Wichita eagle., 1888-06-03

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Q. Your room opens from the passage lead
ing into the courtyard of this house!
A. Yes.
Q. Jour room has glazed door!
A. Yes.
@. So that one can see, from the janitor'i
room, every person who enters the courtyard
from the Passage de Mazarin, or vice versaa
A. Yes, if one is looking out.
O. Naturally. You have already stated
that Meissners habit was to return home
puoctually at nine o'clock. Did you observe
him pass your door at that hour Monday
nighta
A He came into the room on Monday night
at that hour to take his key and his candle
before going upstairs.
O. As ali your tenants are in the habit OF
doings
A Certainly
@. And this was the last occasion on which
you saw Joseph Meissner alive!
A. The last.
Q. Now, can you tell me with any certainty
what persons passed your door going into the
courv between nine and ten o'clock.
A. am certain that no one passed between
nine and half-past nine excepting M. STAINS
las.
~.
A One Of the tenants on the fourth floor He
came in about a quarter-past nine, took his
key, and wished me goodnight.
9. And you are certain no one else passed,
up to half-past sine!
A. Perfectly certain.
Q. Why do you say half-past nine!
A. Because at that hour went out
Q. Where.
I;,.-ff f,f -I/ aI-a,-f- D. IL Il.
to fetch a pair of boots belonging to one of
the tenants Then to the wine-shop at the
corner of the Rue st. Andre kept by NJ.
Bastoul, where l met two Of my friends, with
whom [ played several games of don1i-
noes; returning home about ten minutes past
eleven.
Q. You then closed the outer door of your
passage for the night!
A. Yes.
Q. Your usual hour for doing so is elevenl
A. Yes, but on Monday night l was q
quarter Of en- hour later.
Sophie Mouton, aged Is years, daughter
of the janitor, stated that on the night of
Monday she was alone in the janitor's room
from the time when her father went out until
his return. Intercepted as to whether she
had seen any one go along the passage,
keys, replied that she had. CHANGING to arise
her eyes for an instant from her needlework,
and to look through the glazed door, she had
observed the figure of q man glide swiftly
along the passage. 1t took but a second for
the figure to pass; but in that second she
remarked, or thought she remarked, that
tho man was young, tallish, slenderly
built, and light of footstep. The man wore
LOW glx--r,a bot -la
wrapped in cloak; but on this latter point
she could not speak with certainty. Interro-
gated as to the time when this took place, she
could make no definite statement. Was it an
hour after her father went out' 1t might
have been an hour. Was it half an
hour after he went outa 1t might have
been that; she could not say. Had she heard
10 o'clock strikes Yes, she had heard it. Was
it before or after the hour struck that the
man went along the passagel She could not
remember; she had attached no Importance to
the incident had thought that the man must
be friend of one Of the tenants, visiting him
by appointment. Again pressed to say
whether it was before or after 10 that the
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, Intercepted, gave
evidence: That on Monday night, while en-
gagged on his work IS copyist Of manuscript,
he had heard a dull sound, such as might be
caused by falling body of some weight, ap-
parently coming from Meissner's room. Had
thought that his neighbor must have let fall
on the floor large and heavy book, or
overturned some article of furniture
f+.,s L. e
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
Metssners room had attracted his notice be-
cause it was unusual; the toiling Of the bells
ct 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 conjecCural 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-exan-
ined, stated that the KEYS Of the tenants hung
on a rack in his room, with the candlestick of
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 ons candle would serve MeiSSner for two
nights; the one he tool. upstairs with him on
the night Of Monday had lasted three. He,
Mouton, had remarked on this in handing
the candle 10 Meissner, making a joke about
it. There was enough left OF the candle, be
thought, to burn for perhaps an hour and a
haH-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
de Vanguard, stated that he was proprietor
Of the restaurant at which tie deceased Jo-
seph MeissI,er regularly dined. His hour of
arrival was al 6:l5 and he invariably left 81
9:l5 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
10 that cafe eyer. evening as about 80. and
sat fer above an hour over cup of coffee,
reading the financial journals. On the even
ing OF holday MaiSsler had lett the cafe at
about SIS. his usual hour
Note by tde judge of instruction: The JAM
tor. Nouton. nav now Be released from sur
veaiance, there hong nothing TO connec. him
II any way with the crime