The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

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you or such a crime? What interest can the mother of
your children have in so doing T—l do not know why nit;
wife accuses me..
If she knew you to he innocent her rimming you
would only aggravate her own position.—lt is a'systom
of defence which she adopts.
. • You.have said that your wife dreads the trntli; what
de you mean by that remark?—She knows w-har t MPEII.
DO you know who was the author of the crime? —Yes,
Sir, .I do (great sensation).
Who spas it?-4 was Lay wi:e (genersl movennt
the court); but she is invoc:ut, she did not lioow what
she was doing.
• With what was Gustave poisoned?—With nieotiu.
Did you not throw Gustave on
.the ground?—l did
not. There was a dispute shout a trait dt.e.-1 natweeri
Gustave and me. I will explain all the circurnsts.nces.
I put my hand ou the mouth of Gustave in order to pre-
vent-his crying out, and in order to avoid a caw/ale.
Was it not more probable that you put the poison
into his mouth when you placed your Wald on if.?—My
wife poisoned us without knowing it; the horde and the
glasses were brought by her; she thought am' she was
giving; us wine.

The bottle which contained the nicotine was therefore
in the dining-room? The victim cried our. " Pardon,
Hippnlyte." Your wifevazul three of the servants heard
it. Your wife left the room in a few minutes after, at
the moment when Gustave was expiring. Will you ex-
plain yourself on these points?—As I took some of the
same drink I fell almost senseless on the tloorould I
beard the rattle of a person about to expire.
But you do not tell us what was the reason of Gustave
crying out ?—I do not know the cause, having, been
stupified by the drink. I think, however, I recollect thst
after my wife had poured us out the glasses at the side-
board, and Gustave bacyrunk, he exclaimed', &rent
she had given you?—Wine
nervirn !hall
did }our
help
rwife mti;einrk

—white wine.
But nicotine is of a brown colour?—Not quite; and,
moreover, there are sone white wines that are very dark.
Is there not a smell with nicotine which might have
been discovered when it was held to the nose ?—Sho did
not smell to it.
How is it that your wife does not give the same ac-
count of things as you do?—These circumstances are so
extraordinary that I have always thought that no one
would believe what was said.
If Gustave had died in consequence of an act of im-
prudence, it would not be a crime; the law would only
punish that involuntary act by a correctional penalty.
Did you not say in your room that you was determined
to get rid of Gustave?—l never said that. My wife
dares not speak the truth; she is afraid.
Did not your wife leave the room at the moment
when Gustave uttered the cry?—l heard not nothing but
the death-rattle; I saw nothing around me; I was lying
on the floor.

Was Gustave dead when you left the dining-room?—
I cannot say. A glass of warm water was brought me,
in order to neutralise tho effect of what I had drunk.
My wife is wrong in adopting the line of detente she
has done, and in not relating things as they really took
place.
The President (to Mme. de Bocarm o—Prisoner, what
have you to say to what has been just stated ?—There
is not a word of truth in it.
Did you not take a bottle and two glasses, in order to
give drink to your husband and brother ?—No, there is
not a word of truth in what has been stated.—(Great
sensation.)
You really did not use either a bottle or glasses ?—I
did not.

But if Gustave had been poisoned by you in-
voluntarily ?—I should have said so long since. (Mime.
de Bocartril here clasped her hands together, and wept
bitterly.)
The President (to \I. de Bocartr.4)—Will you explain to
us where you got the bite which you had on your hand?
—I was probably bitten by Gustave, when I placed my
hand on his mouth to prevent him from crying out.
That is a singular way of rendering assistance. You
then wished that the unfortunate man should die with-
out receiving any help?-4 wished to avoid the scandals
.of such an atfair.—(4neation.)
In what part of the room did Gustave fall?—I am not
quite certain, but I thiult it was between the door and
the etagere.
The President—We shall return again to these facts,
and now proceed to others. Did you not say on the 23d
lebruary, to the witness Vanderskreuz, in the prison at
Tourney, that you could speak of your wife without
accusing her; that you threw.Guatave on the ground to
give him poison, that you had given it to hint t:vice, and
that the second time he fell on you?-lle is mistaken;
he misrepresents our conversation, without wishing to
do !O.

