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The day before yesterday, the Court of Criminal two:.
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1 Justice commenced with the prosecution of a per- was
son named l'l'd i r I gmis Cordon, a baker's boy, aged 'r
1 I. ' ~:..: years, who was brought before the Court for cure
having, on the .10th Brum :ire, of the year 12, in eor
o,s, . Concert with one Gilbert, who has disappeared, its- minr
r i iiigled out of Pal is one A. Bonnassems also a that
baker's boy. and of having assas-inated him on the of i
• I'= vote to Vincennes. tionasseeu, who was left for lute
dead, bad been conveyed by some tens d'armes, on Nr.
. • the fellowing morning, the Ist Frimaire, before the 0,,,
Justice of Peace of Belleville. He made, at first, a „Air
• II declaration, which he afterwards renewed to several -I
other persons, with many other circumstances, c'ur-
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ing the twenty-five days that he lived in the e: lim
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tiiheleUh',7 1 followingisiiipy youngf s man.appear
Bfreinrng teheet without to ;
depositionitcn, of cow
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I tent fur some time, he was solicited one day by car
to go with them to Vincennes, •
I Carden and Gilbert, .
vebere they ;unposed presenting him to a baker, who din
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/ reamed a off. They pressed him to withdrew ~c
from Mr. Dumas. who keeps an eating house for .. ,
hikers' boys, and with whom he lodged. all his he
diets, consisting of a silver watch and chain, silver his
buckles, gold ear-rings, linen and weerables. and an,
persuaded him to answer his host, if he made any
Soohjeetions, that an uncle, whom he had sit Paris, ~in
eji proposed to lodge and provide him with a place. Gi
Impatient to get into employment, and confiding in
i lir the promises of his two c.;:nrades. Cordon Arid Gil- na
' 1; herr. Bonasstrau demanded, on the 30th Brumaire, Fai
in the year 12, his *frets of Mr. Dumas, who failed ree,
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not to make the objeetiens pre-supposed ; hut to sh
. •4, which he ieplied by the falsehoods that had been sub- anIC rested to him. Dumas returned to him his effects, wi
11.. MCIf sed in a leather bag, and saw him immediately
D• join Guidon and Gilbert, who waited fur him in the 6,,
• i street, with whom he set off. he
When they art ived at the barrier Du Trone, they
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stop, ed at an inn, about four o'clock in the "yen- T
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ing ; they Ate something, played at cards, and lett m
it a: t. e aoproach of night, to go to Vincennes. m
Passing the ,ugh a narrow passage, in the neigh- h.
bourhtwd of the toed to St. Mande, Benasseau oh- al
served, that the 4 wei e going fi om Vincennes. Gil- vi
ts bert and Lantern then said, that as night had come v,
on, it would not b• p oiler to present themselves so h
I:del:set-ore I e master baker. Bonasaeau proposed se
• • to deter the atfair till the morrow, and return to ai
1 sls ep at Pas is ; at the •a;ee instant he was struck
with a stick on the head. WI ich brought him to the c,
groutel. He lost his senses, and, during his swoon, it
be was pierced hr some sharp and pointed instru-
ments. such as a knife, scissars, or poignard. Not- e
k ' withstanding this, a little after, he was thrown to ri
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. the ground, he was sensible that they returned, for
• the purpose, no dou'it, of taking from him his lea- ei
4' cher bag, which contained his elfeas, and they p
shook him to aseertain'what state he was in. d
Though left in this manner for d• ad, Bonesseau c
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; 1 e came to himself in the middle of the night, and
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deavonned to move towards some ha httation ; but, c
overcome by weakness, he threw himself on the s
round, in a field of geotherry-tices, between 1
M fin etentant eel Charonne
At day•hreak, the inhabitant's of Belleville found
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Wm. and benuOt. some reitv d'art/us, who carried
him swore the Justice of the Peace, tit whom Bo- 1
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__plat save the roregoing account of his sts.as-
sination. t
It. was known that Cardon had engaged himself to ,
'replace a conscript, that he had relations at SenirS, ;
and had gone there. ihe particulars given by Dumas
1..! and lionasseau of where he lodged, were sent to all
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the tine, and he was arrested with his musket on
les shoulder, white mounting guard at the door of ;
• • the Military Hospital at Soasburgh. He told the
• r as Warms wit., arrested him, that he had left
i . Pars wish G Ilee , and in the con; se of his defence,
1 1 ' upon the 'rat, he mentioned that he had set out
ato ie to join the corps of the consct:pt whom he had
. • . replaced.
, He assee,ed also, that he had set out on the 29th
Brun:Like, but the landlord !Juntas Affirmed that he
bad seen him on the 30th, waiting in the street for
Bonasseau, with whom, and G•lhert, he went
1 iii ; away. and Cardon was obliged to admit hr had set
out the 3oth ; he asst.:ad, that he went alone, after
having petsed use morning in making some restitu-
tions to his comredis ; that he had not accompanied
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mut, he went to sleep et Claic. at an inn, the' de-
l'' i Bona:seau ; that, following the initiations of his
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scription of which he gave. This description was
t ; found to be exael, by the testimony of the meek: sof
the inn, who were summoned to attend, but they de-
; • ; • dared they could recolleCt nothing of Cardoa for the
last five months.
1 The Piesident remarked, that the accused had
I lodged at diffetent times in this inn, and recollefted,
thar the same day of the assassination, Cardon
I might have perpetrated it about six o'clock in the
evening, on the road to St. Mande, and be at Claic
; • . at eleven. According to the declaration of sonic
pas d'ariazs. it appeared that Carden and Gil-
-1 • best, believing that they had given the fatal blow to
lionasseett, as we have reason to suppose, by the care
they took to return and shake him, to ascertain,
whether lie breathed, returned the same evening (3
Brumaire) to Paris, in the certainty that thi y might
tenni': there some time; and when they learned that
Bonasseau survived his wounds, they said to some
persons, uit is time to fly." Gilbeit has not been
discovered, and it is believed he has left France.
The gins d'arna I added to this declaration, that they
knew Carrion and Gilbert to have been implicated
in a criminal process. in consequence of a robbery
committed on M. Dru, a bather, at Belleville, that
the chereeter of Cation was very little esteemed in
the canon,. One of them said that the young man
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was violent, and that ere day he was seen to follow
1i: Li• own wide with a pistol, because the latter bad
refused to give him money.
Bonawseau being conveyed to the Hotel Dieu,
when be expired, after suffering for twenty-five days
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/ ' tee most violent convulsions, told Mr. Dumas, tha:
it was Cardon and Gilbert, who had advised him to
Tait his inn, and that they had pierced him with
wounds, on the road to St. Mande. He told a
'wing winepresser, his companion, that Cardon had
goon him the first blow; and he made the same de-
Cl4l ill, oil to the mire•-cruder shortly before he died.
l. ardor assn red Mat that declaration of the dead
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