The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-20

ing. Yes, it 10 true" she said; for athoue
had not spoken, she perceived that had di,
covered her position. 81 cannot earn mor
than n. six sous day by spinning, and when
everything. Tell the baker IS you go by tina
you will answer for us. You shall not los
your money, M Jules, for after all this, we shal
sell the house ont there and pay you the debt
will send you something also to make
soup sor Your pstient, MariOn.m
She looked at her mether-in-law, and said
are. es pause, For MS peasants, it is enough
and nothing more; it will be better for us SO.
As was descesdiDg the dark stairs, 1 heart
me poor crazed mother calling to her children
"Yvonici My Jean Louis r. stopped, listen
ing moment; the voice of the father rose re
citing prayer. Z. =
will not relate the story of the daya tina,
followed, nor all the incidents of the new pro
cess that was in preparation. The death o.
Brossard was but one item in the case of T..
Fridoux and Jean Brien, for they were charged
with two other murders. They persisted
Throughout in insintaining that tho brothers
| the house of M Brossard, that they knew be.
| iorehand she WORK thst was to be done there
and stood by in arms At its performance. .
/ PEELED these allegati0ns with the greatest euer-
~. They asserted that the refractories had
Kept them in complete ignorance of their de.
picion of o crime, they did their utmost to op-
pose 1t and that, even at the moment when
Brossard was struck the first blow, a struggle
| was going on bstween them and the asaassins.
jean Lonis showed the traces Of two consider
able bruises, which he declared had been i'm
| hicted in the contnst but tksy were cared.
bound, and forced 20 be mere powerless specie
dered about with the Others, moro as prisoners
| than as companions, aad threatened with death
on the asst attsmPs ~ csasion. Yvonio related
IN the ful3sss dAsafAs the uiSnnAf Of their escape
which they were enabled to effect during an
alarm, and how they had taken refuge IN q
charcoal burners hut, where the gendarmes
arrested them the next day. This Statement,
in which the brothers never varied, and which
they all gave with the air and tone of truth.
had an immense effect on the mind of the exss
amining magistrate, despite its improbability..
were to be tried at the assizes of Caen in the
Calvados; but they were retained at Vannes
because their presence was necessary In prepar--
ing tho other process. The hope Of arriving at
some discovery which might benefit them was
not Abandoned. The Kings attorney had in
spired the whole court, and may add all the
town, with his own solicitude. Il was nener-
into account the condemnation Of Lie Pridoux
and Jean Brien, the tortures of q death son
tence already undergone, the long delays Of q
second trial, the youth and good antecedents
of the brothers, and the now assured fact that
the murder of Brossard had not been, directly
committed by them-their crime, if they were
criminal, being at most the having been pres
lie
did not result in a capital sentence the King
might remit the penalty of the galleys
To escape from the galleys and from death
refusal of LIE Pridoux and his accompiice To-
admit the statement of the brothers, destroyed /
any expectation of an acquttal. When theI
Nayls were heard as Witnesses ct the assizes in /
Vannes, the public anxionsly followed their I
words. ALI eyes were turned towards the ac- +
cused, and their deniais excited 1nurmurs
throughout the hall. The venerable III. LIE |
(Ys.lI lad
in his eyes to tell the truth. All the interest |
Of the public was with the formerly condemn-s
ed, whose acquittal they were beginning to
hope for, while every one, without distinction |
Of party, looked on the new prisoners with
Their response was constantly the |:
same They repeated that the Nayls went 70
heir own will and fully aware of what was to
be- done there; that the resistance they talked
about was an absurd invention that. the rel
FACTORIES had resolved with one accord, ut sup
per at the miller's, to strike grand blow for
,he sake of frightsning informers; that they
honestly pitied the Nay1s but could not lie to
ave them. Such declarations, uttered with
,he frmcst assurance, Disappeared all conjec-
ures. Sentence was passed In the evening, 4
md the next morning closed carriage, escort
d by gendarmes, took away the brothers to 7
he jail at Caen.
LIE Pridoux and Jean Brien let pass the inter
raj allowed for an appeal without making any
lemand, 80 that three days after their conden-
ration the report spread in the town that their
RECEPTION would take place on the morrow.
epaired forthwith 20 Marion's lodging for the
'urpose of inducing her to leave Vannes imme- 1
lately. On reaching the door, saw a table I
overed with O napkin, on which was q cruci-
* and holy water. Madame Nayl had died in
he morning. Her reason had returned at the
of her dying, and she was again sensi- |
lie of all the horror of her situation. The
orpse was watched by some women of the {
and by Able LIE Der, who was
lways sure to be found with the poor and un- !
ortunate looked around Cor NJ. Nayl and t
is daughter, and was surprised not to see s
hem, for the custom of the Brebons is not to- l
nit their dead.--
"They are at the prison with Moisan," said /
bbe lie Der.
n Moisan was the chaplain of the prisons, /
hose. mOurnful and sublime office it was to t
repare the condemned for death. He was /
ouoly unfortunate that day, for he shared our 4
ceilings and convictions, and for the first time /
his life was trying to fit men for death whom b
e could not love. t
at is the dead mother" said NJ. LIE Der, "who \
esired them to make a new appeal to the con- t
emned in her name-'Tell them that shall d
ear their words when am with God was t
sr last speech. Nayl rose MP, closed her eyes,
ssed her On the mOath, aud they wont out" t
I knelt with the rest to pray. Nearly an g