The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-01
The Trial OF the Count and Countess dc
BOcarme continued.

The Trial Of the Count and Countess dc
BOcarme continued.
The trial resumed on Saturday, the 7th inst.
IDLE. de Dudzeele, to whom the deceased was to
have been married, was first called. She was q
good deal agitated. She said that the marriage
was resolved on in August last anonymous letters
against her were written to M. Gustave Fougnies.
This led to GOODNESS between them, and explana-
tons given after which reconciliation
effected, and the marriage was fixed for November.
Deceased had told her that his sister and brother
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
accept any presents sent from it. He had also told
witness that his father on his death had declar I'd
that he had been poisoned by the people at the cha
teau. On the 2lst of November, witness received q
ths had ded sSdssy witness s
ceived anonymous letters against Gustave; one OF
them stated that he had several illegitimate chill
dren; they appeared to have been written 6y the
person who wrote the an onymous letters to him.
Three other witnesses then severally depOsed that
they were at the chateau on the 2lst of November,
and saw the body Of the deceased Their evidence,
however, was not of much Importance.
gendarme, named Lambert, said that in the
prison the count had told him that his wife had
poured the poison into deceasd's 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
parations. The witness stated number of other
circumstances, but they either had no bearing on
the case, had been related by preceding wit
nesses.
One of the judges having become indisposed, an
adjournment took place to Monday During the
whole day, and especially whilst the evidence of the
gamekeeper was being gvens Madame dc Bocarme
The court re- assembled on Monday, and pro-
ceeded to hear the evidence of NJ Stas, professor
Of chemistry at the Ecoe Miltaire, living at Icees
IA AZ a. r. 49, 20 -:
ments, he had as:ertained, beyond all doubt, that
deceased had been poisoned by nicotine and that he
has succeeded in extracting not inconsiderable
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 BitremOn, witness had also discovered traces Of
the same poison. He had likewise found nicotine
in the partially putr6ed remains of the gray and
other animals which the count was accused OF hav-
ing poisoned. He had tasted the poison extracted
from deceased, and it burned the tongue like red
small quantity of it. It was the conviction of wit.
ness that the poison had been given to deceased
when he was lying on the floor he did not think it
could have been poured into the glasses by mistake
without its strong smell causing it to observed lie
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.
A witness then deposed to having taken con-
siderable quantity of tobacco to the chateau, and
laborer, named Debliquy, stated that he had as
sisted the count in making nicotine and other che
mica operations
The court then adjourned.
The Countess de BOcarmc was so affected at the
details of the chemical operations on the person of
deceased, ms de by M. 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 &C
counts were received. According to Galignani, in
the sitting of the court on day, DIR. Zoude,
physician of Tourney, deposed that he had exam.
ined the body OF the deceased in the chateau of
Btremont On the 22d Move nber, and had been
struck by the bruises and tches the face and
by the burnDgs, by what appeared to be sulphuric
acid, about the mouth. He had afterwards made
an examination of the tongue, stomach, and other
parts Of deceaseds person, and the result at which
he had arrived that deceased had been poisoned,
and that the poison had been forcbly administered
when he was in a horizontal position. lie had also
examined Count dc Bocarmc, and had noticed
scratches on his hand and that marks OF bite
were on one OF his fingers.
In answer to the advocate Of the female prisoner
witness stated that it was possible, as deceased was
a weak man, with only one leg, that the poison had
been forcibly 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 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 that death had been
caused by poison forcibly administered when de-
ceased was lying on the ground. Witness had never
observed that the countess had shown much affec-
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 the effect that she
had always shown affection to her brother and that
Immediately after being arrested, she, whilst weep
ing bitterly, had said that it was her husband who
had knocked down deceased, and forced the poison
into his mouth
The Procureur du Roi then proceeded to pre-
I sept 10 he bv m ark on
the enormity Of the crime, aud maintained that il
had long been premeditated by both the accused
He denounced the count a vile swindler and
cheat, as IN infamous de6duths, a brutal coward
and as a monstrous hypocrite; and his wife as a
vaD frivolous creature, without real affection for
any one. lie then entered into elaborate exa-
minaion Of the facts of the case, an argued that
they fully proved the cool and deliberate perpetra
ton of carefully planned murder by both the ac-
cuscd. The Procureur du Ro had not concluded
when the Court rose.