The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-14

trofane and greater blasphemer than the
others In other respects, after he was libe-
rated from the balm, M. Caudret, when ques-
toned about the prison, shuddered a. the re-
collection of what he had passed through but
would never enter into particulars. All he
would say was that il was far worse, and in
finitely more fearful, than any man who had
not lived there could imagine.
His Liberation was brought about in This.
way, long after he had given up all hope of
ever being released save by death. At the
palleys of Toulon was convict who had been
sentenced to the trdDduG forces for ten years,
and had undergone nearly the whole of his
sentence when he met with terrible acci-.
dent, by which he was so injured that the
medical men declared he could not live more
than few hours. At first he could not be-
lieve them, but after time, feeling himself
getting worse, he accepted the services of the
chaplain of the prison to prepare him for
death. The chaplain, who was closeted with
him for some time, ended by sending for the
governor, and saying that the prisoner had,
before he died, public statement to make.
In the convict prisons in France similar
event is not uncommon, for the intricacies of
crime are so bound up with one another that
when a criminal dies he discloses some mys-
tery connected with his former life Such
was the case with this man. When the gov
ernor and the proper attesting persons had
assembled round his death-bed in the mfr
mary, he declared himself to have perpe-
trated, twenty-five years before, the murder
of a woman in the hospice of village not far
from Lyons, for which the cure of the PLACE
had been tried, found guilty, and condemned.
He gave full details as to how the murder had
been committed, and how, in order to divert
suspicion, he had entered the cures bed
room by the window, taken his Shoes
walked in them to the hospice and
back, making the footmarks as plain as
possible and had also taken with him the
Corsican dagger which he found in his study
Being himself at that time under police sur
veillance and afraid that he would be inn
prisoned unless the scent was thrown upon
another person, he smeared the knife in the
blood of his victim, so as to make people be-
lieve she had been murdered by that weapon
He--the murderer-it was who had taken the
priests handkerchief, which he found on the
study floor, and had put it into the dead wo-
mans mouth, as if it had been used for gag.
In short, after his deposition had been for
warded to the proper authorities, it was
thought to be so truthful that formal in
quiry was made, the judgment given quarter
of q century before was reversed, and the
doors of his internal prison, greatly to his
surprise, were thrown open for NJ Caudret.
When this unfortunate man was declared
innocent and set at liberty, his bishop offered
to give him charge of parish. But, although
grateful for the kindness, he could not be
prevailed upon again to take upon himself
the duties of his calling. He said that the
twenty-five years residence at the bans had
been such a pollution to his very soul, and
that his body was so weakened and his
whole nervous system SO overset,
that he was not fit to resume his functions
At the representation of the bishop an
allowance q of
by Government, and he retired to the small
town where met him, and where, after living
for many years most holy life, he died in
peace some six or seven years ago. The
French people have sort Of instructive hor-
ror of any and every person-whether inno-
cent or guilty-that has ever been connected
with the 6dilS, and this was the reason Why
they would not answer me about Pere Fran
co.'s until they knew me better. l question
whether any one ever suffered more from
false circumstantial evidence than did this
p oor priest. britannia.