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Dreadful Murder in France miraculously discovered.Tvro female* (*i*tcr») were executed on the 7th ult at Strasburgh, by the guillotine, as the participator* in a shocking murder perpetrated not far from that.place last year. The circumstances having been very slightly and inaccurately mentioned in the fortign journal*, the follow ing particulars of the horrid transaction are published as if by authority, in the Moniteur of last week. The singular circumstance of the dead body of the victim being cast up by the river near the *pot where the assassins were carousing add* another to the myriads ofinstances, that Providence has decreed that murder though it hath no tongue, yet shall it speak with most mirjcu lou* organs. Madame de Beaumont Je la Coste, a french lady of rank and fortune, had quitted France during the Revolution, and had retired to Brody, in Gallicia, where she was a resident nearly 20years. The return of the King h iving made it safe for her to revisit her native country, she left Brody, and reach- 1 ed Strasburgh on the 15th of July, last year.—It appeared, that the next day she wrote a most affectionate letter to her sister, Madame [ Dervieux, at Marseilles, informing her that she was to set out next morning on her way to visit her, having hired a carriage, the conductor or driver of which was named Gollet, and who she described as a man so jealous, that he took -hi* wife with him every where. This fpretended wife turned out to be Catharine Goujon a concubine, and one of those who was executed. Catharine was allowed on this occasion to take with her her sister Josephine, not more than 17 years of age, and who performed the of- 1fice of waiting maid to Madam Beaumont, so faithfully, that the Utter promised to retain her when she arrived at Marseilles. On the 1rout between Strasburgh and Besan con, and twelve leagues from the latter place, the three miscreants above-named, conceived and executed the horrid project of assassin ating the unfortunate lady, who had reposed so much confidence in them. They strangled her in the carriage, stripped her naked, and after nearly severing her head from her body, threw the mangled remains into the river Doubs. Covered withthe blood of their victim, they pursued their journey, as if nothing had happened. At Besancon they spent a few days in extravagance and debauchery, but the sharing of the spoils of their victim, having finally occasioned disunion, Gollet the driver, turned out of doors the two sisters Goujon.In the mean time, the dead body of Madame de Beaumont was tht own on the banks of the Doubs, close to Besancon, as if by miracle, having been driven by the stream nearly as fast as the murderers travelled themselves* Gollet, struck with remorse and horror, instantly quitted the place; the two Goujons remained two days longer. At Colmar, Gollet exchanged the Austrian ducats,, of which Madame de Beaumont had been possessed, for French money and here he met with a former concubine, named Boesch, with whom he returned to Strasburgh, in order JtfLget a coivey^nce to Paris in the diligence. ATllVISd ilithe Fi'ertch capital, Gollet and his mistress gave themselves up to all sorts of extravagancies, and made an excursion to Brussels, merely to vary the scene of their debaucheries. By this time Madame Dervieux, of Marseilles, having become alarmed for her sister, wrote to the minister of police at Paris, detailing all she knew from her sister’s letter. In an instant Gollet and his mistress were arrested and thrown into prison at Paris, and almost at the same moment the two Goujons were ar-' rested at Strasburgh, in consequence of a telegraphic communication. Gollet, having lulled the suspicions of his keeper, was enabled to cut his throat with a razor, but his mistress was sent to Besancon, to be tried along with the Goujons, The
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Annapolis Maryland Gazette And Political Intelligencer
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Thu, May 22, 1817
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