New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-07
NUMBER 227.
" TARDY JUSTICE;
Or, the Victim Of Circumstantia1 Evidence.

In the year of grace sixteen hundred and
eighty-seyen, Lawrent Guillemott d'Anglade,
lived in a fine house in the Rue Royal, at Paris,
near the Bastile. He and his wife lived in great
style, kept their carriage, played high, talked
necessarily Of their high birth and family es-
they lent occasionally upon good security-and,
on the strength Of their own representations,
obtained entrance into the society Of some Of
the best houses in Paris. For the rest, they
were worthy respectable couple, like hundreds
Of others; their only sin being that they gave
themselves out for being much richer and grand
er than they actually were NJ. d'Anglade be-
ing man Of low birth and very moderate
means. This was the beginning Of all the sor-
rows that afterwards befeI them.
M. d'Anglade and his wife occupied the
greater part Of the house, but as is general In
Paris, there were other inmates. certain Count
and Countess de Montgommeri occupied the
ground floor and the rooms above. The ground
floor consisted Of three rooms, which ali opened
into long corridor, at one end of which Was
the porte cochere of the courtyard, and at the
other staircase leading to the rooms upon the
FIRST floor, where there was small inner closet
or strong room. Here the Count and Countess
kept their money and jewels. The Able Fran
co.'s GagnaFd, the Counts almoner, page, and
vaiet-de-chainbre slept in one of the three
rooms on the ground floor. Another was the
salle- a-manger, and the one which opened from
it served for different purposes.
A friendly acquaintance SOON sprung up be-
tween the d'Anglades and the Montgommeries.
Soon after he entered the house, the Count de
Montgommeri received a large sum Of money,
partly Louise 'ors, some Of which we're quite
new and others au Gordon, or old ones The
remainder Of the money was in thirteen bags,
each bag containing a thousand francs; there
was also l bag containing eleven thousand five
hundred livres in Spanish pistoles. All this
money, together with magnificent pearl neck
Lace, estimated to be worth four thousand
li7res, was secured in strong Golfer, and the
Golfer was carefully placed in the smaller inner
closet we have mentioned. The d'Anglades
knew all this, and had recommended an invest
ment for his money to the Count. One day NJ.
de Montgomneri and his wife agreed to go and
spend few days at their country house Of Vile
Vousin nesr onIHere, and invited their
neighbors, d'Anglades, to accompany them
They accepted the invitation, but subsequently,
| made some frivolous excuse for remaining at
home. The Count and Countess set off on Mon
day, the twenty second Of September, sixteen
hundred and eighty-seyen, and gave out that
they should return the following Thursday
| The almoner Fable Gsgnard, and all the SER
| wants accompanied them, excepta femme de-
| chambre, named Fermenie, and one lacquey.
Four sewing women employed to embroider
some hangings for Madame de Montgommeri,
were also leftin the house; but they were lodged
| in another part Of the building! The key Of
| the outer door Of the room on the first floor was
| confded to the femne-de e-chamhre; the Able
| Gagnard shut and double locked the door of his
room on the ground floor; and the family de-
parted, considering that they had left every
thing secure. This was showing q contempt for
burglars that, under the circumstances, amount.
ed to rashness; and they seem to have thought
| so, for they returned home suddenly, twenty
| four hours earlier than they had intended.
| The Count declared that his mind was troubled
| by the sight Of some drops Of blood which he
found upon q table cloth, and that he determin-
| ed to quit Vile Vousin that moment, having q
| presentiment tnat something had happened
| The Abbe and the servants did not arrive unit
4 after them. }5 $~ Ss
/ The first thing that struck the Able, wa
finding his room door ajar. although, durin
the absence of the count and countess, it ha
seemed to be closed; the Able having doubled
locked it with his own hands, and the key ha
never been out Of his possession. All the SCI
wants remarked the fact also, but at the mt
ment it did not, singular to state, make muc
impression on them. Supper was served to tl
count and countess in the salle-a-manger, an
they were still at table when their neghbol
, | d'Anglade, came home at eleven o'clock, accom-
, panied by the Abbes de Fleury and de Villai
who had supped with him at the house of !
Presidente Robert. Finding the count and eoun
ess were returned, they all went in, and pre-
sently Madame d'Anglade Joined them. Afte
, lively conversation, they all separated for th
night, everything seemed as usual.
, The next morning, the count de Montgommel
discovered that he had been robbed. The loo
of his strong box had been forced, and every
thing it contained had been carried away.
He. of course, made complaint to the lieu
tenant criminal Of the chatelet; who, with tn
procurer du roi and the commissary of police
lost no time in repairing to the spot. On exam
ining they declared the robbery to have beel
committed by some one upon the premises, AMI
decided upon searching the whole house. DAN
glade and his wife requested that their owl
apartments should be the first examined. Stric
scrutiny was made, but nothing could be dis
covered in the rooms they inhabited. The off
GERS proceeded to the attics. Madame DIAN
glade excused herself from accompanying then
upon the plea of sudden faintness Up to tn
attics the officers went, and, concealed in al
old chest, under wearing apparel and hous
linen, they found a rouleau of sixty louis a,
Gordon, wrapped in a printed paper, which tn
Count de Nontgommeri declared was his genoa
logy. He also said that part of the none,
stolen from him consisted of louis au Gordon, o
the years 1856 and 1857.
When d'Anglade was questioned about tn
money, he stammered and could give no accoun
of how he came by it. He seemed in despair
and Madame d'Anglade said that the door Of th
apartment of the Able Gangard had not beel
secured as it ought to have been and she insisted
4 that it should likewise be searched. This wa
done. 1t was found that money had been alb
straeted from five bags, each containing
| thousand livres As the Able Gagnard ha,
double locked the door before his departure an,
never parted with the key out Of his possession
this incident confirmed the suspicion that hat
settled upon d'Anglade and his wife. The lieu
tenant-criminal went so far as to soy to Ang
lade:
Either you or I must have committed tn
robbery"
So convinced was he that he had secured tn
guilty person, that he declared it useless t
waste time in making any further search, espe
cially as the count said ne could answer for tn
honesty of all his servants.
D'Anglade and his wife were taken formail
into custody; their persons were searched, an
seventeen Louis dor and o double pistole, Span
ish money, were found in d'Anglades purse
circumstance which strengthened the suspicion
against him, as part of the money stolen was il
pistoles. 1t came out also that d. Anglade, VIII
was in the habit of supping every night in town
always took the key of the street door-ther
being no regular porter--but, upon the night O.
which the robbery must have been committed
he supped at home, contrary to his usual Gus
tom. This croWning piece of cireumstantia
evidence seemed decisive; seals were placed O.
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