The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-01
The Trial Of the Count and Countess do
H0carme canllnnAd.

The Trial Of the Count and Countess DO
BOcarme continued.
The trial was resumed on Saturday, the 7th inst.
Mdlle. de Dudzeele, to whom the deceased was to
have been married, was first called. She was a
good deal agitated. She said that the marriage
was esolved on in August last anonymous letters
against her were written to M. Gustavs Fougnes
This led to GOODNESS between them, and explana-
ti0ns were given; after which reconciliation was
effected, and the marriage was fixed for November.
Deceased had told her that his 81 ,ter and brother
in-law were opposed to the projected union. He
suspected the anonymous letters had been written
by them. He was always afraid of eating at the
chateau lest he should be poisoned and would never
accept any presents sent from it, lie had also told
witness that his father his death had declar Cd
that he had been poisoned by the people at the cha
teau. On the 2lst of November, witness received a
message from the chateau, sent by the countess,
that Gustave had died suddenly. Witness had re-
ceived anonymous letters against Gustave; one of
them stated that he had several Legitimate chill
dren they appeared to have been written by the
person who wrote the an 0nymOus letters to him.
Three other witnesses then severally deposed that
they were at the chateau the 2lst Of November,
and saw the body Of the deceased. Their evidence,
however, was not of much Importance.
A gendarme named Lambert, said that in the
prison the count had told him that his wife had
poured the poison into deceasds glass by mistake.
A man, named Wilb aut, game keeper on the estate
of Bury, deposed that after the death of Gustave
the countess ordered him to go and tell "those two
coquineS," Mdlle. Dudzeele and her mother. The
count, on his return, gave him papers to burn.
Once he m AIDE him taste some of his chemical pre-
parations. The witness stated q number of other
circumstances, but they either had no bearing
the case, or had been related by preceding wit
nesses.
One of the judges having become indsposed, an
adjournment took place to Monday During the
samekeeper was being ss. e de- Bocar% me-
was greatly agitated, and wept great deal.
The court re- assembled on Monday, and pro-
ceeded to hear the evidence of M Stas, professor
of chemistry at the Ecoe Militaire, living at cees
1t was to the effect, that after number of expert
ments, he had as:ertaned, beyond all doubt, that
deceased had been poisoned by nicotine and that he
quantity of that deadly poison from his tongue, sto
mach, liver, and lungs On the clothes of deceased,
and on the floor of the dining-room Of the chateau
of BitremOnt, witness had also discovered traces of
the same poison. He had likewise found nicotine
in the partially putrie of the gray cat and
other animals which the count accused of hav-
ing poisoned. He had tasted the poison extracted
from deceased, and it burned the tongue like red
hot iron; he had also killed birds by excessively
small quantity of it. 1t the conviction of wit
ness that the poison had been given to deceased
could have been poured into the glasses by mistake
without its strong smell causing it to observed. He
further OF opinion that after taking nicotine, it
would be impossible for any one to walk, but he
could not say that they might not cry.
witness then deposed to having taken q
siderable quantity of tobacco to the chateau, and
laborer, named Debliquy, stated that he had
sisted the count in making nicotine and other che
mical operations.
The court then adjourned
The Countess de BOcarmc was so affected at the
details Of the chemical operations the person Of
deceased, ms de by NJ Stas, that she became indis-
posed, and the trial had to be suspended for some
time. DE Bocarme paid great attention to the evil
dence. 1t will be observed hat it tended to de-
stroy his means of defence-viz. that the nicotine
had been pOured out and taken by mistake.
This trial had not terminated when the last
counts were received. According to Galignani, in
the sitting Of the court on Tuesday, Dr. Zoude,
otosnv .s,fF that kn kolA
iDed the body Of the deceased in the chateau of
Bitremont en- the I'D Move mber, and had been
struck by the bruises and scratches the face, and
by the burnipgs by what appeared to be sui phuric
acid, about the mouth. He had afterwards made
an examination of the tongue, stomach, and other
parts Of deeeased's person. and the result az which
he had arrived was that deceased had been poisoned,
and that the poison had been forcibly administered
when he was in horizontal position. lie had also
examined Count dc Bocarmc, and had noticed
scratches on his hand, and that marks OF bite
were Of his fingers.
In answer to the advocate of the female prisoner,
witness stated that it was possible deceased
weak man, with only one leg that the poison had
been forcby administered by only one person. the
person administering it had evidently placed one
knee on him and the other on the ground, and that
was Why n bruise had been noticed on one OF the
counts knees.
DR.. MARQUEE, Of Tourney medical attendant to
deceased, stated that he had also examined the
body, and his opinion was that death had been
caused by poison forcbly administered when de-
ceased was lying on the ground Witness had never
observed that the countess had shown much aiec-
tion for her brother on the contrary, she seemed
very indifferent to him.
-Four Witnesses were then called on behalf Of the
countess their evidence was to the effect that she
had always shown affection to her brother; and that
Immediately after being arrested, she whilst weep
ing bitterly, bad said that il was her husband who
had knocked down deceased, and forced the poison
into his mouth.
The Procureur du Roi then proceeded to pre-
sent his requisitory. He began by rem irking
the enormity Of the crime, aod maintained that it
had long been premedtated by both the accused.
He denounced the count as vile swinder and
cheat, as an infamous debduths, brutal coward,
and as monstrous hypocrite; and his wife as a
vain, frivolous creature, without real affection for
any one. lie then entered into elaborate exa-
minaiion Of the facts of the case, an argued that
they fully proved the cool and deliberate perpcra
ton of n carefully planned murder by both the ac-
cuscd The Procureur du Ro had not concluded
when the Court rose.
M. OrGIa on Nicotine.
From Galigpani's Messenger
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