Democratic Standard

A TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.

The following shocking narrative is published by the Paris Droit:—"M. C. was formerly at the head of a commercial house of considerable importance; but having failed in business, became induced to take a situation as shopman. He lived with his wife a woman of good family, his daughter, aged 16, and three sons all younger. Madame C. received assistance from her father, but he resisted all her importunities to place her daughter in a boarding school, and give her a superior education—alleging that it would be inconsistent to bring the girl up as a lady, while her brothers were obliged to earn their own living as journeymen.

Mademoiselle C. was in fact, sent out as an apprentice; but her mother, during an absence of M. C., sent for her to come home on Saturday last, loaded her with caresses, and then sent her back again to her business. In the evening the mother retired with her 3 sons to their chamber put them to bed, and, after fastening the door and writing several letters, lighted several braziers of charcoal, and, placing herself at the foot of the bed in which her sons were all asleep, patiently awaited for death to come upon them all. On Sunday M. C. returned and not finding his wife and children stirring, but their chamber door closed, had it broken open, found their corpses,—Madame C. was still at the foot of the bed, with her hands clasped as if in prayer; but the boys from the position of their arms and their clenched hands, had evidently suffered great agonies." Two of them had left their bed and dragged themselves towards their mother. Among the letters was one by Madame C. to her father, entreating him in most affecting terms to continue the education of her daughter as by the death of her mother and three sons he was relieved from a heavier burden. Yesterday afternoon, the rue du Petit Carreau, in which this unfortunate family resided, was crowded with people to view the mournful procession of hearses hung with white, in which were the coffins of the boys, following by a fourth with black drapery, bearing the remains of their infatuated mother to the cemetery.