stuck SOMEBODY'S DARLING. Into a ward of the whitewashed walls, Where the dead and the dyjuy lay Wounded by bayonets, shells, and balls, Somebody's darling was hs one day-- | Somebody's Barling !--80 Young und so brave, Wearing still on his pale, sweet lace Soon to be hid by the dust of the grave, The hngering lightol his boyhood's grace. | Matted and damp are the curls of gold Kissing the snow of that fair young brow Pale are the lips of delicate mould; Somebody's darling is dymg not. Back from the beautiful blue-veined face Brush every wandering silken thread ; Cross his hands as a sign of grace ; Somebody's darling is still and dead. Kiss him once for Somebody's sake ; Murmur a prayer soft and low! One bright curl from the cluster take ; i They were sumebody's pride you know. | Somebody's hand hath rested there : i Was it a mother's, soft and white ? | And have the lips of a sister fair Kissed farewell in those waves of light? | God knows best. He was Sumebody's love , | Somebody's heart enshrined him Yerer Somebody walled his name above, | Night and morn, ou the wings of prayer. | © Somebody wept when he marched away. | Looking so handsome, brave, and grand ! | Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay ; | Somebody clung to his parting hand. Somebody's watching and waiting for him, Yearnmg to hold him again to her heart, { There hie lies, with the blue oyes dim, And smiling, etli-like lips apart. Tenderly bury the fair young tend, Pausing to diop on his grave a tear; Carve on the wooden slab at his head--- ¢« Somebody 's darling lies buried here I"? Literature, An Extraordinary Criminal. ONE GF THI MOST AUDACIOUS scouxpuiLs EVER PLACED ON TRIAL--EHWC CENE IN A FRENCIL COURT OF JUSTICE. Pais (Feb, 27) Correspondent of London Tinics. "A trial for murder, which came on be- fote the Assize Court of Pais, on Monday, presented some of the most shocking fea- res of any that 1 remember for years. It wes notonly the erimnae itself, but it was the manner in whieh the perpetrator of it gloried in what he avowed to be a erime, and the | soriow -- the ouly sort of 1emorse he said he felt--1that, iustead ot one murder, he had not tine to commit four, which inspired the audience with honor. -Crminale there are who coufess' aud : boast? of their atrocitids under the influence of sane excitement ; but the audacity, hot fofan 1stant checked by the wdignant murmars of judges, jiiry, | and audience, with whieh this youth of nineteen related, with unfaltering voice, | Yow hie dink planed three ders in grder ~ was such as has not been often witnessed in any assize court. He poke aus if he was unhappy at having only to boast of one down + the leading eharactér® in "the drama, meaning his father, which he had long pro- jected and prepared. : He is a young man of middle statute, slight, regular, and even delicate feature, | and of a fair compléxion. In the course of his answers to the judge, his l'achid. Jatme-edged weapony and stabbed her in ) the face, the neck, the breast, back, ard other patts of the body. The daughter, who heard her mothers shrieks, rushed down stairs, and she and the porter of tha house found the door fastened on the inside. They then forced it open, when they saw the un- | fortunate woman leaning againet the wall, covered all over with wournuls, and literally bathed in blood. She Threw herself into her daughter's arms and then fell dead. Behind her stood the murderer with his shirt sleeves tucked vp, a long knife, drip- ping with blood, with the poiut broken, 1n lus hand. Fe stooped over his victim, and { seeing that she was dead, said that he was m-------- Did you ot 4 act so out of vupidity ? For no other motive Tago . But what had the apprentice to do with that? Against her I had nothing to say ; bat she was in my way, and might have disclosed what I had done Before I could finish my task. So that you meant to get rid of every one in your way with the knife? Yes, if r 'dould: Aad your father? Oh! asto my father, | I kept bim for the last. What I intended | was to murder him in his sleep. You had planned your ciime some time before 2 About 18 months before. | ¥ou took pleasare in the idea of murder ? SE------------------ J I did with premeditati ion. Indulgence from you is impossible, and