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whole-of- the property. Heat frs,
opposed the entrance of the visitors with
great stubbornness but assistance being
procured. ne was overcome, fettered, and
placed in custody. According to the
French fashion, he was severely ques
toned as to his mode of life and his ex-
perience of De Vernelle, but this was
completely in vain i: he remained as
silent and sullen as if he had been deal
and dumb. This mans name was Roua,
Gault. -
The searching of the house occun;ed
some time, and proved labor of much
difficulty, for Roual refused to disclose
the place where the keys were kept, and,
IN consequence, several strong doors,
hrmly secured by locks and bolts, had to
oe forced. Nothing of any Importance
was found until most minute examina
ton discovered a secret cupboard or
g safe" in the wall of q room which APP
peared to have served as cabinet du ira
UmI. 1t was large, and the unusual size
Of the door, and the skilful manner in
which it was placed in the wall, would
have deluded all but the most close and
suspicious examination. 1t was divided
into two compartments by wide shelf
Below this shelf was found the hideous
skeleton of large dog, to the bones OF
which large fragments of flesh and hair
were still adhering; and on the shelf was
casket, in which were stored golden
cross, an ancient coin of the time of Louis
VIII, silver tobacco stopper, q number
of English bank notes, besides large
number of odd and curious little articles
Rarely had such mass of the strong
est evidence been discovered against a
suspected man as was presented by the
contents of this caSket. The continuation
of the investigation proved, by means of
various witnesses, that the golden cross
was the property of the late Able Vier
that NJ. Fest IN, at the time of his murder,
was known to have carried in his pocket
coin of Louis VIII and the bank notes
were the identical ones which had been
stolen from Ferrers. Theywere identified
by the numbers, which had been adver-
tlsed at the time Of their loss in the Eng.
llSh and French misrepresentation act
OF Precautlon doubtless deferred De Yer.
nellie from putting them into circulation.
Various other articles were Immediately
recognised by the many witnesses who
came forward as having belonged to par
ties who had been robbed and murdered.
De Vernelle was tried on the various
charges now brought against him. The
trial continued many days, and caused
an immense sensation. Itcame out that,
from his youth, he had been an invete.
rate gamester, and the straits into which
thispassion brought him led him, in the
first instance, to crime. Alexis Bribault,
the notary, was his first victim. The
extraordinary celebrity which immedi-
ately attended this outrage possessed the
perpetrator with spirit of infatuation
and brayado, and he followed it up with
new crimes, as Jack Sheppard would
follow up one successful robbery by others
more and more daring. The morbid
frenzy was at its height ut the time that
LEFT his newly-wedded wife and hur-
RED back to Menterre for the express pur-
pose OF numbering the priest who had Just
pronounced the marriage benediction over
them, and robbing him of the aims and
presents he and his father-in- law had but
an hour before, as it were, bestowed upon
him.
De Vernelle refused to give any expla-
nation as to the position which the man
Roual occupied in regard to him-refused
to answer any questions respecting him,
or to say word about him at all. When
She result of the trial became evident,
however, that strange, Informed and ILL
favored creature seemed to experience an
access of dark heroism for the sake of his
master-avowed himself to have planned
and perpetrated the crimes charged against
them, and that he was the only guilty
party. Upon this, De Vernelle became
wildly animated, praised the findelity of
lie pouore Roual,. and, with reckless,
mad bravado; a popularity of the wretch's
cispositien-proceeded to boast that he
was the planner and perpetrator, and he
alone, of all the murt ers and robberies
which had made the north of France
panic-stricken. a
"A week after the conclusion of the
trial, the two expiated their crimes, lie.
Gally speaking, upon the guillotine.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SHASTA COUNTY.
1tro White Men and Thirteen Chinamen
Murdered by the Indians.-We find the
following account of horrible tragedy
committed by the Indians in the Sacra-
Inento journal: Two white men, one
named Guild, the other Ingalls,, while on
a prospecting tour, in company with
nineteen Cinnamon, were murdered on
McClond's river, twenty miles east of
Pittsburg, Shasta county, by the Indians
They were camped, and fifteen Indians
came into the camp. The white mems
guns were stacked near them. The In
dams appeared friendly at first, tut at a