Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-04-09
THE DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST. THU ltSDAY APRIL g. 1885

IoN-,:NwL.d nat, ana, go thCugnt, wns
wrapped in a cloak; but or this latter pcini
she could not speak with cerso.nty Inscrro
Z gated TO tho time when this took place, rh.
/ could make no definite statement. Was IL 80
! hour after her father went oati 1t mi~.-
I nave teen an hour. Was il ElIf an
hour after he went outi Il might have
been that; she could not say. Had she heard
10 o'clock strikel Yes, she had heard it. Was
il before or after the hour struck that the
man went along the passagei She could not
remember; she had ATTACHED no rapor7ance to
the incident; had thought that tho man must
be frient! Of one of the tenants, visiting him
by appointment. Again presseo to say
whether it was before or after 10 that tho
man passed her door, the child Sophie Mouton
burst into tears, protesting that she could not
remember; and SO her examination closed.
Jules Pernet, the tenant occupying thereon
adjoining that of MeisSner, interrogated, gave
evidence: That on Monday night, while en-
gagged on his work as a copyist of manuscript,
he had heard dull sound, such as might be
caused by falling body of some weight, ap-
parently coming from Meissnes's room. Had
thought that his neighbor must have let fall
on the floor a large and heavy book, or
overturned some article of furniture.
Thereafter had heard a noise of foot.
steps in the room, and had remarked
it as something unusual, his neigh
Der being always very quiet. Could not say
precisely at what time he had heard the
sound of the falling body, but thought it
must have been about ten. The noise in
Meissner's room had attracted his notice be-
cause it was unusual; the tolling of the bells
at ten o'clock, though much louder, had been
quite unmarked by him; he was accustomed
to it, and, busy over his mechanical work as
copyist, paid no attention to it. Pressed to
give conjecture1 answer, refused, repeating
that he was quite unable to say whether the
sound had been heard by him before or after
the striking of ten o'clock.
The janitor, Mouton, recalled and re-exam-
lned, stated that the keys of the tenants hung
on n rack in his room, with the candlestick of
each above. The candles were brought down
from the upper rooms each morning; there
being no light in the staircase, the tenants
were accustomed to light them in his room
before going upstairs at night. During win
ter one candle would serve Meissner for two
nights; the one he took upstairs with him on
the night of Monday had lasted three. He,
Mouton, had remarked on this in handing
the candle to Meissner, making a joke about
it, There was enough left of the candle, he
thought, to burn for perhaps an hour and
haf-not more. Had been shown the long
dagger found beside the corpse; had never
seen any such weapon in the possession of the
deceased.
Auguste kosinski, restaurant keeper, Rue
dc Vaugirard, stated that he was proprietor
Of the restaurant at which the deceased Jo-
Seph Meissner regularly dined. His hour of
arrival was at 6:15 and he invariably left at
7:15. On the evening of Monday he had left
The restaurant at his usual hour.
Samuel Koch, waiter at the Cafe Voltaire,
stated that the deceased Joseph Meissner came
to that cafe every evening at about 7:30, and
'at for above an hour over a cup of coffee,
reading the financial journals. On tho even
ing of Monday Meissner had left the cafe at
about S:45. his usual hour.
Note by the judge Of instruction: The jani-
;or, Mouton, may now be released from sur
Teillance, there being nothing to connect him
n any way with the crime