I do not ask for it. If you necord me extenuating circumstances, I khall owe them to your disdain and' not to your compassion. | want no eXtendating circumstances ; [ will not "have my saved at such a price; He who inflicts death deserves death. Let us make a calculation. I. had concei L (I 2 | gnevances towards society and suciny hes to reproach me ; aml therefore, | say that the account #8 'balanced between us. I declare that if you grant extenuati 2. circumstanees , thougii this is not probable, I am resolved to (he of starvation rather than to be sent to Bagne. [I want 0 Jsave me the satisfaction of feeling that [ have been judged responsibly for my sets. Tha - journals that announced my crime 'mast also e my pnnnish ti; and happy at having evenged himself, and that Yes ; and the proof 1s that I committed it. | [ obtain what | desire, justice. will have the only regret he had was not having tune, {to do the same to tliree others, as he hi af | made up Lis mind to murder four persons ; 3 Your father's marriage had been fixed | for the 22ud of December ? Yes. | And it was on the 20th you committed | been vanquished. I will mount the seaflold without a single shudder, and without a word of repentance: 1n-conclusion I ask of you if it won!d be humanity to inflict upon that he was neither mad nor drunk, and | thé ciime for which you are now before us? | ine a slow death ; to forea me to die with that he well knew the scaffold awaited him, | When the Commissary of Police appeared he told him that eighteen months before he had resolved to kill his father. A few extracts frum his examination by the Judge will best give an i character of this extinordinary criminal : | | | 1 idea of the | gi That day your father was to have dined "at | | the héuse of a fiiend 7. Yes, and that was { | the reason I fixed that day, not to be iuter- | rupted by kis being in the house. What were your plans? I meant to be- gin by strangling the widow Bainville, and | | throw her body into the cellar after having {me the hunger when you can finish me by a single | stroke. Are we to go back to those barbar= ous periods when criminals were tortured, |. and when the executioner was recomended [not to strike the vital parts to soon 2 Grant therefore, my prayer and pronounce against condemnation which I have we'l merited. By so doing you psy homage 10 justice, and you render a service 10 soci Judge-- You lost your motlier about two cut her throat to make eure she was dead. | ety, and to one of its members who 1s for | years ago? Yes, about two years, Your bad conduct was one of the causes of her illness and ler death ?7 So it was, in great part, That deplorable calamity made an impression on you, should evitable. but, on the whole, I was very glad she | died. { Yes; and you did not conceal it when you said that it was a mouth the less to feed. Jes, that was what 1 thought, | You were the only son ? Yes. | brought on her last illness. Ihave already told you it was, Your father was an honest man. ~ You have only to ask Mr. Plisspn about that, | mother. Not the least iu the worid, You were put out to se¢hico) when you were I was; but I did not learn much. Upto what time did you rcmam at school ? Till I wits thirteen. | You were put apprentice 10 a jaweller, but | thing did not suit me. You would not do anything." always lazy. Your father touk you back and tried to do! something wilh yuu, but you refused to} work. 1 did not want to work. You only wished to amuse yourself? As) much as possible. You gave yourself up to debuchery, and suffered the consequences of it. You could | not be made to upderstand that labor is the mest honarable of all things, 1 admit that uot go on. Oue_must make au effo tio], work, and what 1 Jike is to remain in re- | TES a LE Skt a ed'to work ? Not the least; J am too indo-| [lent for work ; Lam ouly agtive for what is | bad, g Your father nttistat on for be eaid|® that: whenever be was called from his | meals he emptied his glass before. quitting | the table,, fearing you might throw pioson | into it. It was an nnnecessary precaution ; it was not for the want of the will oa my pait : but poison is not in my line. You spoke to your father several times 18 f exhibited a harshness and determination which otherwise