Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-05-20
CHAPTER XIII.
CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION.
The following extract from The Figaro Will
| form the conclusion of my story:
MYSTERY OF THE PASSAGE DE MAzARIN.
We have to record this morning the closing
scene in the extraordinary drama of revenge
and crime which takes its name from the Pas
| sage de Mazarin. This scene equals in rO-
mantle interest any that has gone before it.
Our readers have been already told how the
japanese, kioSaka, after the murder of Jo-
seph Messner, Immediately left Paris. The
detective Blery, who has i'll this case G.s-
played such singular ability, at once
started in pursuit of the assassin. A
clew was found at MarseileS, throt, gh
photograph of Kiosaka's brother,
which had been sent to all the seaports, there
being a close family resemblance between the
brothers. NJ. Blery ascertaned that Kiosaka
had certainly gone to Marselles, probably
meaning to ship from that port; but having
in the meantime heard of the arrest of M.
Girard, the author of ''The Gold of Toulouse,n
he seems to have changed his intention and
returned to Paris, where he remained during
the whole inquiry conducted by NJ. Roguet.
Kiosaka had artfully concealed his hiding
place i'll Paris, and it was not until few
days ago that NJ. Blery succeeded in tracing
him out. 1t was then found that the Japa-
neSe had left Paris precipitately, immediately
after the innocence of NJ Girard had been
proved, and the hue and cry raised against
himself. He adopted various disguses, but
in the end NJ. Blery succeeded in tracing him
to Nantes. By this time his money appears
to have been nearly exhausted, as he could
not satisfy the demands of the captain of a
merchant vessel trading to England, where
he intended to take refuge. After this the
unfortunate man wandered aimessly from
village to village, avoiding all towns and
buying Just as much food as would keep him
in life. The detective meantime followed
him closely, sometimes losing the trail,
but always recovering it by his in
genuity and indefatigable perseverance.
Three days ago the japanese was heard of
at small hamlet near Poictiers; but in none
of the neighboring villages had he been seen
after that time The frost had been exceed
ingly keen in the district, and from, these facts
NJ. Blery drew an inference which proved
correct. Under his direction the country
people made a careful search of the woods
lying round the village which the japanese
had last visited and party led by NJ. Bery
himself discovered the corpse of the i'll
starred kiosaka lying stark and stiff among
the brushwood. He had succumbed to the
severe cold. which his natural constitution
and the privations he had lately undergone
rendered him unable to resist. On the person
Of the japanese, hung in little bag round
his neck, was found the pearl which the old
money-lender had obtained from the japanese
Sangura, and for the recovery of which he
was murdered by Kiosaka. This pearl which
is of great beauty and very considerable
value, passes into the possession of NJ. Girard,
as heir of Joseph Meissner. The reward Of
five thousand francs offered by the authori-
ties for the discovery of the assassin, together
with the twenty thousand lately added to
that amount by NJ Girard, will be made over
to M. Blery, who cannot be to highly conn
plmented ON the skill and energy which he
has displayed in the affair of the Passage do
Mazarin.
THE END