Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-14
RAOEL .JACONNEAU.

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Condemned by CiGcumstantial Evidence
The Fate OF princess Loyse"-A Detec-
tives Discoveries in Support Of II is Theory
OF the Crime-Withered Flower. Bit OF
Thread and bloody knife-~-A Rea! Assas-
Sin
4 very interesting case, in which, cir
cumstantal evidence was employed with
the most horrible results, was the &acOn-
neau murder, perpetrated in. Fr2Ece in
1S2l-onc to which reference is. often
made even now by French advocates in
der, as pc" ertuliy illustrative Of the I'M
reliability of even the most ingenious
theories of guilt backed by seenaiagly
perfect array of details Of proof in tier
support.
RaOul Jacanheau was a student, who
occupied suit Of apartments on the
fourth floor Of a big house, No. 49, i. ue
Polichon, in the Quarter Latin. Ps-1s.
He was wild young fellow, who open ed
bottles much oitener than books. had
many frlends-for be received liberal re-
mlttances from his fathe-, retired me-
chant of DUon-and, SO far as anybody
But one morning Raoul was
FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED
And gaping wound over his. collas
bone, on the left side ofhis neck, showed
where thrust Of a Long kite had pene-
tratcd his chest, severed the aorta and
produced almost instant death.
There was no evidence Of a STRUGGLE
with his assassin. He had, without:doubt,
been slaughtered in his sleep. The blood
covered the bed, dripped into a great
pool upon the floor, and had spurtod up
on the wall at the bed-head.
There were two doors to NJ. Jaconneau's
apartments. The one which entered the
bedroom from the public hallway was
boltcd securely inside. That which gave
access to the small parler was locked and
the key, when the door was forced onen,
was fMnd to have fallen upon the .hoor
inside.
Vidoc1 had started his system Of de-
tective police but four yeacs before this
>1S1O, and although it was organized
upon the erroneous theory that "a thief
must be Get to catch a thief" and conse-
luently lis
DETECTIVES
Were all zascals, they had among them
some very shreWd fellows. One of the
best OF the lot, man named Muzet, was
detailed to ''work up" the Jacon neau
murder, and he must have done his work
keenly II we are to judge from the mar
ration IN the c0a.ses celsbre of the mass of
evidence which he was instrumental in
bringing before the Judged Instruction.
Before noting that evidence it will be
we'll to remark upon what actually con-
stitutcd his clews, and how they were
discovered. When he was summoned TO
view the body of Raoul Jaconneau lhe
found it as described, an& the condition
OF its surroundings was as already noted
That much was fcrceptible to everybody.
Muzot looked FOR more.
On the floor he found a violet, some
what wilted, but in sufficiently good con-
dition to show that it had been fresh
violet the day before. On the breast of
the dead man he found fragment of blue
silk thread, little more than az inch long,
which had apparently at some time form
ed part of piece uf woven silk stuff.
Both ends Of that little thread were
DASBLED, III BLOOD.
But a loop of it in the center was free
from stain. Muzot examined it thor
oughly with & magnifying glass, and
came to the conclusion that 1t had fallen
upon the murdered man from the assas-
sins clothing, after the fatal blev had
been dealt
He learned that Raoul had mistress,
Loyse ManiQue, who worked for mi lin
er, lived on the fifth floor ef the house in
which Raoua had apartments on the
lourth, and had frequently been OYER
heard by Mad. Pelegrln, She FORTRESS,
ouarreling with him.
Loyse was of the grisette class, but
not grisette at heart She had g1vec
herself to Raoul because she loved him.
but she would not live with him IN his
apartments openly as his mistress; and
SO unphilosophic and SO little gsisett-like
was she that the thought of his going
away ct the end of his nominal studies
and leaving her almost maddened her.
In fact, this girl had a strange idea that
her lover should marry her, especially as
there we've indications that she was ere
long to become a mother.
AAA tAC paltleS WIZ knew aQVtRanG,
or were supposed to know nytEing about
the murder were required to pass a pri-
vate examination by the Judge d'Instruc-
ton, in the presence only Of his clerk,
and the following are the main points OF
their testimony:
Papa Dubois "a drunken fan-painter)
My rooms adjoln those of the late NJ
Jaconneau, with whom I was acquainted
Of course, since we were neighbors. II
must have been about three O'clock on
Ihe morning of the discovery of the muir.
der that was awakened by the
LUXURIOUS ROWLING
OF my very intelligent dog, Mustapha
Ordinarily he is remarkably quiet. sci.
dom barks, and never bowls, but then he
howled like the seven weepers. Thai
must have been because he smelled blooc
but did not think Of that then. only
thought OF desiring to sleep, so I threw
boots and other missiles at him. But b,
would not stop his bowling, so I put hin
out in the hallway, saying to myself
"lIet him howl there. I shall fancy tina