The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-18

prefect of police, the procureur-general the kings
procureur and the commissaries of police the
man explained by signs that he was the a5sas-
SIN and confessed that his name was GIrard
the name found on some receipts for rent which
had been discovered to belong to him. He was
then handed over to l)r. Marjolln and DR.. Ollt-
vier dangers, and about two o'clock taken to
the ConCiergerle.
The Indignation at the hideous fanaticism,
the bloodthirsty vanity of such q patriot as
Girard, aud all who instgated or aided him,
the king represented, however imperlectly,
peace, order, and prosperity, and that without
him anarchy and murder must reign supreme.
The National Guards, who that very morning
had been SO cold and silent, were now loud aud
enthusiastic in their cheers, and as the king
rode mOurniully back to the Tuierias, shakos
waved on thousands OF bayonets, and the "Vive
lie Roll" ran dealening from street to street.
The Bourbonists, who had declared that the
Duke de Berry died stabbed by GuiZot and De-
caze's liberal ideas, were now told that the
Duchess de Berry's party had melted tins MUIR
der. Party spirit, often dishonest, was now
atrociously so. Each party tried by every mean
and dishonorable SHIFT to throw the odium of
the crime upon its adversarIes. In letter to
Marshal Lobau, the king spoke omnously of
the murder:-
"F1enchmeD," )" the king wrote, 'the National
Guard ana the army are mourning; trench
families are sorrOwing. A frghtlul spectacle
has lacerated every heart An old warrior, an
old friend, spared by the fire of a hundred bat
ties, has fallen by my side, struck by the blog
that the assassin destined Tor me. In their
desire to reach me, they have inundated glory,
honor, and patriotism, peaceful citizens,
women, and children; yes, Paris has seen her
best blood shed in the same spot aud on the
same DAY ON which 1T was poured five years
ago to maintain the laws of the country" The
very day OF the attempt the Chamber of Peers
was organized as q court OF justice to try the
conspirators, under the presidency OF Baron
Pasquier.
Glrard was twice examined the day of the
massacre, first at No. co. then in the Concier-
gerie. At first faint and bleeding, he could
only feeblY hold up his fingers in reply to the
questions. He implied that he was alone in the
Plot; that he had been for weeks making the
internal machine; that it was his own idea
alone. He then fell back fainting. No more
could at that time be got out of him.
In the evening, bandaged and slightly stronger
he confessed that he had had accomplices, but
declared that he alone held the blind up and
fired the train. He was a republican. The
agony OF his wounds then compelled the doctors
TO forbid the wretch being tortured by further
questions. The next morning the man was
better, and could speak. He said his name was
Joseph Francis Girard, and his wife and child
were at Lodeve, near Montpelier He was
thirty-nine years of age. The judge represent
ing the enormity of the crime, Glrard cried,
with broken words:-
II am an unfortunate man. am miserable.
can hope for nothing. may render a service.
We shall see. | regret what l have done.
may perhaps stop something. / will name no
one, Iwill sell no one. My crime has been too
newspapers Lad excited him to the crime. He
spoke of the emeutes in the Rue Transnanan
and at Lyons.
1t was still doubtful whether Girard had really
had accomplices. One man declared he had seen
three persons at the window, and others imagined
they saw conspirators escaping over the roof
towards the Rue des Fosses du Temple. The
portmanteau that contained the gun-barrels
1t had been brought to Grard three or four
days before the crime, and Girard said it
came from his wife, and contained linen and
brandy. A waterman at the cabriolet stand in
the Rue Vendome had carried it from the corner
OF the Rue Chariot to No. 90 in the Temple
boulevard. 1t was wooden trunk, four feet
long, covered with black skin, and very heavy.
A commissioner was also found who, on the
morning of the 2Sth of July, had brought the
trunk back from No. to the Place Vendome.
The cabman he had ordered to drive to the
Place Maubert; but on the way he changed the
order to the Place aux VeauX, near the Port
aux Tuiles. A coopers boy had helped him to
put the box on his shoulder, and he walked
towards the Rue Saint Victor. There the clew
was lost, for Girard himself refused to say
where he had taken the trunk; but it was dis
covered that he had taken the trunk to a mar
be-worker named holland, No. IL Rue de
Poissy. Girard, whom he had only seen once,
came to him with the trunk, telling him if it
was not sent for in an hour not to give 1t up
without an order from NJ. Morey, harness.
maker, No. 90, Rue ST. Victor, who came tor II.
Here was another clew. holland, taken to
the Rue Croulebarbe, pointed to No. 10, at the
corner of the Rue de Chant de PAlouette. The
scent got hotter. The people there remembered
hollands friend, Corsican, named Fieschi.
short man, with brown beard and hair, and
southern pronunciation. He had lived an in
famous life with woman named Petit who
had young daughter with one eye, since living
III the SalpetTiere. He had been the terror of
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demnation before military tribunal. The
judges eyes sparkled. This was the man. Mol
land being taken to the prison, at once recognized
Girard as his old neighbor of the Rue Croule-
barbe. Moreys porter identified the fourth
story in No. IL in the Rue du Long Pont as the
place TO which he had taken the trunk. The
police found there young girl with one eye,
named Nina Lassave, Fieschi's last mistress.
The trunk was found in the room; she had
Just written on scrap OF paper her intention
OF killing herself, MOrey having deserted her
after giving her sixty francs to go to Lyons and
hide herself. The trunk had contained Fieschs
clothes and account-books, which she had
pawned. The gunbarrels were identified as
rejected Government barrels, purchased from
NJ. Bury, gunsmith in No. 5S Rue de PArbre
Sec, and pupil in the Temple testified TO Girard
and MOrey buying the trunk found at Nina Las
saves. woman, who had been with Nina to
the review, declared that she returned trembling
and distracted with grief, hearing that the
murderer was killed.
On the 5th of August, Nina confessed the
whole. ION the 26tb, she went to see her
hideous lover, and found him at work at some
machine, as she thought, in the ordinary way of
his trade. Fieschi told her not to come to Paris
during the fetes, as there would be disturbances;
and, II she came he said be would not receive
her. His manner seemed altered, ana he looked
caIeworn. She, however, went the next day, and
the porter told her that Fieschl was then shut
up with his uncle, an old gentleman CMorey)
ana they had given orders that they would see no
one Some minutes after, she saw Morey and
tleschl sitting together drinking beer under the
Ienf OF hon L.,