would "buve passed un- perceived. During his examination he | FARM RISKS ar. Sreciairy R Barts, \ ite Bepartntent, No EXTRA Charge for MILITARY SERVICE in defence of the COUNTRY. Life Zoficis che for the benefibof: Wife or Children Secure from by Creditors. Policy for $1000, b the Guaranteed Bonus Poet 31 tan s uaranteed Bonus ivnid + mn ble al O years, one- Routh yr ome patie tir 3 yn ie SEE ony Sethe; er Bly g er eal er Hines ul Years, ol kA , 000. ¥%= Claims pay able one month after proot of a the}, F. C. SMITH, Resident Secret : o . MONTREAL: » é 2. Ca "Prince Albert Cand (Be Heirs aay t 1 every q without the slight- est pause, and seemed' to Jeel himself a lero ; was not for an instant intimidated, and when 'his answers stuta Arillaf horror among the spectators, he aflacted to turn his back to the judge, and looked around as if he either defied them all or expected ap+ plause for what lio:had done, His. name is. Charles Felix Lemaire, the only child-of a locksmith, living in the Rue de Chartres, in the 19th amondissement of (Paris. His fale, | aman of §8, had lost his wife aboal LW years, ago, and was aboul to, marry' a, woman named Bainville, living in the saline louse, and who had a daughter of 17 by = former marriage. : The son, whose. evil in. stincts had been manifested: from; nn. early age, was opposed to the mastiage, and re- WESTERN ASSURANCE COMP'Y TORONTO, C.W. INCORPORATED... Pras: 1-3 1) | Capital, + Ts -8400,000. rT GEO. M bit Ei hs fr . i Trav 0 08 ly omy of Ontario H. Burnhai CLERK THIRD D. : By cid Hed tne inte! fev Tom ih Good ards, and atten- Office over Mr. Bigelow's Fig ie his toto | tive Ostlers. 'moderate. pl ed gi ges modernt. ie i sf: bl fe 23-1y JOHN MILLER, PORT PER ) . A solved (0 Pp itby 4 the on the very day befoge that on whith it was to be'solennized., He bad been, vp to the lastm y ly on fri ly: Aerms with the widow, 'Baingille Ou the evening of the 20th of December he called 10 see hef in hér apartment, svhere she was employed | : in her nsual occupation, 'her daughter andjlieo y L sistants. He told her he irad * a message frond his fathér, and'on getting her ons stairs into dpother room, shutling the door, he threw a cord' round fer n wh had previously tibd'to a Hook Tastened in the wall for'that purpose. Yesisted and wot her haud between her neck and the cord, about the possibility of your po'soning him. Did you not lift your bands against him one day ? 1 did, Your father had strength enough to defend himself, aud you said that when one fears a mun, one does notassalt him face to face, and it was you then spoke. ol poison. It was not that day 1 said 80sec oo» 0 This means, you observed, was not ener- getic enough for you, | Yes. You said yon spoke of poison fo your fa ther to kéep him in fear. Yew. "This is the very extiéme of villany. 1 Know very 'well that nobody approves it, and that every ore 'condemns us. If any one were to tell me that 'I' was nght in ihinking and acting as 1° fave acted and thought, I should fell Him that' he was as bit as myself, You shock wie feelings that' dre in my heart, , You muy say so as often as you please. T'can only' ansiver that you are right, Alter some further qian? ms to his habats previcus to thé 'eommiseion of the crime, and' which he ansivered ix he: same manger, thie Juuige said + AE . Did you notswear tat your father's mar iage should not take'place'? 1did 5 T said fo myself, « T) want lo Well, then," take apon 'myself to give Wiem the nuptial blessing. Lid That is to say, 10 murder (} them ? Yes, the whofe lot ; the widow Bainville to begin when Lemaire took a knife, which he had previously bought, and ground so as to make my father. have It was in-|all these crimes 7 First to try strangulation ; Sometimes I reproached mysell; | then to cut their throats with the razor that She always treate {you with aflection and I cotd trom slipping off. tenderness, and it was your misconduct that [the table within my reach, taking care to hide the blade under some rugs, and only | ence by his extraordinary trial, for nothing leaving the hall visible. you pause ? Ob, of course ! | corrected him, and, said, iy, do they 4 with, then her daughitef, - then the young apprentice, because éhe was in my way, and might disclose the first