The President then reminded the prisoner of a letter
which he had written to a M. Craw, residing at No. 5, Rue
St. liiacinthe, at which. he gee that.gen-
tleman some commissions to ezeehte fur him That let-:
ter contained a note, clandestinely slipped into it, in
which the prisoner begged that. M. 1-3e.rryer should not be
engaged to plead for Ills wife. Ho said that the Countess,
atter having poisoned her brother, threw all the blame
on him. it wetnd appear from this note, added the
President, that your with committed the crime intAition-
ally, while you just new said the contrary.—The circum-
stances of the case, are so extraordinary, that it is perhaps
impossible that the truth can be known,
Your note adds, that the accasation of your wife is the
consequence of the moral constraint in which she finds
herself; what do you mean by this moral constraint?
The whole contents, in fact, of your note represent the
fact of the ttOth November as a crime.
The clothes which the deceased wore on the day when
the crime was committed were hero shown to the priso-
ner, when he explained that a great quantity of vinegar
had been used to get out the stains of the nicotine; and
vinegar had been also used to prevent the effects of the
poison.
The President—But if you knew that Gustave was
dead, the application of your vinegar was useless. You
uttered cries when your servants approached, and you
deplored the death of Gustave when, a few minutes
before, you had dismissed Emerance in ill humour be-
cause she brought lights. Were not those lamenta-
tions feigned, particularly when it is known on what
hostile terms you and Gustave were? The prisoner made
no reply.
The President—lt was probably for the purpose of
playing la comidie, as your wife yesterday said.
After some few other questions of no particular inte•
rest, the Court adjourned to the next day.

THIRD DAT.
The President took the chair at 10 o'clock, and the
prisoners were introduced. The interrogatory of M. de
Socarrch was continued, _

The President—Your wife has said that you wipd ap
the floor with two handkerchiefs; that you gave the
poison, and •the floor had been scraped; by whom was
that done?—l do not know.

Did you not burn ono of your hanclkerchiefs?—l did
not.

Did your wife burn one?—l am not aware that she did.

The-President—M. Store in his report says, th t the
poison was poured into the mouth of the victim while he
was lying on the ground, and this report agrees with the
communication which you made in the prison at Tourney.
What
have you to say to this?--I could not have made
the remarks attributed to me; my wife being innocent, I
could not have said that she had poured the poison into
her brother's mouth. I have always declared that my
wife was innocent.
But did you not say that it was your wife who had
poured out the poison?--Yes, I said that, but nothing
else.
But you contradict yourself. You maintain that yorud
r.
wife is innocent, and you agree that she twice poue
out the poison.—l have always said that my wife poured
out the poison without knowing it.
The keeper of the prison to whom yeti made revela-
tions stated in your presence, when you were confronted
with him, that you had told him that your wife had
poured the poison into the mouth of the victim ?—lf I
told him so I stated what was not true.—(Agitation.)
Why then did you not explain yourself better?—l
said that I should wait to explain myself before the
court of justice, because I felt indignant at seeing that
I was made to talk while some one was at- the same
time placed to listen to what I said.
Did you not say to the same geolor that you had taken
warm water after having swallowed the poison in order
to make you vomit; and did you not make a similar
remark to the brigadier of gendarmery 2—No, I did not
say so; my remarks have been incorrectly reported.
Did you not speak to these persons of the bottle and
the two glasses which were mentioned for the first time
yesterday ?—I did not.
You wrote to your wife when in the prison at Tourney,
and after inquiring after her health, and whether she
nwoitthr a reply to
had any money, you add the words:—
me anymore,' and which words you
signedo
Had you written to her before?—No, sir; and 1 did not
ask for any answer.
That, however, is not what you said in your letter.
What did you mean by signing with across do not
exactly know; perhaps it was only meant to express the
sad situation in which we were placed.
The President (to the female prisoner)—Has your
husband written to you since you were in the prison at
Tourney?—No, Sir.
Will you explain how ,
November ?—lt was d yr of the 20th
abo)uotuEpeansllsedo'tchloect-a that my hus-
band came to announce to me the arrival of Gustave. I
got up at nine o'clock. We breakfasted at ten, and we
afterwards conversed together.
When did you sg
,in Lee Gustave?—.4kdinner.
How do you ex 'n the absence of your fermi:,
the roo an m
d
your childeen?-e: ildren were usually in
of their governeitS.
The male prisoner, rising quickly, hare said—My wife
was in the habit of sending st W 33 the servants when any
parsons dined with us, in order to 0119 w a grOlOr free-
dom of conversation. •
The President—You are not wider interrogation,
Lydie Fougnies;
state why Emerance was sent to her
room?—She was in the habit of goingAhore.
When she came to light the lamps. did you not sav
later, later?—We did not usually light the lamps until
it was altogether dark.
Your husband accuses you of having poured the
poison into Gustave's mouth.—(M
s. Bom(Tc; a tee here rose
Sit ilent.
to speak ) down and be the female
prisoner)--Wblit do you reply?--No, i I
t was not who
gave it.