Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-07
UNDER THE SERPENT'SCHARM.
Prado Still Proves Irresistible to
the Fair Sex,
LADIES FILL THE COURT ROOM.
The Prisoner For Once TIL rown or
His Guard On Hearing Read His
lmploring Lette err to Eugene
Forester.
AIDES FILL THE COURT ROOM.
An Ideal villain,

| PARIS, Nov. 6.-TNew York Herald Cable
Special to The BEE The second day of
the grand Prado trial was even more sonsa-
tional than the first and the climax of inter-
est will be reached tomorrow, when the IA
nous criminal will be confronted by his two
mtstresses. A large number OF ladies were
present ut to-day's session, and sat patiently
| through the long hours of the examination,
80 absorbed were they in watching the ac-
tons of this resistless enemy of their sex.
The line of magistrates, clad in lowing
robes Of rcd and black, took their places
about noon. The first few hours were
passed in hearing the testimony relative to
the thefts ia which Prado and his accompliccs
are involved. Nothing was definitely estab-
lished except that the various Spanish wit
nesses admitted having received jewels from
Prado. They all. however, denied having
had any idea that they were taking stolen
property. Some of their explanations were
rather hazy and all of them showed a greater
or less ignorance of French. A buzz of inter
est ran about the room when Prado was
called to testify as to his relations with the
murdered woman, Marie Aguitant. The pres
ident warned the prisoner that he would not
permit him to indulge in the insulting Ian
guage which he had used on the pre-
vious day. Prado protested vigorously
declaring that he would either say what he
| pleased or keep silent. AS u matter of fact
| he did say very much what he pleased, to
the great amusement of his hearers and to
the annoyance of the judges.
Prado is either a human fiend without
heart or he is an actor of c~onsummatc
genus. He appeared absolutely incapable of
any sentiment of sorrow or shame when con
victed of glaring falsehoods. He admitted
his guilt with u smile, explaining hat he en-
joyed making game of his judges. For fully
two hours the examination turned upon
the murder of Mamie A~guitant and Prado
entered into all the details Of the hideous
crime without ever wincing. He seemed to
gloat over the horrible part he was
playing and never wearied of weav-
ing about himself a shroud Of rO-
mantle mystery. His i~nsolent bravado
passed all bounds and his greatest ambition
seemed to consist in making his audience
laugh at the expense of his examiner, At
such moments he would rub his thin hands
together, while his small, deep-set eyes
would light up with a satanic leer. He
speaks French. fluently and without any ac-
cent. His general line of defence consists in
denial and ridicule. He declared
that he had never set foot in the
Eden theater, where he is supposed to
have met Marie Aguitant on the fatal night.
He lost no occasion of abusing M. Guillot,
the judge d instruction, whom he charged
with Partially in the selection of the wit
nesses. ''Caruot," remarked the accused IN
one of his attempts at humor, twas famous
for organizing victory and Guillot is famous
for organizing his witnesses" Prado at
tempted to show that there was not the
slightest resemblance between himself and
the mysterious American supposed to be the
murderer and laughed at the idea that he
would have been so stupid as to contde his
guilt to a vixen of a mistress.
President-The Forester woman has for
maily accused you Of the crime, and she is
the girl whom you loved and trusted.
Prado-I love her no longer. When a
friend has struck you over the head with a
club you would change your opinion of him.
Is it not shameful for a PERSONS mistress to
wish to have the head cut off which has SO
often rested upon her breastt
President-The woman Varlay t~estifies
that on the night of the murder you came
ZONE at half-past IL very much excited.
Prado-How would she remember the
hour?
President-If her story had been OBJ
tanned from newspaper details, as you
clam, she would have put the hour at
half past 1 a. m, inasmuch as the crime was
supposed to have occurred at l q. m.
Prado-It did occur at l u. m. as the wit
nesses will prove. This whole story is merely
a repetition of the Pranzini affair. If guilty
do you think 1 would have been fool enough
to have told my MISTRESS
Prado went on with wholesale denials. He
had not burned his shoes and shirt, There
was no drop Of blood on his cuff the bank
notes were not cut with a razor. Finally, if
he had risen to wash his hands on the night
in question, it was because he had too much
perfume on them.
His sudden departure for Spain had been
to collect some money. The examination
went on.
President-After your voyage to Spain
you sent 450 francs to the file Forester for
her to join you at Bordeaux, where you were
living %unhappily with the Varlay woman.
She says that one day you fired at her with
u revolver.
Prado-IfI had fired at her l should not
have missed her, as she is big enough to hit.
The fact is she was angry because l objected
to her having other lovers than myself, That
caused the trouble between US, but | never
used violence toward her..
After a short recess the president pro-
ceeded to show that portions Of the tes-
timony OF the Varlay woman could not
have been obtained from the newspapers.
As they were then unknown she could only
have received this Information from her
lover, Prado. 1t was known that Prado
had really disposed of a number of jewels in
Spain, which fact conceded with the Varley
woman's story. Unfortunately none OF these
Jewels had been found, owing to the fact
that in Spain there is no official surveillance
over pawnshops. This was unfortunate, but
a certain Garcia Ximenes had sketched a
comb which Prado had pawned to him and
the parents OF the woman had recognized it
as having belonged to Marie Aguitant.
Prado objected to that. 1t was easy to make
designs after the papers had published a full
description of the missing jewels. This same
Ximenes the president went on, had written
J four times to the French police Offering
to reveal the murderer for a sufficient re-
ward. One of his letters was read. After
some further discussion as to the jewels
which Prado had disposed of in SPAN the
president, by an unexpected argument, sue
ceeded for the first time in arousing some
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