The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-17 00:00:00

CUI:IOr,T,SI TRIAL.

(11LIONI LA CLEF DV CABINET.)

PARIS, APRIL ,2.

The thy before yesterday the Court tit, Criminal
Justice commenced wi►h the prosecution of a person
named Pierre Loki: Cardon, a baker's., bny, aged
&z years, who, was brought before the Court for
having, on the 30th Brumaire, of the year i 2, in
concert with one Gilbert;. who has disappsored, in-
veigled out of Paris one A. Booasseaui alts a
baker's boy, and having assa.sinated him on the
way to Vipcentta". Bonasseau, who was left for
dead, had beep conveyed by some Gras d' Armes, on
the follOWing morning, the tot rrimaire, before the
justide-of Peace of Belle.yille. He made; at first, a
declaration, which he afterwards.renewed to several
other persons, with many other circumstances, dor.
ing the twenty.fiye days that he lived in the Hotel
.Dieu,

The following faels appear from the deposition of
the unhappy yonpg man. Being without employ-
ment for some time, he was solicited' one thy by
Caron and Gilbert, to go with them to Vincennes,
where they proposed presenting him to a baker who
withdraw
from a boy. They pressed him .to
from Mr. Dutnas, ischn,,keeps an eating.house for
bakers' boys, and with whom he lodged, all his et-
leas, consisting of a silver watch and chain, silver
buckles, gold ear. rings, linen and wearables, and per-
suaded him to answer his host, if he made any ob.
jedio.ns, that an uncle, whom he had at Paris, pro.
posed to lodge and provide him with a place. Im.
patient to get into employment, and confiding in the
promises of his two comrades, Cardon and Gilbert,
Bonasseau demanded, on the
,3oth Brumaire, in the
year ta, his effects of Mr. Dumas ; who failed not
to, make the objeetiops re-supposed ; but to which
he replied by the falsehoods that had been suggested
to him. Dumas returned to him. his effeas, inclosed
in a leather bag, and saw him immediately join Car.
don and Gilbert, who waited for him in the atreei,
with whom he set off.

When they arrived at the.barrierDu Trone, they
stopped at an inn, about four O'clock in the evening;
they ate something, played at cards, and left it at
the. approach of night, to go to Vincennes. Pass.
ing through a narrow passage, in the neighbour-
hood 'of 'the road to St. Mande, Banasseau observed,
that they were going from Vincenness Gilbert
and ardon then satd, that as night had come on,
it. would 'not be proper to present themselves so late
before the mastet baker. Bonasseau proposed to de-
fer tile stair till the morrow, and return to sleep
PPatis; at the same instant he was NtroGk, with
stick on the head, which brought him to the ground,
le lost his senses, and, during his , swoon, he was
pierced by "some sharp and pointed instruments, such'
as a knife, scissars, br poignard. Notwithstand.
ing this, a little after he WAS throWn to the ground,
he was Sensible that they returned, for. the purpose,
no doubt, of taking from him his leather hag, which
curtained his effitis, and they shook him to ascertain
what statehe was its.

hoogii left in this manner for dead, Bonasseau,
came to himsellin the middle of the night, and en.
dtavoured towards some habitation;' hut,
overcome br-vvemkpces, he threw himself on the
ground, in a field of gooSligrry.trees, between Melin.
Montant and Charonne.

;'At day-break, Or irthalsitants of Bilieville round'
hire, and brought souse_ Gent .1' 41rmrs, who carried
him before the justice of the Peace, to whom 130.
nasseau gave the foregoing account of his assas.
ainarion.

It was known that Cardon hal engaged himself
to replace a conscript, that he had relations at Sen.
lis, and had gone there. The particulars given by
Dumas and Bonasseau, of where he lodged, were
sent to all the line, and he was arrested, yvith his
musket on his shoulder,
.while mounting guard at
the door of the Military Hospital at Strasburgh.—
He told the Gems d'Arrnts who arrested 'him, that
he had left Paris with Gilbert ; but in the course of
hisdefence, upon the ttial, he mentioned, that he
had set out alone to join the Corps of the Con.'
script whom he hati replaced.
He asserted also, that he hid set out on the 29th
Brumaire; but the Landlord Duitiai affirmed that lie
had seen him on the 3oth, waiting in the street for
BOnasseau, with whom, and Gilbert, he went 'away;
and Carrion was obliged to admit he had set out ori,
the 30th ; he asserted, that he went alone, after hay..
ing passed the morning in making some restitutions'
to his comrades; that he had not accortspanied 80.
nasseau ; that, following the instrudisons of his
route, he went to sleep at Claic, at an Inn, the de.
scription of which he gave. This description' was
found to be exad, by thc testimony of the masters
of the Inn, who were summoned to attend; but they
&dared they could recoiled nothing of Cardon for
'the last five months.