The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-05-15

know, are innocent of the murder; but
how came your ape to perpetrate it, and
what were you doing that nightin Madame
PEsparaye's yard You were more than
once heard to cry out, cursed devil 7 and
my Godp Already, my friend, as you see,
I know the greater part Of your'story be
reasonable, then, and sit down BY me, and
quietly tell me all about the matter from
the first. II you are open and candid with
me, not a hair Of your head shall be
harmedDA ~
"Sir, as live, am indeed
innocent Of this murder, yet it
has caused me many bad hours.
Twill tell you all. On my last voyage |
brought the Bpe with me from Borneo, eX.
pecHng to sell him here in Paris for a pret'
ty piece of money. But the chance for
that seemed as If it would never come,
Now, on that unlucky night, came home
late-I had been drinking little, strand
found the wooden cage in which Ihad shut
the animal broken oPeS, and the ape, with
his face lathered and my razor In his hand,
standing before the looking scrsping
away, just as he had often seen me when
shaving myself. was little startled; sir,
and made q jump for the whip with which
l had often before brought the brute to
reason. But, making one spring, the ra-
zor still in his hand, he flew through the
window out into the street. More fright
ened than ever, not knowing what might
take place, / hurried after him with the
whip. We ran in this way through seve.
raj streets. They were as If dead, for it
was three o'clock in the morning, when
Paris isasleep Suddenly the ape saw a
light burning in the open back window Of
a house in the Rue Morgue. He sprang
over the low wall, ran swiftly up the
lightning.rod, and swung himself into the
room. heard two women scream out in
wild terTor-then noisy scutfle and
after that it became quieter. Half dead
with fear, also scrambled over the wall,
and far enough up the lightning rod to
see into the room. A terrible sight almost
froze the blood in my veins. The old lady
lay, with her throat gashed and bleeding,
on the floor, and the daughter was alreac
dead-choked to death, sir-in the cru
grasp Of that savage brute. As ssoon as
heard my threatening voice and saw Il
dreaded whip, he Immediately dropped IL
poor dead mademoiselle, and flew arouI
the room, shrieking with terror, and tos
ing and breaking the furniture, and tea
ing the clothes and the beds to piec
Hoping, as it seemed, TO cover up his b
act, he suddenly laid hold on the daughl
and pushed her as far up the chimney
he could. The body Of the old lady
flung with all his strength through I
window, over my head, down into t
! I'd Half ont nf FNNu With bnTT
and fear, slipped to the ground. Ths
hearing the sound of voices in the hou
l fled, full of terror, from the misera
place. How got home l do BOT kno
OF my murderOus ape have since Sc
nothing, Now, sir, you know all do wi
me as you will" ........
This plain story the sailor repeated !
fore the court The frightful mystery
the double murder was at last explsinC
The chimney.sweep, Francois Ramel, W;
as a matter of course, set at liberi
The unpunished and unpunishal
perpetrator of the crime was soon aft
ward captured, almost dead with hung,
in the forest of Versailles, and is to. day
sad celebrity Of the Jdrdin deS PIGatSS,
AS for Ailard, his name was at once
6N6iyDUuy ulOubu L uO dllnAeho w.
amazed at the rare sCuteness. the wondt
fuf faculty Of combination, the quiet {
ergy of this plain, private man. He !
came the hero of the hour The fam
and notorious Vidocq-in his bOyhoo(
thief, in his youth sharper and gale
slave, in his manhood an escaped conVit
and in the service of the police wretc
cd spy, who, in one single year, tresohe
ously betrayed into the grasp Of the la
seven hundred of his former associates -
crime, and who finally became the chief Of
the Paris police this Vidocq had been, a
few years previously, suddenly, and fer
some unexplained reason, dismissed from
service, and was now living paper maker
in Picardy. AS yet, no worthy successor
| had been found for this astute and sharp
witted guardian of the public safety. But
in Allard was discovered one that might
have been Vidocq' master, and Allsrd was
made chief Of the Paris police. And his
subsequent career fully justified the choice,
Once q Month. aa.