Charges of Murder against a Girl, .

The Paris .correspondent of the Morning Post writes: — A very curious and very dramatic prosecution is about to begin at the Oiso Assizes. The principal prisoner is a girl of IS, named Marie Juliette Capronnier, who is accused of having murdered and robbed two persons. The first of theße crimes was committed on 26th March. Marie Capronnier was visiting a relative, Madame Veuve Morlay, at Bresles. At dinner she put some morphia into her relative's soup, and, as soon as Madame Morlay became unconscious, strangled her by tying a napkin tightly round her neck. Afterwards Capronnier searched the house, but, not finding the money ahe expected, had to be contented with securities valued at some 14,000 francs. Considering that her plan had failed, the girl immediately made up her mind to try again, the victim chosen on this occasion being a Beauvaia farmer, named Poirier, whose servant ahe had been. Three days later, on 29th March, Poirier was killed exactly in the name way as Madame Morlay. Capronnier this time secured 6000 francs in gold and silver, besides securities, and returned with her plunder to Haudivilliers. When arrested, the girl, who suffers from hysteria, accused her sweetheart, Henri Boit, of being her accomplice, but the young man succeeded in proving his innocence. Marie Capronnier then said that she committed the Grimes in order to get money, hoping that when she had a sufficient dowry Boit would marry her. The mother of the girl is to h& tried on the charge of having received the stolen property from her daughter. Later reports state that Juliette Cappronier has been condemned at the Oise Assizes to hard labour for life, and her mother has been sentenced to ten years. It was conclusively proved that the girl had murdered Madame Morlay, and also the old^ man, M. Poirier, by pouiing morphine into their food and garotting them when they became unconscious, and ifc was also demonstrated that the elder prisoner had received and hidden the money and other articles which her daughter had. taken away with her after committing the crime. The two women maintained a quiet demeanour when their fate was proclaimed, but they frantically abused and insulted the large crowd which had assembled outside the Court-house as they were conveyed back to gaol.

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