The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-18
RAOUL JACONNEAU.

8 2ltAUUL JACONNEAU. 80
The Fate Of "Prlacess Leyse"-A Detee-
tive's Discoveries In Support Of His Theory
81 the Crime-Withered Flower, BIT Of
Thread and BLOODY Knife-A Real Assas-
sin.
A very interesting case, in which cir
cumstantial evidence was employed with
the most horrible results, was the JacOn-
neau murder, pcrpetrated in France in
1e21-one to which reference is often
made even now by French advocates in
their defense of persons accused of MUIR
der, as powerfully illustrative Of the un-
reliability of even the most ingenious
theories Of guilt backed by seemingly
perfect array Of details of proof in their
support
RaOul Jacanneau was student, who
occupied suit of apartments on the
fourth floor Of II big house, No. 80 Rue
Polichon, in the Quarter Latin, PARIS.
He was wild young fellow, who opened
bottles much oftcner than books, had
many friends-for be received liberal re-
mittanccs from his father, a retired mer-
chant of Dijon-and, so far as anybody
knew, had not an enemy in the world.
But one morning Raoul was
FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED
And u gaping wound over his collar
bone, on the left side of his neck, showed
where a thrust of long knife had penc-
trated his chest, severed the aorta and
produced almost instant death.
There was no evidence of struggle
with his assassin. He had, without doubt,
been slaughtered in his sleep. The blood
cavcred the bed, drippcd into great
pool upon the floor, and had spurted up
on the wall ut the bcd-head.
There we're two doors to NJ. Jaconneau' 3
apartments. The one which entered the
bedroom from the public hallway was
belted securely inside. That which gave
access to the small parlor was locked and
The key, when the door was forced open,
was found to have fallen upon the floor
inside.
Vidocq had started his system of de-
tective police but four years before this
(l817), and although it was organized
upon the erroneous theory that "a thief
must be set to catch thief" and c0nse-
luently his
We're all rascals, they had among them
best Of the lot, man named Muzot, was
detailed to ':work up' the Jaconneau
murder, and lie must have done his work
keenly if We are to Judge from the mar
ration in the causes cele6re Of the mass OF
evidence which he was instrumental in
bringing before the Judg'd Instruction
Before noting that evidence it will be
we'll to remark upon what actually con.
-titutrt! his clcws, and how they were
discovered. When he was summoned to
view the body Of Raoul Jaconneau he
found it us described, and the condition
Ut its surroundings was as already noted.
That much was perceptible to everybody
Muzot looked for more.
Tn the floor lie found a violet, some
what wiltcd, but in sufficiently good con.
clifton 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 IN inch long
which had apparently at some time form
ed part OF q piece Of woven silk stuff
Both ends OF that little thread were
DABELED IN BLOOD.
But loop of It IN the center was free
from stain. Muzot examined it thor
oughly with magnifying glass, an6
came to the conclusion tlat IT had fallen
upon the murdered man from the assas
sins clothing, after the fatal blow had
been dealt
lie learned that Raoul had mistress,
Loysn Manique, who worked tor mllIin
Ell, lived on the fifth floor of the house in
which Raoul had apartments on tho
fourth, and had frequently been over.
heard by Mad. PcleSrln, the FORTRESS
quarrling with him.
Loysc was of the yrisettc class, but
not Il grisettc at heart. She had gwen
herself to Raoul because she loved him
but she would not live with him III his
apartments openly as his mistress; and
40 unphllosophic and SO little grisett-like
"as she that the thought Of his going
away at the end Of his nominal studies
and leaving her almost maddoncd her
In fact, this girl had a strange idea that
her lover should marry her, especially as
there were indications that she was orr
loag to become a mother.
All the parties who knew anything
or were supposed to know al ytEing about
the murder were required to pass a pri
vatc examination by the Judge d'Instruc
ton, in the presence only Of his clerk
and the following arc the main points o.
their testimony:
Papa Dubois "a drunken fan-painter)
"My rooms aljoin those of the late NJ
Jaconncau, with whom was acquainted
of course, since we were neighbors. /
must have been about three O'clock or
the morning Of the discovery of the muir
der that / was awakened by the
LUGuBRIOUs ROWLING
OF my very intelligent dog, Mustapha
Ordinarily he is remarkably quiet, sci
dom barks, and never howls, but then III
howled like the seven weepers. Tha
must have been because he smclled BLOOD
bat did not think of that then. only
thought OF desiring to sleep, so l threw
boots and other missiles at him. But h
would not stop his bowling, so put hin
out in the hallway, saying to myself
Net HIM howl there. I shall fancy tina
some artistic female singer serenades me.
But other dodgers had not that capacity
"i fancy; for they then threw their bootl
and other missiles at him.
IN. Landral, the RENTER, who lives or
the il~or below, came up and sworc al
Muatapha with blood-curdling express
ions. lie found the intelligent dog press
lug his nose to the crack at the bottom
Of NJ. Jaconneau's door, and only raising
it to howl. NJ. ].andral, who is quick.
wlttcd, OWNED the cause of the dogs
excitement.
BLOOD HAD BEEN SPILLED.
In that room, Hc pounded on tho door
and called for NJ. JacOnneau, but in vain
Then he summoned Mad. Pelegrin and
some neighbors. The FORTRESS had a key
an'l, rs NJ. Jaconneau continued to bt
silent and Mustapha to howl, we entered
the room where we found the young
man dead.
"Do know Loysc Manique9 should
say so. Everybod J Ill the house knew
her and called har <Driucooo Avon, ch~