5 OCTOBER 1867, Page 3

Yesterday week, Louis Bordier, the Frenchman whose gentle and affectionate

manner of murdering his wife we discussed a month ago, was found guilty of the murder,—his counsel having, -of course, attempted to get him off only on the ground of insanity, —urging in proof Bordier's alleged delusion that he could not =cut his own throat, because the blood from his wife's "stood up like a pillar or barrier between his throat and the razor." It did not seem at all clear, however, that this was a genuine delusion, -and not rather a mode of expressing the staggering of his imagi- nation under the excitement of the murder ; and Mr. Justice Smith pointed out that the reasons Bordier had assigned for the murder were all perfectly sane. He alluded also to traces of an expectation in the prisoner's correspondence that he would be regarded as a hero for the deed he was about to do. The jury -deliberated for only half an hour, and then found the prisoner guilty, and Mr. Justice Smith passed sentence of death on him in the usual form.