Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

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A. Raoul was excited; I attached no sig
nifcance to what he said.
@. That is not the point; you evade my
question. Did Girard use the language Of
hatred with reference to his uncle, or did he
not2
A. Given after considerable hesitaticn) l
believe he did say something to the effec5 that
he hated his uncle, as he had good reason TO
do.
@. You arc here to give evidence, not to
comment. Attend to this question: At what
hour did you leave the Cafe de la Sourcea
A. At a little before ten o'clock.
Q. Did Girard accompany you home?
A. No. he left me at the top Of the Rue
Dauphine, saying that he meant to pay a
visit.
@. At what hour was that2
A. At 10 o'clock precisely; the bells Of st.
Sulpice sounded the hour as we parted.
@. You zee this dagger; have you seen it
beforel
A. I cannot say.
@. How! You cannot say? Did you never
see this dagger in the hands of Raoul
Girardl
a. L ndNO betu III nIo POoo DAHL q "N0pOh
which was very like it.
@. Exactly like it'
A. Yes.
Q. That dagger which you saw in Girard's
possession had a sheath; can you describe It'll
A. 1t was shaped, l remember, like q closed
fan.
Q. Was this the sheath! Here the witness
was shown the sheath Of the weapon belong
ing to NJ. de st. Florent)
A. 1t might have been; it resembles it.
@. When was it that you saw the dagger in
Girard's possession2
A. after a pause) I think about two years
ago. l saw it one day lying on Raoul's table,
l understood that it had been given him by
his uncle to sell. l took it up to examine it,
and said that it seemed valuable and would
bring something.
@. You saw it only that once3
A. Yes; I was not living with Girard at
the time; l understood that he was going tc
sell ii.
@. But you do not know for a fact that he
did so2
A. No.
@. On the table in your room, No. % Rue
Dauphine, there was found by the detective
officer Ply, on the night of Wednesday, the
26th, a newspaper, so folded that a paragraph
relating to the crime lay uppermost, and q
little heap of money; it was you placed thos
things there?
A. Yes.
Q. With what purpoSe9
A. To warn my friend that he was in dan
ger.
Q. Then you suspected him2
A, l did SO at that time. It was an un,
worthy suspicion, of which / am ashamed.
l am now as certain Of his innocence as of my
own.
Gabrielle Dumaine, glove cleaner, Rue de
rOdeon, gave evidence: That she knew the
accused Raoul Girard intimately; that she
was his betrothed. ~Interrogated as to whether
she had ever heard Girard speak Of his
uncle, declared that she had, but very rarely.
Thought she had been told Meissner's name,
but knew nothing about him, except that he
was rich and misery, and had behaved very
badly to her friend. Did Girard ever use the
language of enmity in referring to his unclei
No; he spoke bitterly about the usage he had
received, and that was all. But his lenguag;
left the impression that he disliked his uncle
Oh, certainly; how could it be otherwise
Meissner had treated him shamefully.
Q. Did you ever seein Girardls possession
long dagger, with curious writing on thu
blade, and an oddly-shaped sheathi
A. Yes, l once saw such dagger; Raou
visited us one day in passing, and showed i
to us; it had been given him, he said, by hi
uncle a week OF two before, and he was thel
on his way to sell it if he could find q pur
chaser.
@. Was that long ago!
A. Yes; more than a year; perhaps tw,
years; I cannot say precisely.
Q. Would you recognize this weapon ant
its sheath if they were shown youa
A. 1 think SO.
9. Is that the daggera Shown theponiart
used in the murd NJ.
A. 1t is very lie it; I remember the chry
santhemum flower on the blade.
@. Is that tho sheath! Shown the sheatl
from M. de st. Forent's collection).
A. l believe it il, or one exactly like it.
Q. What was The last occasion on which
you saw the accused
A. On Monday night, a little after ten, h
tapped at the door of our shop in the Rue d
rOdeon, and I went to the door and spoke Il
him.
q. How long did your conversation lastg
A. Only q few minutes.
@. Did he refer to his uncle at all during
your interview?
A. Oh, no; we talked almost exclusivel.
about the comedy which Raoul had sent t.
the Odeon.
Q. Did you observe anything peculiar il
Girard's manner9
A. No, 1 did not; to me Raoul has Away
been the same.
Q. You do not think your conversation
lasted more than five minutes9
A. 1 am certain it lasted no longer thar
that: Raoul would not come in, and it wa
showing at the time.
Abel Lenormand, journalist, stated that h.
had been a colleague of Girard's on the stat
Of LIE Petit Monde, a weekly journal now ex
tinct. Remembered calling on Girard il
company with his friend Tisson, and seeing
on his Girard's table a dagger of Orienta
workmanship, in a sheath made to initiate {
closed fan. Had taken up the dagger ant
handled il, admiring the fine temper Of tt;
steel. The weapon now shown him tha+
found beside the dead body of Meissner), i
not the one he had seen in Girard's possession
was at all events its very fac-simile. Coult
not say exactly when he had paid this visit
to Girard, but thought it must have been al
: least q couple of years ago.