Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-11
we're found in the strong box and other

were found in the strong box and other
places.
lie Brun being examined said that after
he left the maids on the stairs he went
down into the kitchen he laid his hat and
the key of the street door on the table,
and sitting down by the fire to warm him
self, he fell asleep; that he slept, as he
thought, about an hour, and going to
lock the street door, he found it open /;
that he locked it, and took the key with
him to his chamber. On searching him
they found IN his pocket key the wards
of which were newly filed and made re-
markably large and on trial it was foun1
to open the street door, the ante. chamber,
and both the doors in Lady Mazel's cham
Der. On trying the bloody nightcap on
| exactly, whereupon he was committed to
prison.
On his trial it appeared as if the lady
was murdered by some person who had
been let in by LIE Brun for that purpose,
and had afterwards fled. 1t could not be
| done by himself, because no blood was
upon his clothes, nor any scratch Oh his
| body, which must have been on the muir
derer from the lady's struggling but that
it was LIE Brun who let him in seemed very
clear. Not one of the locks was forced,
and his own story of finding the street
door open, the circumstance of the key
and the nightcap, and also a ladder OF rope
being found in the house, which might be
supposed TO be laid there by LIE Brun to
take off the attention from himself, were
all interpreted as strong proofs of his guilt /;
and that he had an accomplice was in
| ferred, because part of the cravat found
in the bed was discovered not to be like
his but the maids deposed that they had
washed such cravat for one Berry, who
had been foetman to the lady, and was
| turned away about four months before for
robbing her. There was also found in the
loft at the top of the house, under some
straw, shirt very bloody, but which was
not like the linen of LIE Brur, nor would
it fit him.
LIE Brun had nothing to oppose to these
| strong circumstances but a uniformly good
character, which he had maintained during
the twenty.nine years he had served his
lady, and that he was generally esteemed
good husband, good father and good
servant. 1t was therefore resolved to put
him to the torture, in order to discover his
accompiices This was done with such
severity on February %, 1880, that he died
the week after the injuries he had re.
ceived, declaring his innocence with his
| dying breath.
About month after notice was sent
from the Provost of Sens that dealer in
horses had lately set up there by the name
of John Garlet, but his true name was
found to be Berry, and that he had been a
| footman In Paris. In consequence of this
he was taken up, and the suspicion of his
guilt was increased by his attempting to
bride the officers. On searching him a
gold watch was found, which proved to be
Lady Mazel's. Being brought to Paris, a
person swore to seeing him 90 out of
Lady Mazel's the night on which she was
murdered. Berry said he had been killing
cat.
On these circumstances he was con-
demned to the torture and afterwards to
be broken alive on the wheel. On being
tortured, he confessed that, by the direc.
ton and order of one Nine. Savoniere,
Lady Mazeps daughter, he and LIE Brun
had undertaken to rob and murder Lady
Mazel, and that LIE Brun murdered her
while he stood at the door to prevent sur
prise.
In the truth of this declaration he per.
sisted until he was brought to the place of
execution, when begging to speak with one
of the Judges, he recanted what he had
said about LIE Brun and Nine. de Savon.
| iere, and confessed that he came to Paris
on the Wednesday before the mu~1ar was
committed. On the Friday e. he
went into the house, and, unperce, :. got
into one of the lofts, where he lay till Sun
day morning, subsisting ON apples and
bread which he had in his pockets that
about ii o'clock on Sunday morning, when
he knew the lady had gone to mass,
he stole down to her chamber, and
the door being open, he tried to get under
the bed but it being too low he returned
to the loft, pulled off his coat and his
waistcoat, and returned to the chamber a
second time in his shirt. He then got un.
der the bed, where he continued until the
afternoon, when Lady Mazsl went to
church that knowing she could not come
back soon, he left his hiding place, and
being incommoded with his hat, he threw
it under the bed and made cap of nap
kin which lay on chair, secured the bell
strings and then sat down by the fire, where
he continued till he heard her coach drive
into the courtyard, when he again got I'M
der the bed and remained there that Lady
Mazel having been in bed about an hour,
| he got from under it and demanded her
money; she began to cry out and at
tempted to ring, upon which he stabbed
her, and she resisting with all her strength,
he repeated his stabs until she was dead !;
that he then took the key of the wardrobe
cupboard from the beds head, opened
the cupboard, found the key of
the strong box, opened it and took
out all the gold he could find, to the
amount of about 500 livres that he then
locked the cupboard and replaced the key
at the beds head, threw his knife into the
fire, took his hat from under the bed, left
the napkin in it, took the key of the cham
Der from the chair and let himself out
went to the loft, pulled off his shirt and
cravat, aud leaving then there, put on his
coat and waistcoat and stole softly down
stairs and finding the street door only on
the single lock, he opened it, and went out
and left it open; that he had brought a
rope ladder to let himself down from a
window if he had found the street door
locked but finding it otherwise, he left
his rope laddera at the bottom OF the stairs,
where it was found.
Thus was the veil removed from the deed
of darkness, and all the circumstances
which appeared against LIE Brun were ac-
counted for consistently with his limo.
cence. From the whole story the reader
will perceive how fallible human reason is
when applied to circumstances, and the
humane viii agree that in such cases i'm.
probabilities ought to be admitted, rather
than man should be condemned who may
possibly DE innocent.
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