Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-01
The VFrencIl. Judge and the Cul-
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AZ trial took place at Tours lately, whic
illustrstesinaremarkable degree the Frenc
judicial system of interrogation. Thenam
of the prisoner was Maurice, and he sha
only returned from Cayenne few months
lie was tried on charges Of robbery an
murder, and during the proceedings the fol
between the President of the Court and tn
prisoner. ..,,,-- -,
President, Maurice, stand up, and try AM
answer the questi0nsiI ami about to put, 81
that the Jury mayghear you. You are al
\ Iillegitimatech
! Prisoner, 1adiiferently). Why, yes; so i
President. THAT is 4 misfortune, no doubt
But you were taught to live and conduct
yourself as an honest man; and yet / SEE
from the information that. has been collect
ed about you that already, before 1852, you
had been prosecuted and convicted several
times. With, you evil instincts were preco-
/, ciously developed, and before your sentence
to ten years hard labor see you were inn
plicated in o case of robbery VIZ h violence
which even thenlepabled one to anticipate
what you would become. at Q, later period.I-
4 But you were acquitted on that charge
therefore, ! will say no more about it, but
come at once to theso0nviction which led to
your transportation. to, Cayenne. On the
9th of May, 1852, when you were acquitted
on the charge of robbery, you were set al
liberty. What did you'adlon the nextsday,
May 10?
Prisoner. Well, i committed robbery.
President. Yes; and for that robbery the
Court of Blois sentenced you to ten years
hard labor. You understand your sentence
at Cayenne. Is that true?
- Prisoner. Yes. f z. - -r.Tr
- President. On the 18th of April, 1858 YOU
returned to France opsboard the Amazon
frigate, together with a hundred and fifty
other liberated convicts. On that day you
landed at TOulon, where you received a
passport and some money for your wants
on the road Is all that true? +
Prisoner. sYes-@, ~, n r.
President. Among all those, men, dis
seminated all over France, we have our eye
on four, and we find that at the end of May
they arrived in Touraine. You, one of the
four, chose Blois' for your residence, and
then went to the VILLAGE of Melande. Isall
this true?
FF:Sss FFs.Issat. ri;s xil,rr.. you Wandered Ana
about the country. Where did you 60?
Prisoner. To Autriehe. /,
President. What did you do there?
Prisoner. had myself shaved.
President. Did you not say Something to
the barber with laugh?
Prisoner. Nothing.
President. You did tell him with laugh,
and now it makes one shudder to think of
it, 'Will you cut my throat fbr me ?" You
had round your neck a colarea handkerchief,
which the barber took notice of.
Prisoner. When he shaved me had Moth
ing round my neck. =,
President. When you went did you not
put question, to him? ,
Prisoner. Iasked him where Icould buy
some tobaccoo.
President. That is correct. 1t was half
past nine when you entered the tobacco
shop. What did you purehase? I"
Prisoner. Tobacco.
4 Bresident.4 You purchased three thipgsis
ltpbhoa9 q haifpefniy' pipe and a. box Of
luc1fer' ,uNc5ciles with IIAhe- tops.
PFis0nsr ibSOught no and got the
President. THERE'S evidence of your buy
ing the pipe. A boy who CHANGED to be in
the shop saw you selecting it; and as for
the box of matches, the shopkeeper has
described 1t so as to set any doubts as to
his memory at rest. Afterwards you went
to an inn.
Prisoner, Yes, and bought eight sous
worth'of brandy. ~ '@-'
President. The landlady says that when
you went into her bar-room you had round
your neck q cotton handkerchief with red,
blue, and green squares. That handker-
chief is that on the table before you. Cen
tlemen of the. jury, that handkerchief has
been soaked in blood, and the colors are
therefore q little furnished. At half past
4. in, ba hanlat nf Tim
zey.g Now, there is only q short distance
from that place to Autriche- barely four
thousand meters. What did you do from
the time you left the. inn until the after
nonn2 $ts9 Er.B4.iiap-ci- i1lt.
Prisoner turns pale, and does not reply.
Y President. Come, let us know what you
spent your time in, What did YOU dol? g
Prisoner, (indifferently.) LAY down on
the grass and slept. II e,g,L gll tos9
President. You did nothing else?
Prisoner. Nothing. 80 y. .5'55.s
President. Now will tell you what you
did: Between half past nine in the morn,
inc and three in the afternoon hideous
crime was committed. About two o'clock
a man called Morier, who was at work in
yineyard near the house of an old man Of
'seyenty-five, named Barillault, thought he
heard cry of distress. He listens, and hears
nothing more. Profound sensation in
COURT A little later little girl enters the
courtyard of Barillault, to whom she was
bringing some milk. She calls him, and gets
no answer. She then goes further into
the yard, and sees him stretched lifeless.-
Shells frightened, runs away, and calls
to Morier. This latter then recollects the
cries he has s!heard, and a sickening presents
meft comes over him. He runs to the
house and finds the unfortunate old man
thrown lifeless on his dunghil, His body
was fearfully gashed, and he.was horribly
disfigured. One of his ears was torn from
his head, and on his mouth was the impress
sion of a hand that had closed it 30 violently
that several Of his teeth were broken. A
ishudder goes through the COURT Round
| his neck was a EyttQn handkerchief with
tsauares.g Close to- the corpse was broken
crutch, and fragments of pipe and lucifer
matches. A little further was lucife1
matchbox. Inside the house q cupboard
thad been broken open, and all 1t contained
was turned upside down. AL the money
lhad been abstraoted, including two very re-
lmarkable COINS one tearing date of 1884