American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-06

seen d Anglade near the door OF tho abbe's
department just before the arrival Of the
dc Montgommeri. Another witness
sworc that he knew d'Anglsde 10 be
gambler, and tha. he had heard the Able
Rouiu call him an old clothes man; aud
this tailed with the fact that he lent mon
eY upon pledges.
Aqolher witness deposod to having
heard that d Anglade had once stolen a
piece Of ribbon, and that, before he came
to live in the Rue Royale, a quantity of
silver plato had suddenly disappeared from
the house where ha logged. Many other
minute facts came out, all tending to deep
on the suspicion against the d'Angladas.
The most damaging eridonce, however,
was gathered from his own replies to the
interrogatories concerning his birth aud
sources ofincome. An evident mystery
surrounded him. He prevarieated in bis
answers. At last it was made clear, that in
stead of being, as he had boasted, gen
teman of high birth and large fortune, his
origin was mean, and his income not more
than two thousand livres, although he liy-
ed expensively, paid for everything in
ready money, and had money to lend out
besides. This at once established him as
chevaler d'nduStrie, and put an end to
the sympaihies of honest men. Added to
all these facts and suspicious, d'Anglade
and his wife contradicled each other, and
there wero discrepancies between their
statements. The case looked very black
against them; but, as the Justice Of those
days would on no oaccount condemn Lris-
oner without giving him every chance of
confessing his doom to be we'll merted,
dAnglade was put to the torture. The
evidence was, after all, only circumstan-
tial, and it would be satisfaction if he
could be made TO confess He was put
first to the torture ordinary; and, as that
brought nothing they proceeded to tho
torture extraordinary, which brought moth.
ing either. As d'Anglade refused to con
fess his guilt, there was nothing to be done
but to condem him without a confession,
(for, of course, justice never fel! mo-
ment's hesitation as to his guilt, and, on
the sixteenth of February 1853, he was
condemned to the galleys for nine years;
his wife was banished from Paris for a
Ike period Also. he was sentenced to
pay fine to the king, to make restitution
of the stolen goods, and TO pag three thou.
5 nd liyres to the count by way of COM
pensation, which required moe than he
had in the world. The FIVE months he
had spent in prison, during which ahe had
| lived on bread and water, without nothing
but damp and rotton straw for bed, had
entirely shattered his constitution. New
erjhelcss, oa being taken from the torture
chamber he was thrown into the darkest
and frightfulest dungeon Of the Montgom-
meri tower, from which he was only re-
moved to be taken--all broken to pieces -
to the Chateau de Ia Joncelle, where he
was attached TO gang Of forcats. He
seemed to be at the point of death; he de-
clared that he was innocent of all knowlede
ofthe robbery, received the last saeraments
with devotion, pardoned his enemies, and
expected death witha composure that might
ariso either from sense OF innocoiico OF
the prospect Of release from intense suffer-
ING. He recovered, however, sufficiently
to depart from the galleys with the rest; bu,
he was obliged to be conveyed ina cart and
two men were employed to lift him down
every evening and lay him upon his bed o.
straw and to lift him again into the car
the next morning. The Cunt de Mont
gommeri, who was terribly afraid tha
| ihc suGerings Of d'Angade might softer
the heart Of justice, or that death NIGH
deprive him of his revenge, was earnes
in his solicitations for the immediate depar
uro old 'Angladeto the galleys, aud station
cd himself upon the road by which h
must pass. in order to feasthis eyes upol
the spectacle of d Anglade's misery.
Upon the forth of March, sixteen hun
drcd and eighty nine, dAnglade died ii
the hospital at Marseiles, four months alte
his arrival at the galleys.
No sooner was d'Anglad5 dead, than a
nonymous letters began to circulate in al
directions, in which the writer declare,
that his conscience would give him n
peace until he declared that NJ. dang
lade was entirely innocent of the robber.
committed upon the Coun. de Montgom
meri, and that the real criminals were on
Vincent alias Belestre, and the Able Gag
nard, alntoner to tie Count. 1t was adde,
that woman named La Combla ceul
give important evidence.
Here was terrible revelation! Th
penitent prosecutor had become horror
struck at the possibility of having bee
the means of subjecting an innoeent ma
to so terrible fate. He ordered certai
Degrais, (thesame who was employed t
persuade the poisoner, Madame de Brin
/ villiers, to leave the convent, where sh
had taken refuge, to make inquiries int
, the life and habits of the party now accus
ed. The result was that Peter Vincent, q
, Belestre, the first named, was discovere
! to be the son of q poor tanner at Mans
He had enlisted as soldier, under tn
name of Belestre, and had risen to the ran
ofsergeant; but had been tried and con
: demned TO the galleys for his. share in IL
assassination of ga miller. This was h
first offence. His later exploits had bee
confined to burglary and highway robber
. After being very poor for a long time, an
a vagabond besides, he had finished b
. purchasing an estate in the neighborhoo
Q Of Mans, for which he had paid ten thou
o and livres. As to the Able Gagnard; h