The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-31

herself.
The gardener at last burst open the
ioor. The light, an argand lamp,
Was still burning on the table. Every I
thing was in confusion. On the floor
lear the window was stretched the |
dead body of NJ. Cabareau. The !
hard polished, oaken floor, where his
head lay. Was covered with blood,
and u CHASTITY, ga>Ping wound in the
throat was terrible attestation ut
the cause If his death.
One ii the servants, the house
mail, ran cut Mortified aud scream
ing, the rest following. to the Rad.
a group al farm-haniS were passing.
Tine 1T them ha,i-u-l To- the village
and gave The alarm. Meanwhile
the i-ar-stricken group gathered about
the sensele>s form lying on the gravel
path in the lawn. They speedily
discovered that ne was not dead They
moved him IA gently Is possible to
the grass. AMI when in lt'le while.
officers. Corb-il police, the cornm'ssaire
and u surgeon arrived, the man was
restored I" Consciousness. but he spike
fceily anI hesitstingiy. The commits
sairc and IN officer entered the chateau
and made their WAY tn the room where
the dead Cabareau lay weltering in
his blo"d.
The man on the lawn gave hi> name
IL jacques Godier. The wreck was
his balloon.
Ills story If his mishap WAS brief
AMI apparently truthful lie hal
lett Paris nj seven o'clock.
IL arose io 4 great height ! was
dizzy, b.wil,lere,.. How long ! re-
manned in che air Ito not know. All
can remember Is tina: feeling my
limbs growing numb. with the cold.
au, the balloon beginning To swing, !
became terrified. | pulled violently
ut the valve rope. Night was upon
me when | hogan to descend rapidly
A reached the earth the warmth
revived me-ihe motion al the.
hal'~n was more gentle. AL at one.
the ba>kc, struck the earth. rebo,ln.ie,l.
struck again. and then was still.
Two men mad grasped the car. and
their weight was enough. They
fastened it by the drag rope to some
thing in tine ground 1t was pitch
dark. There was light in only one
I of the windows of the chateau. | was
about to speak and thank the unknown
men who had 81 fortunately aided me.
when, like rut;ians, they sprang upon
me aud hurled me To the ground. As
we'll as could, in such sudden
onslaught in the darkness. | struggled
To- escape. NV resistance madd-ned
them. \ heavy blow from blud-
.eon or club. AMI | knew no more.
/ The men never uttered Il word during
the struggle. | did not see their
faces, but am sure one Of them had
heavy beard and u. bald head, tor
he i; WIS whom ! first closed IN with
when they attacked me
I The balloon was examined. IL had
COLLAPSED through the bursting of one
of the MANY patches with which 1t had
been repaired. la the ba>ket-car was
found small bag Of gold Napoleons
and notes, u pncket-book. large IN
size. filed with memoranda, papers
and stock receipts. These were all
/ ;j~",.i., u 80 'h. ,.rnperty 81 VI. Caba
reau, the murdered man. Between the
basket car and where jacques Godier
vas lying, the searchers found carv.
ing knife. the blade aud handle
smeared with FLOOD. This blade was
identified is belonging to the kitchen
of the chateau, hy the house keeper.
: Upstairs the investigation If. the
Con,missaire resulted in the discovery
that robbery had been the intention,
murder the result, Ii was evident
the murderer or mnr,lerers had en-
tered NJ. Cabsreau's sleeping room
whil.. he was vet awake and struck
him down in the throat with the knife
and lett him to die. Entrance To the
chateau had been effected by a
pickiuck at the rear deer, leading Ia
the servant, wOrk-rooms, and after
the CORY work the perpetrators had
gone out through the main doors to
the front. There was blood upon the
stair rails upon the doors the marks
oi bio"ly fingers. Above all, the
soft felt hat, new. with the name ~.
Cooler" was iouni in the main hall
way, near the foot If the staircase.
! All these discoveries, III the
police officials. pointed t" Jacques
Cooler. the aeronaut, n heing i'm
plicaie,i. If no, the principal. in the
brutal murder Of VI. Cabareau.
! His wounds were superficial, and
bled prnfu-eIy, and, in the com
missire's theory. were inflicted not by
any conflict with outside parties. bu,
by NJ. Cahareau, in his death struggle.
! The shrewd official argued tina,
Jacques Cooler had told the truth a:
tn his trip from Paris in the balloon,
hut that the rest Ut his story wa
false. Jacques hal landed the balloon
there. saw the solitary light in the
lonely chateau, and then the though,
If robbery came tn him. aud he went
ut the evil. fatal work.
Il ~. hi...a hi- hat the stairs the
carving knife, the bloosl-siained bags
and packet book were ,lamning proof,
not only Of his entrance into and exit
from the house, but established the
inference that his intention, having
placed his plumber in the car. was
;o again assembled into the balloon
that. fortunately. il had collapsed,
and that he. weakened by his desper-
ate work and the blows inflicted upon
him bv his victim, became insensible,
aud so was found.
Jacques Cooler was taken to Cor
he'll. thence through special order
Of the minister of justice conveyed to
Paris. when he underwent the usual