The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-25
LIFE TN PARIS.
WOw Two YOUNG STUDENTS MUB,
mERED THE MHLM WOMAN
7=sT".5- .#..E" aaNEAETs .".
The Life of Two Adventures I'm Paris
The StoFy of IN Terrible Crime
French Criminal Trials.

French Criminal Trials.
Especial Correspondence of the Demoorat.l
PARIS August /, 1878.
city containing 100000 souls con afford
to furnish tragedies which the imagination OF
painters or poets seeks in vain to reproduce.
Such combination of horrible circumstances
has Just occurred and has thrown even sensa-
tional Paris into excitement. The crime Is
not unique In it's kind, but the details are,
perhaps, as minute and clearly brought to
light as any that have ever been discussed
before q bar of justice. Commenting and
1noralizing arc out of place. Read and con-
fess the history made plain In the questions
and answers Of the president OF the tribunal
and the accused, save for its final and darkest
phase would find many fac similes among
the youth Of our own cities.
Before the bar are the accused-Barre and
Lebiez, and the woman Lepin, the mistress Of
the former. They are being tried for the
murder Of u 1t1iiiik H 776fffHtEi, Al old woman
named Gillet, June %, 1878. The woman Le-
pin had nothing to do with the murder-she
received the stolen goods taken from tho
dead woman by her assassins.
Questions to
BARRE.
President-You were born at st. Georges
April 49, 1853. You are twenty-five years
old.
Barre-Yes. r.
W President received good education.
Your father Is d perfectly worthy man. From
being an ordinary joiner, he raised himself to
modest but honorable position. He became
dealer In wood. He possessed at one time
$4,000. He made number of sacrifices to
have you brought up at the Lyceum Of
Anglers.
Barre-Yes.
president-You there showed great intell-
gence You carried of O number of collegiate
honors. (The president here gave list of
prizes obtained at the college by Barre.) Your
mother having died your father married
again. That Is generally q misfortune for q
child, but you found q second mother In the
woman your father married.
Barrett Is true.
President-So, happy In your childhood,
nothing remained but your moral and intel
leetual advancement. You have had bless
ings refused to many Others You became
the clerk Of notary at Anglers You we're
dismissed thence because O. servant maid was
surprised in your room. You came to Paris.
Your father wrote you incessantly, Come
back to the country" and he promised to pur-
chase for you notarys Office. You pre-
ferred to remain In Paris. Aided by the
counsels Of your father and an education like
yours 1t would have been easy to have been
an honorable man; but you
GAME TO PARIS
to satisfy your material lusts. Is 1t true?
NO answer from the prisoner)
PrpSi1entr-YDU deGAived v0ir father Won
wrote to him ''you worked; you lived alone !;
evening found you with the students lamp on
the table: you had only one friend-Lebiez; !;
the evening passed thus in your room; Lee
blez busy on d composition on anatomy, and
you studying laW-bOok.'
All that was false. The woman Lepin had
rejoined you. She lived with you. She was q
married woman having two children and you
lived with her-that woman-your mistress,
who sold herself to prostitution and when ar
rested was In the height of a debauch.
lIhe prisoner answered nothing.)
Tnass !32Iess.sal alent~ hers eerre fsah come Of
LEPIN's LETTERS,
then continued
"Such was your society. You were with
woman Of debased character and your cruel
Instincts already showed themselves You
made her miserable. She detested you. She
remained with you only until she should not
go empty-handed, and you were hardened
towards her child
"Then you wearied your father by demands
for money; your father, who sweated and
toiled; and that money served to buy Jewels
for your MISTRESS
Barre-Oh, no.
President-Did you not buy jewels at the
Palais Royal?
Barre-Oh! forty francs.
President-You got up picnics?
Prisoner-Only once.
President Now read letters of the woman
Lepn describing those picnicsl You
GAMBLED AT THE EXCHANGE.
You bought bond and unfortunately you
made on that bond and bought two others.
You then wrote your father the Exchange
was place where more money Is gained than
anywhere else He commenced by moraliz-
ing, by reasoning with you, and then, beiev
Ing In your, letters, having confidence In your
education he sent you the money you de-
manded; but he does not cease saying to you,
ssMy poor son, / think we are on the wrong
road" At last you have acknowledged that in
two years he sent you nearly 1000 francs
{S140O) An enormous sum for him. January,
1877, he told you he "had nothing; you had
ruined him" You answered, ''Iry to sell
something else; II you do not wish to sell,
borrow" Yes, you wrote him that, and you
squeezed him like 8 sponge, the miserable
man.
Prisoner answered nothing.
President-Before leaving you stole from
your father. He suspected a servant. Filled
with remorse you were not willing the girl
should be suspected and you confessed.
Prisoner-My fathers cash box was always
at my disposition.
President-So much the more reason for re-
specting it.
Prisoner-He did not know what I had
taken.
President-It was q theft clearly and SIM
ply. One who can steal from his father will
steal from others. You committed acts of
dishonesty In the college where you studied
you took postage stamps.
Prisoner-That Is customary. I took what
postage stamps were necessary for my CORE
spondence. It is done in all universities.
President-One day you abruptly quilted
{S160), rue Hautville. Then you had no re-
sources for that trade agent FGFuns business
agent which you undertook. You bought
new furniture for an Office. 1t was Lebiez
who sought the location. It was understood
you would be his partner, and that as he
knew less about the business, he should at
tend to the outdoor affairs. All this made
YOUR father uneasy; he kept on saving: