Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-01-12
Tardy Justice;
~ the Victim of Circumstantial Evidence.

Tardy Justice;
Or the Victim of Circumstantial Evidence.
Tn the year of grace sixteen hundred and
e;chty-seven, laurent Guillemott d'Anglade,
lived in fine house in the Rte 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-
tate, appeared to have plenty Of money-whlcn
they lent occasionally upon good security-ah"
on the strength of their own representations,
attained entrance into the society OF some Oh
the best houses in Paris. For the rest, they
we're a worthy respectable couple like hundreds
Of others; their only sin being that they gave
themselves out for being much richer and gran
der than they actually were; NJ q Anglaae De-
inc a man of low birth and very moderate means.
This was the beginning Of all the sorrows that
afterwards befel them.
N. dAnglade and his wife occupied the
creater part of the house, but as is general in
paris. there were other mates A certain
rount and Countess de Montgommeri occupied
the ground floor and the rooms above. The
ground floor consisted of three rooms, which
all opened into q long corridor, at one end OF
Ebich was the porte cochere of the courtyard,
and at the other staircase leading to the rooms
mon the first floor where there was small in
ner closet or strong room. Here the Count ana
Countess kept their money and jewels. The
Able Francois Gagnard the Counts almoner:
page, and valet-de- chambre slep in one OF the
three rooms on the ground-foor. 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.
Gov %l,o &ho q
Moatgommeri received large sum of money,
partly Louis-dors, some of which were quite
new, and others au Gordon, or old ones. The
remainder of the money was in thirteen bags,
each bags containing thousand francs; there
was also one bag containing eleven thousand hive
hundred livres in Spanish pistoles All this
money, together with magnificent pearl neck
lace, estimated to be worth four thousand livres,
was secured in a strong Golfer, and the Golfer
was carefully placed in the smaller inner closet
we have mentioned. The d'Angades knew all
this, and had recommended an investment for
his money to the Count. One day NJ. de Mont
gommcri and his wife agreed to go and spend a
few days at their country house of VillesVousln
near Mon pHere, and invited their neighbors,
d'Anglades, to accompany them. They accept
ed the invitation, but subsequently made some
frivolous excuse for remaining at home The
Count and Countess set off on Monday, the
twenty-second of September, sixtecn-hundred
and eighty-seven, and gave out that they should
return the following Thursday. The almoner
liable Gagnard, and all the servants accompa-
MED them, except a femme de-chAmbre, named
Fermenie, and one laquey. Four sewing wo-
men employed to embroider some hangings for
Madame de Montgommeri, were also left in 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 fem
mc-de- chambre; the Able Gagnard shut and
double locked the door of his room on the ground
floor and the family departed, considering that
they had left every thing secure This was
showing contempt for burglars that uuder the
circumstances amounted 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 the table-coth,
and that he determined to quit Vile Vousin that
moment, having presentiment that something
had happened. The Able and the servants did
not arrive until after them,
The first thing that struck the Able. was fn-
ding his room door ajar, although. during the
absence of the Count aud Countess, it had
seemed to be closed; the Able having doubled
locked it with his own hands, and the key had
wants remarked the fact also, but at the me-
ment it did not, singular to state, make much
impression on them Supper was served to the
Count and Countess in the sale a-manger, and
they were still at table when their neighbor.
dAnglade, came home at eleven clock accom-
panied by the Abbes the Fleury and de Villas,
who had snpped with him at the house of Ia
Presidente Robert. Finding the Count and
Countess were returned, they all went in, and
presently Madame d 'Anglade joined them. At
ter a lively conversation, they all separated for
the night, everything seemed as usual.
The next morning, the Count de Montgom-
meri discovered that he had been robbed. The
lock Of his strong box had been forced, and ey-
erything it contained had been carried away.
He, of course, made a complaint to the lieu-
tenant criminal of the chatelet; who, with the
procureur du roi and the commissary Of police,
lost no time in repairing to the spot. On exam
ining they declared the robbery to have been
committed by some one upon the premises. aud
decided upon searching the whole house. Dan
glade and his wife requested that their own ap-
partments should be the first examined. Strict
scrutiny was made, but nothing could be dis
covered in the rooms they inhabited. The Off
GERS proceeded to the attics. Madam d Anglade
excused herself from accompanying them upon
the plea of sudden faintness. Up to the attics
the OmcefS went, anu, concealed In an oiu cnest,
under wearing apparel and house linen, they
found rouleau Of sixty louis au Gordon, wrap
ped in q printed paper, which the Count de
Montgommeri declared was his genealogy. He
also said that part Of the money stolen from him
consisted Of louis au Gordon, Of the years 1886
and 1857. *a=.,
When d Anglade was questioned about the
money, he stammered and could give no account
Of how he came by it. He seemed in despair,
and MADAME d Anglade said that the door Of the
apartment Of the Able Gangard had not been
secured as it ought to have been, and she in
sisted that it should likewise be searched This
was done. It was found that money had been
distracted from five bags, each containing q
thousand livres. As the Able Gagnard had
double-locked the door before his departure, and
never parted with the key out Of his possession,
this incident confirmed the suspicion that had
settled upon 'Anglade and his wife. The lieu
tenant-criminal went 50 far as to say to Ang-
lade:
Either you or must have committed the
robbery" #f
So convinced was he that he had secured the
guilty person, that he declared it useless to
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