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THE JEUFOSSE TRIAL.

( Front Galignani's Messenger.)

It may be remembered that a great sensation was
caused last June in Normandy by a gentleman
named Guillot, of Aubevoye, having been shot dead
in the park of a lady of aucient family and consider-
able property named Jeufosse, of St. Aubin-sur-
Gaillon, and the sensation extended to all France,
when shortly after it became known that the game-
keeper of the lady bad been arrested for having fired
the fatal shot, and that she herself and her two sons
had also been taken into custody for having incited
him to do it, and that all four were to be brought
to trial for murder. The trial commenced on Mon-
day morning before the Court of Assizes of the
Eure, sitting at Evreux, and so great was the inte-
rest it excited that the town was filled with the
country gentry and the peasantry from miles
around. The court -was of course crowded to ex-
cess. The prisoners were placed at the bar in a row;
the gamekeeper, whose name is Crepel, occupying
the first place, and Madame de Jeufosse being
plaoed between her two sons. Crepel has a some-
what stern expression of features. Madame de
Jeufosse, an elderly woman' hat good features,
with black eyes and hair, and a pale complexion,
but her look is severe ; =her elder son is rather
stout, and not very good looking ; the younger
hai a pleasing face with very fine eyes, and is of
gentlemanly bearing. M. Berryer appeared as
counsel for Madame de Jeufosse and her two sons,
and M. Deschamps, of the bar of Rouen' for the
gamekeeper. Madame Guillot;--widow of the vic-
tim, a young woman, dressed in deep mourning,
was present ; she appeared borne down by sorrow.
In answer to the usual questions, Crepel said that
be was 44 years of age, and lived at St. Aubin-sur-
Gaillon • Madame de Jeufosse said she was 48
years old, was a landowner, and resided at the
chateau of Jeufosse, in that village : the other two
prisoners said that their respective names were Er-
nest and Albert, their ages 25 and 22, their place
of residence Rue Papillon, Paris, and that they
were both landowners. The indictment, which was
then read, was to the following effect :—On the
12th June, at about half-past ten at night, a shot
was fired in the grounds of the chateau of Jeu-
fosse, and a man struck by eight slugs fell to the
ground dying. The person who fired the shot was
Crepel, gamekeeper to Madame de Jeufosse, and
the other was Emile Guillot, a man residing at the
neighbouring village of Aubevoye. Crepel, on the
watch :behind a fir tree, was enabled to see without
being seen, had perceived Guillot approach the tree,
place a letter between two bricks at the foot of it,
and than retire towards a clump of shrubs at the
distance of about 26 yards ; but before Guillot had
reached the shrubs, Crepe), raising his gun, and
taking aim at him, cried out " [rah !" and then
pulling the trigger exclaimed, "You are dead !" He
immediately went to the chateau, and after a long
convorsation with Madame de Jeufosse in her pri-
vate apartment, to which he gained access by a side
door, returned to his own house. Guillot, who was
left writhing on the ground in agony, cried to his
servant Gros, who had accompanied him, and who
had remained outside the park wall, " Ah ! my
friend Gros, come to me lam dying !" Gros,
though rather afraid of being shot, entered the
grounds by a gate at some distance, and going up
to the kitchen of the chateau knocked at the door ;
but though two female servants were in it, they did
not answer. He then called the coachman, and
whilst that man was lighting a lamp, he went to
the spat where his master was lying ; he found
him rolling in the dust, and Guillot on recognising
him gasped put, " They are cowards I And yet I,
am not a bad man It is Crepel, the gamekeeper,
who killed me ; you !nay say so I Ask my wife
and my children to pardon me ; say adieu to my
friends 1" Half-an-hour after Guillot expired ;
but neither a physician nor a priest was sent for,
nor did any of the/servants of the chateau come
out to him. And the next morning, when the
authorities went to inquire into the affair, they
found his dead body lying where he was killed.