two crimes, and [ meant to have crowned all by killing then to the apprentice girl; and at night, | when my father was in bed aud asleep, to] 3 Kill him. Iu what way did you propose to commit is now on the table before you; and then fling the bodies into the cellars, and trap- | 1 had lelt open. For that | purpose I brought the cord you see there, | and the large nail which I fixed in the wall after bending the end of it to prevent the | The knife I put on door of which What did you intend to do after you had and then those of my that 1 should soon be taken, but at least 1 should have had a few days {o divert myself in the meantime. Did net the horror of Sod: erime make (Ironically) | | How did you appear to your father the | you staid with him only a few mouths. The | day on the evening of which you committed | | | the murder ? I a oDeaTel tohum as a good | raly No, I Was son almost affectionate, but it was to pre- [Fier prostration, Lewis requested that a | [ meant to do the same to her daughter; [ever lost to it. The prisoner's counsel made an effort to, «ave the life of hisstrange client. Alter the indge's charge, the jury retired to their room for half an hour, and returned, as every one ex xpected, with a verdict of guilty, without | extenuating circumstances. The prisoner was asked whether he had anything more to say. He replied, "nothing whatever? The court then prononneed sentence of death, informing the prisoner, at the same time, that he had three clear days to appeal against the sentence. ould not sign any appeal ; that he had what lie asked for, and he th nked the court and jury. [le was then taken away, ap- parently and much pleased as a man would e who was acquitted. It is diffienlt. to fo the effect produced on the authe like it has been known for years. ---- --- A Srna Stony.-- There arrived 'at dene all that To take tho keys of the | Troy on Teusday evening Inst, from New Your father told you after her death that] wilow Bainville, ho should work for youas he had for your | father, steal all the money 1 could Jay Hands) tures constitutute a chapter as romantie and Had not that any effect upon you? on, and quit the house ; | knew very hy i Is { York a young man named William H, Lewis, late major 1m the Fedral army, whose adven- | interesting as any found in the page of fie- tign. Having letters 10 Gen. Wool he dis- embarked at Troy while on route fur his home in Jowa, and 'was in the act of registaring his name at the Troy House, when he staggered and tell 10 the floor, profusely bleeding from a wound in the right lung. He was picked up by the at- tendants of the hotel, conveyed to a room, and medical atter dance summoned. ~ After ring somewhat from the affects of his veut him suspecting anything. It was | wessenger wou d be despatelied for Mujor= : g Gen. Carry nod (hat gentleman called vpon merely a snare 1 laid for him. 1 is "To the ral he related his singu= The examination continued for some time longer, and the prisoner gave every explan- | asked of him. When the Judge spoke | of three murders, the prisoner respectiolly " Four sir, not The lust question put by the Judze was whetlier he now felt sorrow to remorse | for'wlhat he had done. Ile answered with- | | ation three."? teat, ¢ Not the sli My only regiet is that I did not succeed so completely: as I de sit- ed Fin" witat "I projected, MIT It we¥o 103 Did you mike any eflurt to gel habituat- | begin again 1 should do the same ; and | had no opportunity fo communicate with his this time I should do better?" The prisoner had impated acts of profli- sacey to his father, but thesey were satisfac- | try disproved by the 'testimony of expec- | tional witnesses. A wmgdical man who had | attended him was examined as to the state lof Liis mind; He said that he seemed 10 him to be a gentle in mauper, and heard what was said to him i ng replying ; that something might be the matter his brain j but these was merely a supposi- tion of his part, in support of which he could ailege no fact. The'day before the murder the prisoner gave acquaintance some books he had--¢ Le Filote Ulysee," « Robinsou Crusos," ene or two he had got as as '"a reward of merit"? from the Mayor, [the + Memorial de St. Helene, anda trans- lation df « Fabrica." hd The