M. Roi de Valine, a young gentleman of Picardy, about the age of seventeen, was lately broke upon the wheel at Abbeville, and his body afterwards burnt, for attempting to poison, at an entertainment, his uncle and aunt, and several other persons, one of whom actually died in about five hours.
He confessed the fact, and other crimes not charged against him in the process. Ten thousand crowns, out of his estate, were adjudged to the family of the deceased person; a very equitable sentence.
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