The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-29

accused or the crime ?" asked the Pro
cureur.
1--WE shall zee. l now call DR.
Allaire."
DR.. Alaire came to the witness
chair. He stated that Boudinot, tn,
escaped lnnaric. imagined he had &
mission to ssili his wife for her infideli
ty. He had sworn to do it and he
would"
"Where is Nine BOudinot ?"
Until to-day / did not know what
bad become of her. She sent hel
payments regularly for the custody OF
her husband, but after the three first
months never again visited the asylum.
She removed from the Rue Livaudais,
No. Al, where she had resided, and
all trace of her was lost"
"Wbat sort of wOman-I mean
what sort of age and appearancew
ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE. Here is a
photograph, in this velvet case, which
was left witt her husband, and which
We took away from him, as the sight
of it seemed to increase its fury in his
intervals of delirium.
The advocate took it from the doc
tor and handed it to the Procureur.
Compare that with the portrait of
Nam. Roquelaire, found in the house
of Nj. Beauchamp"
Precisely" said the advocate.
"Now, then. | call my third witness.
Pierre Roster, sergeant-de-vilIe. until
this morning. on duty guarding the
house of Nj. Beauchamp. in which the
murder Was committed"
Pierre Roster stood up and said. in
answer to the advocates question:
1.-Two days past the passers-by on
the opposite side have reported that
the house was haunted. One min
told me he bad seen a frightful face
at the upper windows, which came
and disappeared. Yesterday after
noon notified my relief of these
strange reports. With the consent of
the Commissaire. We entered the house
and searched floor after floor. We
reached the cellar, and were about
leaving it, whed we heard a scratch
ing 'und at the rear of the dark I'M
derground chamber. Turning our
lamps in the direction whence the
sound came, we saw, huddled up in
corner terrible looking object, 1t
was a man, with a fierce, haggard
face. He sprang up. but not SO
quickly that We did not throw our
selves upon him, bear him to the
ground and secure him before he |
could recover from bis surprise. We
called for assistance and conveyed
him to the COmmissaire's Office, TAX
ing with us the club. a very heavy
piece of wood resembling the larger
end of billiard cue. This weapon
was covered with clots of blood and
fragments Of dried flesh. The man
was evidently very nearly fam
isbed."
"Wh no did this man prove to be?
This morning the Commissarie as
that he was Jean Boudinot,
the escaped lunatic."
Did he speak or answer the Com
nissaire's interrogations ?"
Eyes. He said he had killed his
wife, and had danced the devils Jig
lpon her body. The only things we
ound upon his person was this bit of
,aper and n bit of pencil, both stained
With blood"
This piece of paper" said the ad-
'ocate, holding it up, exactly fits
he written paper from which it was
orn, found in the blood near the body.
his is the pencil.
"There remains now but one more
tatement necessary. That is mine.
promised the accused, my client. not
D reveal bis secret unless it was alb
olutely necessary. 1t is now neces- 8
ary as the finale of this case. 4
mime. Boudinot was Nine. Ro- j
uelaire. After her husband had been /
in the Maison de Sapte, 6
trough his having several times At '
smpted her life, she became acquaint- i
i with NJ. Jean Beauchamp. They !,
ecame intimate, in fact, loved each Fl
ther devotedly. In order to avoid 6
implications, she removed from her b
'rmer residence in the Ru de Liovau- y
ais to the house which NJ. Beau
,amp had rented for their joint occu-
ancy. There they lived. There, on
le night of the 10Th of June. after
[r. Beanchamp cad gone out, she was
urdered by the escaped lunatic, her
who, by what strange means
e shall probably never ascertain, had
aced her. and with all the cunning
the crazed, had concealed himself
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