father was not called upon to give evidence, but his wiitlen deposition was read . | At the close of it he stated that his sons's mind had been affected by the con- staut reading of criminal trials in the courts, and that be had been long occupied with the trial ot Dr. Lapommerais. The wimes- ses declared that the father was greatly at- tyched to his 'son, and it was only afer he had threateved 10 poison him that he resolv- ed to marry.' This the prisoner corroborated. « My father," he sad, "only thought of marrying when hé knew Lwished to mnrdes bim ; he wished to do s0 by, way of precau- tion." . When the examination of the wit- Less was over the prisoner asked to be al- Jowed to address the Cougt, which was granted. He had evidently long before prepared speech, and be recited it rapidly, as if he had got it by heart. He indignant- 1y repudiated the notion of his being insane, and concluded with these words: When my advocate came to see me, Fsaid «Ah sir, you have a very bad. case in band." But he accepted my defénce, as it with that there is no possible eXtennation of my acts. If a moment of excitement or passion { army, was his duty to do. 1 perfeeily understand { Paris. lac story, and his abundant evidence in The shape of letters and commendations testify~ ing bis character and position, there is no, doubt of the entire tuth of all he says. Atthe beginmug of the late war Lewis was a student in BE astmans Commercial Col! ege at Pouz ie. Ie enlisted in odge's Mounted I flow. was Irensferred from that organiz tion as Second Liewtenant in the 152nd Infantry. Subsequently he kev ot d il everybody were like me the world could} hesitation, and iu the same calm voice 2! wns madd Capiain of Co. Fof the reziment. While engaged in jaying the pontoon bridge at'Fiedericksburg hie was wounded in the capital and ta his detainei" for fhonths ant tnonths, | friends. When released he again joined the was wonnded at Antietam, and aflier- wards at Geytsboig, where he received ® shot in the bead, fracturing the skull, and from July till November remained almost totally unconscious in one of the hospitals at Philadelphia. Recovering; he again re-en- tered the field, and at Sailors' Creek reoeit- | ed the wound through the lung. The father of young Lewis was a man of large property ia ths State of Towa, was a Brigader in the volunteer service, andefell woitally wounded while leading his brigade at the battle of Chiattanvogn,' His only brother was Lieutenant Colonel of the 21st Towa Infantry, and was killed at Antietam. His mother died during the war, and while her husband and her only chill were in the service. While the young man was a prisoner in the South, Gen. Halleck cer=, tified to ah uncle of Tewis, living in Towa,' that William H. was among thie killed at: Fredericksburg. Ou the strengih of this certificate, it is alleged, the uucle secured the necessary legal papers to' administer upon the estate of hib-brower aiid deceased family, The uncle was declared the only heir; he immediately sold the properiy, re- ceiving therefore $15,000 aud «hh this money leit for. Europe, where he now is. had of the death of his father, mathe brother, was after his release from tn Sputhern prisofis. Sudsequently he 'wrote 10 his friends in lowa to look ijeriiy his ' prop= erty, and also send him means ; and wis. grea! surprise.then | leaned | what his, had been doing, aid he had left he ' country. About a year ago young g Lewis resolved to pursue the uncle, and has been absent fora the country on this business; about a year agoarivingin Ni Yi bythe William Penn on Sunniay last. 1 he | uncla was living insfans, and a man oi The whole Bh 'of the case' ues b vod ) ni before Gen. Dix, the American Minister &t' Paris,and a dwellmg house: io Paris avast: by the uncle, and also Adeposh in one of banks, have been attach He cdedinge, The uncle fled detectives are now on : endeavour to nffect" "his that somemc nths must issue jo. the case under the Frane from low ho 5 at New sion of Major Lewis neta recommendatory letters fr { had Jone them, I could conceive mitigating cuebmstances. But. what F'did Gen. Shendan and Gen, Herald, 8th. He replied that he * The fist intimation that young Lowi, ; ken. South, where ha gun: aj ow aa te Sr. La LS RG Ts