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e!ip had to the ceo.chisioit (la t• a man v, ho had
b en for six years a f4ithful se, s ant a as the murderer el
her husband.
A labourer wlort.thaci wanted to purchao! wood. from
M. Cornier, was next•esamined.—On the morning of
the 10th, he saw Louis Frimont, but they could not
agree about the peke. Frimont stood nut for two francs,
a .d would not come down. He got into a passion about
I.:s master, whom he called a wretch and a brigand, and
added, " Ile will 'pay for it sooner than he imagines."
The prisoner denied having used this language.
After some other important depositions the Court adjourned.
SEPTEMBER 2.—Pierre Dubois, the carman of M.
Courier, was examinOd : in accounting for his time, no
the 17th April, he asserted that he had not quitted his
father and his brother. The alibi proved by the Dubois
family was the only circumstance which obtained the
two brothers' liberty, for till then suspicion had weighed
very heavily against them, on account of an ill feeling
e.hich existed betwei n Pierre Dubois and M. Courier.
The day that M. Courier sent him from the Charoaniere,
a lively altercation was overheard by his daughter Jane,
during which NI. Courier excl limed " What, threrten
n.e in my own house? get you gone, and thank your
stars that I do not place you in the custody of the gen-
elarreet i-." One night Pierre accompanied the accuses,
Lout., Frimont, as tar as the Chouoirsilere. and the latter
Hying informed his master that Pi• ere bad conducted
him thither, M. Courier armed himself with a gun, and
went into the court-yard ; Ire did nut, however, meet
ssith Pierre. A great number of witnesses deposed to
haviog seen' 'the Dubois, brothers, at different periods
f the 17th April. One of them, Bole, said, that Pierre
Dubois, on seeing M. Courier in the distance, had said,
`• lI he were to loss_ his head, we should be all the hap-
pi:r for it, and I ant sore it would improve his !wk."—
This was
.denied by Pierre Dubois.
SEPTEMBER 3.—Six days before the murd-r, Mar:in
li isson rnet a nian in the forest, who said to him, that
M. Courier was a villain, and deserved to have his wood
burnt and hi, brains knocked out. Madame Courier
said, that the only person she sespeeted was L-uis Fri-
mont. On t; e prisoner being asked if Me could attri-
bute this suspicion of Madame to anything ? he replied,
he had been employed by his master to watch Madame,
who was suspected by him of being too familiar with
Pierre Dahois, the carman.—The President asked
Madame Courier if she did not derive any clue from
the'desctiot ion given by Brisson of the pet son he met in
t'te woad ? she replied that that clue led them to sus-
pect persans of some importance, who must have em-
ployed Frimont as their agent.
The Procureur da Roi explained this evidence, by
observing that Madame Courier coincided in the opi-
nion formed on 'Change, at Paris, that the murder had'
been Committed at the instigation of the Jesuits. Two
females were called for the defence, who said that they
saw, a few minutes before the murder, a man dressed in
blue enter the wood, armed with a gun; the first thought
the man too tall for Frimont; the second knew Fri-
mont, and was positive that it was not he.
The Procureur du Roi then went through the whole
of the evidence, and in the course of his speech appeared
to abandon the point Qf premeditation. "lk sure," said
lie, addressing himself to the Jury, " that whatever your
decision may te, the murderer of M. Courier will not
AO unpunished:.
M. Fain]) ux, Counsel for the defence, then ad-
dressed the Jury. He observed that the prisoner could
not possibly have any motive for the commission of such
a crime. In remarking on the evidence of Madame
Courier, I e observed, that if the eye of justice had
rested on a relation whom she was anxious to save, he
could have understood the manner in which she had de-
livered her evidence, but no such motive was apparent
in this case. The conclusion of the junior Counsel's
address was in the fol:owing words:—" M. Courier has
left a it •me dear to letters, and his fame will but be
coitested when time shall have silenced the zavils of
parties and the passions of politics. He was an author
in whose compositions may be found the irony.of Vol-
taire joined to the vivacity of Pascal=the simplicity of
Amiot united with the naivete of La Fontaine. This
man, so praiseworthy for his private life, has fallen
under the dagger of an assassin ; may blood so pure be
syeedily revenged. ' May the Public Minister one day hit
tipon the real culprit! And may Heaven preserve me
from the misfortune of ever advocating his cause!"
The Procureur du Roi observed, that it was impro-
per in a Royal Court to enter into an eulogiom of the'
works of M. Courier, as they chiefly consisted of poll.,
tical pamphlets, most of which had been condemned
by the Tribunal.
After the President had summed up, the following
question was put to the Jury—" Is. Louis Frimont
guilty of voluntarily, and by premeditation, murdering
Paul Louis Cent*, on the 17th of last April ?" Alter
half an hour's consultation, the Jury returned an unani-
mous verdict of Ant Cuing. Time prisoner heard the
verdict with the same indifference which he manifested
throughout the trial, and was set at liberty.

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