New-York tribune., 1870-04-14

believe he is too exctabe to know what he says an
| does when he If IN passion. For all that, II was
plain that he had less than justice at the hands OF
the Cont. In the strange scene that took place. and
which resrsed in Fonviee's being shut up in prison
| for ten days frf contempt of court there can be
little doubt that he was grossly belied An officer OF
| the French army, nameu I9uchat was called mp to
testify TO Pierre Bonapartes courage and he set the
the edge-eye 70 natural 10 his family And then,
again, immediately after though everybody laughed
out aloud, he said he has the electric voice and the
eagleeye natural to his family There sat the man
before us, with his little squinny pigs eye always
cast down. and never daring to look anybody in the
face And his electric voice! We had often heard
it in open court, ard had not found it charm
ing nor striking. So, at eage-eye" and electric
voice. conld not help but laugh This made Pierre
the advocates of the other side He charged NJ.
Laurier with laughing at his brave companion in
arms, and declared that if he did not have much
which Lauricr belonged! This was said with rage
that passes description but Laurer did not lose his
temper. He quietly demanded justice of the Court,
the Prince full swing and he burst out again with,
He has attacked my brave comrade" though NJ.
Laurer had not said word in reply to the witness;
the back of the Court on a bench among the wit
nesses, leaped up, and in the most excited manner
cried ont You have assassihatsd ma victor tor No
Say that you have not assassnated Victor Noir You
are cowardly assassin assassin! assassin! You
nothing but an assassin
At the words, Dare to look me in the face u
Bonaparte sprang to his feet, folded his arms like
lightning, and with an absurd attempt at dignity
for his figure does not easily take to dignity-he
stared at FOnvele, who, mounted on his bench con-
tnued to cry out Assassin at the top OF his lungs.
For few moments the scene was one of indescrib-
able confusion and no one could say what was COM
ing next The gendarmes opened the door for Pierre
BOnaparte, who was ready enough to go out, and IN
a short time sort of order was established The
Procureur-G General in cold -bleoded speech, called
fnr hpad Xyh
back the Judge for the first time rebuked him for
his violence declaring that he alone was the cause OF
the that had taken place. But it was plain to
many there that this violence of rebuke was only
cover for the injustice that decided to be done TO
Fonvielle: He was accused and no doubt falsely of
strenlously denied it, and though five or six persons
who stood close to him did not hear him cry mort!
mort H-there being only two persons, and those
gendarmcs who said he did say it-yet he was con-
demned to ten days Imprisonment; and both Grand
perret in his speech, and the Judge in his summing
up insisted upon this exclamation as having been
made refusing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
These things went against the cause of Victor Noir,
and not all the dignity and quiet of RochefOrt, nor
the gentlemanly bearing and evident truthfuness OF
NJ Milliere cOnld counterbalance the insOlence OF
Grousset and the violence of De FOnvielle. l saw
Rochefort for the first time and he made most
agreeable impression upon me, an impression gene,
his name he gave it with quiet dignity Victor Henri
ROchefort de Lucay, and called himself the Deputy
of the First Circumscrption Of the Seine Called to
take heed of Pierre BOnaparte, because he was an
" affreuse canaille" "a dreadful blackguard,' he
quietly answered that he had to tell the truth
the W hole truth, nothing but the truth and that
what he said was part of the truth. When he went
to his seat, which, by the way, was among the Jour
naliss, he went eisurely stopping qnietly to shake
hands with Floquet and laurer, and with all who put
out hand lady sent him bouquet OF violets, and
he put it in his hole then quietly took his seat
but not long after sent up request to the Presiding
very well. There had really not been much gained
by his coming but at least he had the relief of few
bf bff66s the nnn murderer 9t rei1of Of Victor Sor:
The most affecting scene that TOOK pace IN tle
Court, was the appearance of Madame Lonis Nor
on the stand She was called to testify to the mood
of mind in which Victor went on his fatal erIand,
and also with regard to the condition of his gloves
when she saw them his dead body. The poor
young lady, who gave her testimony In the most
simple honest way, with broken voice between sobs
and stealing tears described in the most touching
terms the cheerful when Victor dressed In the
clothes he had bought to be married IN, and trying
to button his new gloves, saying to hls
sister and hand to his betrohed and went OIL gaily
on his errand. Then she described how in two |
hours, they brought him back dead. In the evening,
she asked those about her how the trouble came |
about and they told her that the Prince SAID victor
had given him blow went to ms oody sT tbse sne
unbroken, unstained, as clean and tightly lifting |
bnttoned as had seen them in the morning, knew
the Prince had edw As she said this she pointed her
finger at the Prince ana iOOkeu hh III le iace' puV
of course, as you know, the whole case turned
the evidence b as V st cetany Il was not
proved 1t is true that the evidence seemed conflict
ing, but a half hour of good English OF American
cross-ex examination would have shown much OF the |
evidence to be worthless. This is not the place to
examine it, but was painfully struck with the char
actcr of the evidence. Those. who swore to seeing
the marks of the blow were the intimate friends and
the medical adviser of the Prince, and the Commis
sare of Police But the testimony of these persons
was not sifed, and am sure it needed IT. The Chief
n. IN hn aNAnr
the blow gave no precise testimony as to where II
was while DR.. Pinet declared that the Prince told
him there was no blow, and refused rather abruptly
to let him look at his face. The other witnesses
swore To the blows being Of colors that are lmpossl-
be as it is known that blow has what we may call
its spectroscope and goes through certain dehnlte
changes IF color In my opinion, Laurler dld well 10
laugh at this pretense of blow, and to call II
myth Yet, strange as Il may seem, there was no
expert called up, to sft this evidence and show
whether it was 1kely that cheek could turn blue,
black, green and yellow all within two hours to say
nothing Of its suddenly disappearing within that
time to return again a few minutes later!
But Frenchmen will do best to be silent on this
judgment. When one lives in a country where such
men Pierre Bonaparte are princes and such men s
Glauday judges the less Dragging about the glory OF
France and the nferiority of other countries the
better Pierre BOnaparte is acquitted and the Nors
to pay the 0f bsss ne s
of the murderer of their and BROTHER and II is
true that by sort of ete de cacet the murderer Is
banshed from France. But in the eye OF ihe law ne
is no less an innocent man. and the NOirs have done
him cruel wrong in charging him with the CRIME OF
murder. Thank heaven the law which the lackeys
of the Second Empire deal out not hkely 10 DE con-
NAV be allowed to believe that Perre BonaparIe Is
not acquitted, but that his name is written among
tha tribe of Gain &C.
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