The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-25
father. You must realize we'll one must be
o. sharper to make use OF such means.
lAbsolute silence on the part Of Barre.
You had already committed


You had an interview with two servant
maids. They contided to you one, 31o0 francs
s(S60O), the other 1000 francs $4,000, and you
spent the money for your personal use.
Prisoner lost it at the Exchange:
President-Tt Is the same thing. They did
not confdezit to you to waste at the Ex-
change.
Prfsoner-They lent 1t to me.
President-No they confided it to you TO
invest 1t for them.
Prisoner-Not at all. They knew [ gam
bled at the Exchange and / paid them SO
much 0 month interest for the money.
President-You made use of all sorts OF
shameful expedients. You bought books on
pilfering. You listened to your friend Lebiez,
who proposed to you to make married
women sing"
Prisoner made none of them sing.
Presidential the end Of your resources
you continued to deceive your father. In
order to drag money from him you said to
him: Il am placed
BETWEEN D1sHoNoR AND DEATH"
Prisoner wished to commit suicide.
| President-Oh, no; that Is not true. You
were playing a comedy to frighten your
| father. which you tried over again q few days
since, without deCeiving any one.
| LEB1Ez, A MEDICAL STUDENT.
Presdent-You, also, are the son OF very
worthy man, VINO 0btigoda 10 Il ffs5sfa hts
profession as painter and photographer, for
bis only income consists of 1900 francs (S24o)
coming to him from house. He deprived
| himself to bring you up well. You studied at
| the colleges Of Anglers and Nantes. You are
Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor OF Sciences.
You took seven honors at the school Of medi-
| cine at Anglers; you were even chosen assls-
| tHnt prosecutor. You were afterwards at the
| Naval School of Medicine. There the spirit of
| INSTRUMENTATION made you desire to quit the
| institute.
Prlsoner-No! 1t was the lack of means.
President-You passed for hard character.
Like Barre you were wanting In moral sense.
Barre did not like his father; you you spoke
of your mother In most injurious terms. You
wished, like Barre, to come to Paris. You
brought with you the girl Lebengle. The
girl Lebengle Is not much more worthy
obtained about her Is detestabe. You
we're, | will not say friends, for the name
of friendship cannot be given to q thing
Of that kind. but lie (tied) to Barre; you
had been professor in an institution, dis
missed because you were never there at the
hour. Then you did some anatomical work,
and you gave at the same time lessons to
strangers. Like Barre you came of an excel
lent family, and, Like Barre, you ruined your
self You wished to gamble at the Exchange.
You begged money from your family. There
| is among the documents OF the case letter
| do not wish to read. A young relation writes
| you that he cannot send you any money, but
he Is going to gamble at Nantes, and Il he
Prisoner-Yes.
president-Your family seeing what you
were worth, gave you up. You were obliged
to put everything In pawn-eyerything
| clothes, the braid OF your mistress hair. Your
letter, bearing witness to this misery, Is un-
dated.
Prisoner-Tt was written last January.
! President-Y stole the books of your COM
panions to sell them.
Prisoner-Yes, sir.
President-You lived In hotels till they de-
manded payment Of your bills. Then you
got out Of the way clandestinely. AT last you
| associated yourself with Barre to commit a
crime. At that time you knew not how to
| live.
! Prisoner-I lived as ] could.
| President-Barre commissioned you to at
| tend to his outdoor business.
| Prisoner-Yes, he rewarded me by asking
me to dine.
President-From that time you were SO
united you agreed between yourselves to rob
public prostitutes. Barre went to one of
those women, stole her watch, slipped it in
| his boot and you Lebiez, you waited for him
at the foot of the stairs.
| Prisoner-It is not true. / assert it en-
phatically. Barre has often. said melted
| him to this end [ protest against the role
| trying to be forced on me. | have my reSpOn-
| sibility. He has his. do not say he has
ruined me, but / assert it is not / who have
| ruined him.
| President-You are @ persuasive speaker.
| President-lf you speak in sincerity SO
much the better, but think you only continue
the comedy. You have already played before
the Minister Of instruction.
President ITO Barrett was you who first
had transactions with
THE MILK-wOMAN,
called "la femme Gillet" You had occasion
to know In what her fortune consisted?
Prisoner-Yes, sir.
The president here explained the operation
of investing the funds which Barre ought to
have down for ''la femme Gillot," commonly
called Mother Gillet." Barre gave assent by
affirmative signs.
President-When you saw "la femme Gil
let' was not inclined to consent to the invest
ment you proposed, you conceived the project
of q theft. One OF you said: THAT woman is
an old miser. What right has she to stow
away her money when we could make such
good use OF it. Was it you, Lebiez, who said
that?
Lebiez-We both said it.
President-Before the Judge Of instruction
you attributed those words to Barre Both
Of you are capable of having uttered them.
But we will presently see that the language
| seems rather to have come from you, for it
was the expression of your inmo5t thoughts
Lebiez-The thought came from both of us.
President Whatever as to that, it was ne
cessary the woman should disappear. You
thought Of poison to this extent that you
wished to administer q drink which would
sicken her sufficiently to send her to the hos
pital for several days, so that you might rob
her in the meantime. Toprove the fact phos-
phorized water was found at Barrels.
Barre-That water was prepared for me
two days before my arrest.
President-The comedy Of the suicide. We
will come back to that.
Barrel will prove prepared that water
for myself.
President-You acknowledge, In any case,
that you had in common with Lebiez the idea
of poisoning the woman. You, Lebiez, you
had studied your books of medicine to find
out what substance would be the most suit
able to administer. Is it true?
LebieZ-Yes.
THE CRIME.
Presidential last you said to yourself: "If
poison her and she should die, I, a medical
student, will be suspected. II l halt poison
her they will question her at the hospital. A
blow with q hammer Is better" Thus the
murder was decided. Is it true?
Both the accused-Yes.
President-And as Lebiez is q medical stu
bn TO pnr Gtr- hnr ha