The indictment then wont on to state the
motives which had actuated the different pri-
soners :—Mme. de Jeufosso is the widow of an
ollieer of cavalry, who died 10 years ago, leaving
her with two sons and a daughter, Blanche, the
latter now 19 years of age. The two sons some
time back went to Paris, and embarked in Bourse
speculations which were not successful ; Blanche
remained with her mother, and in 1856 a young
lady named Laurence Thouzery, 20 years of age,
was engaged as governess or rather companion to
her. Guillot resided with his family at Aubevoye,
and had an income of from 20,000 f. to 25,000 i
a-year. As he spent his money freely and was very
charitable, he was muchliked in the neighbourhood;
but he was of rather loose morals, and was impru-
dent in his talk. In 1855, the two families by
means of a mutual friend became acquainted, and
the acquaintance soon ripened into intimacy. In
the course of 1856, the families met not fewer
than 106 times, and Guillot constantly invited the
two young men to his shooting patties, and even
lent them money. The friends of Madame de Jeu-
fosse hinted to her that from his loose morality,
Guillot was not exactly a proper person to be ad-
mitted to her intimacy, but she paid no attention
to what was said. No sooner had Mlle. Laurence
Thouzery taken up her residence at the chateau
than Guillot began making love to her, and Ma-
came de Jeufosse was
.in time told of this ; but
she did nothing, and continued to frequent the
Guillote as before. About the middle of 1856,
Guillot ceased to occupy himself with the gover-
ness, and began to pay attention to Mlle. Blanche,
and as he was often for hours at a time engaged
in playing the piano with her, ho had abundant
opportunity of addressing her in terms of gallantry,
Blanche did not tell her mother or any one of
what passed between her and Guillot ; but she
became absent in her manner and agitated, and
often in the evening left the table before dinner
was over to go, on different pretexts, into the
grounds. Mme. de Jeufosse perceived this change
of manner in her daughter, and Mlle. Thouzery re-
vealed to her the cause of it. On this she conceived
a sudden animosity against Guillot, and broke off
all relations with him and his family. Guillot was
galled at the rupture, and acted in a strange way.
He frequently went into a wood which commanded
a view of the park of Jeufosse, and there blew a
French horn ; he threw himself in the way of the
Jeufosses in their walks and drives, and entered
their grounds at night. He not only made no at-
tempt to disguise his nocturnal visits, but was him-
self accompanied in them by his servant, and talked
of them to his friends. The servants of the chateau
knew of them, and one night they, for amusement,
pursued him from tree to tree, he calling to them
in jest as they did so. But when Mme. de Jeufosse
heard of these doings she was extremely indignant,
and manifested great displeasure against Guillot.
Her friends, thinking that it was after Mlle. Thou-
zery that uillot came, advised her to dismiss that
person, but she refused. Crepel recommended her
to procure the assistance of the gendarmerie, but
that also she refused to do. Her anger against
Garnet became at last so great that one day, iu
presence of all her servants, she said, pointing to a
gun, " Is there not one amongst you who has the
courage to free me of such a man?" and addressing
herself especially to Crepel, she told him to keep a
good watch, and said to him several times, "Fire, if
you see any one. Don't be afraid, for even if you
should kill, nothing will happen to you. I have the
right to fire on my own grounds." Her two sons
shared her sentiments, and associated themselves
in her projects. On the 17th March last, Ernest de
Jeufosse, the elder, wrote to Guillot a menacing
letter, which, however, Madame Guillot inter-
cepted :—" I hear that the grounds at Jonfosse are
haunted by ghosts. . I warn you that I have given
orders that they shall be fired at, and have pro-
mised a reward to those who' shall hit them !"
Ernest also wrote a letter to Crepel, which has not
been preserved, but which said :—" I fear that
some one hangs about the chateau of a night. You
neglect your duty in not preventing that ; you
should give a good peppering to the man who does
it. If I were on the spot I would do so, and you
ought to replace me." On the 19th May an inter-
view was appointed to take place between Ernest
de Jeufosse and Guillot, at the house of a relative
of the latter, and in presence of a mutual friend.
Ernest breakfasted at a notary's at Gaillon, and
took too much to drink. On the way to the meet-
ing he more than once fell off his horse, and he
cried out, "If it be after Laurence (the go-
verness) that Guillot comes, there shall be a duel ;
but if it be after my sister, he shall be killed !" To
this the gentleman who accompanied him, M.
Duhaze, answered, "A gentleman fights a duel, but
assassinates no one 1" What occurred at the inter-
view is not stated. As to Alfred de Jeufosse, he
was not inactive, in April he passed some time at
the chateau, and each night he watched in the
grounds himself. On leaving he said to Crepel,
"Be on the alert. Do not be afraid—do what I
should do myself—fire at the man you seer From
these circumstances, the indictment alleged that all
the family of Jeufosse, with the exception of
Blanche, were resolved, whilst taking care to incur
no risk themselves, to cause the death of Guillot.