Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-01

enough combings to make a ~good-sized
lock Of hair. He had stolen the knife
and the necherchief, and made a false
key by takinga wax impression Of the
one in custoaIof his friend and theu he
carried out hisa long-cherished plan OF
murder of robbery.
CASE OF aBRICATED EVIDENCE.
Near Hull, in l7l2, a traveller was way
laid by a highwayman and robbed of 20
guineas. Hq made his way to an inn
and told hidstory, remarking incident
ally that hel hoped to apprehend the
thief in timA, as the guineas we're all
marked. James Brunell, the landlord,
appeared much concerned, and a few
minutes later came to the traveller, with
a serious air, and told the following
story:
II have q servant named John Jen-
nings, who has had suspiciously large
amounts of money of late. This even
ing, shortly before dusk, at about the
time you say you were robbed, | sent
him out to get a guinea changed. He
came back since your arrival, very
drunk, and gave me a guinea, saying
| that he could not get the change. | re-
marked the mark at the time, but paid
little attention to it, and n few minutes
later gave it to a creditor, in payment of
"a bill"
Brunell made no doubt that Jennings
was the robbcr. Together they went to
jennings room, where he lay in drunken
slumber, and on searching his pockets
the purse and the remaining 10 guineas
were found. Jennings was appre hended,
and after a trial convicted and Xe-
cuted, protesting his innocence to the
last. Within q year Bruneu was
himself arrested for robbing u guest of
his house and convicted. AS the hour
of his death approached he confessed to
many crimes, among others that it was
he who had robbed the gentleman of
the 20 guineas. Before learning that
they were marked he had paid out one
of them. Fearing detection he success
fully planned the sacrifice of his drunk
en- servant.
CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
Thomas Geddely, "a waiter in u York
hotel kept by a mi named Williams,
disappeared within two days, and with
him the contents of his mistress
money box. One year later a mar
came to York and applied for work
under the name of James Grow, and
picked up a scanty living as a porter.
He bore an unlucky likeness to the
missing Tom Geddely. Mrs. Williams
was sen for n day and singled Grow
out of a number of people and called
him Tom Geddely, upbraiding him for
HIS unStdJelul CFllle. he was dEFcSIcu
and tried, being fully identified by the
landlady and others, as we'll as servant
girl who had seen HIM breaking open the
treasure box. Poor and friendless,
he could but declare his innocence, and
unable to PROVE an alibi, he was con-
victed and executed, asserting his in
nocence to the last. Not long after the
poor fellows innocence appeared. Tho
real Tom Geddely, who had fled from
York to Ireland, was taken up for a sim
liar crime in Dublin. Between the date
again while on the scaffold, he con-
fessed his identity and admitted the
robbery of Mrs. Williams.
ANOTHER JUDICIAL MURDER.
Equally sad was the judicial murder
of Joseph Uesurgues, a well-to-do young
Frenchman, who took up quarters in
Paris in April, 1896. Taking dinner
with two friends in the Palais Royal
one day. they were joined by one
Courial. The host was one Guesno, an
old friend. of Lesurgues. Four days
later four hOHsemen, wearing long
cloaks and sabres, rode out of Paris to-
gether. One of the party was Courial.
On that night the mail carrier from
Paris to Lyons was waylaid in the forest
ofLehart, murdered and the mail ritled.
A description of the our men who had
left Paris, and had been seen near the
scene of the robbery, was Sc
and Courial had returned to
Paris with the horses Bernard,
was taken; Courial escaped but was
traced to the Chateau Thierry, where
he was arrested in company with Guesno
and a man named Bruer. The latter
proved alibis and was released. The
next day Guesno went to the examining
magistrate to secure some papers which
had been Ike from him at the time of
his arrest. He was accompanied by his
friend Lesurgues, when both were ar
rested on the testimony OF some servants
at an inn, where the robbers had dined
and played billiards. Some persons
were put on trial, amongst whom were
Courial. Madeline Brebant This mis-
tress), Lesurgues and Guesno. Guesno
was convicted. Courial and Lesurgues
were convicted. In vain did Madeline
Brebant declare Lesulgues' innocence,
and declared that he was the victim of a
fatal likeness to one Dubosy. Fifteen
witnesses swore to Lesurgues' alibi and
eighty to his good character. Courial
in open court declared Lesurgues inno-
cent, and said that he, with Vidal
Rossi, Durochat and Dubosy had COM
mitted the crime. But the judges re-
fused to believe the confession, and on
the 10th Of March, 1877, the unfortunate
young man was executed.
The story of the ultimate capture of
the real robber is a long one, but it
eventually developed that Dubosy had
learned Of his resemblance to Lesur-
CUES, and on the day of the robbery had
perfected it by the addition of IA blond e
wig. All the robbers were executed
within two years, but no reparation was
eve made to the heirs of Lesurgues,
although his innocence was formally
proclaimed by the tribunal which had
convicted him
THE GRAVE GIVES UP IT'S DEAD,
On August q, 1850, William Harrison
a Worcestershire stewart, left the es-
tate of Lady Campden to collect her
rents, and failing to return, suspicion
that he had been murdered soon OBJ
tained. There lived in the neighbour
hood a womttn named loan Perry, who
had two SONS. The mother bore "A bad
name, and her son, John, was half wit
ted. His feehfeimind upset by the sen
sation of the hour, John went before &
magistrate and deposed to the murder
of Harrisondbyshis brother, while hi'
mother andhimself robbed the body,