The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

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| In Paris, meantime, the police had been
| looking up the friends and acquaintance of
Goutfe in the hope Of finding a man and
woman who might match the description of
the couple who had carried the trunk away
from the Lyons hotel Ii was found that
| among the last persons with whom he had
| been seen alive were a man named Eyraud
| and young woman known as Gabrielle
| Boinpard. The latter was the daughter of
respectable parents at Lyons, but had not
! lived at home for years. The pair answered
fairly well the description of the two per
sons who had had the trunk at Lyons, aud
when it was found that they Tailed also with
the description of the Loldon mau who mad
sold such a trunk, the police no longer had
any doubt that they were on the track of
the murderers. But both of them had dis
appeared Immediately after the murder and
| without leaving a trace behind. IL was
not even known that they had gone to-
gether. The photograph of the woman was
sent out TO the police of other countries.
The question of motive was also a puz-
! cling one, but as a considerable sum OF
money, some $4,000 or 81 200, that Gouffe's
family believed that he had il his safe, was
missing, it was concluded that desire for
robbery had melted the crime. This ac-
counted, too, for the visit Of the unknown
man to the n3arshal's office within two
! hours after he was last seen alive. The VIC
TINS keys had evidently been taken from
his pocket as soon as he was killed, and with
them the murderer had gone to his house
and obtained from the desk the money that
he probably knew was there.
1t could not be ascertained that Eyraud
had ever before been mixed up in any
notable crimes, although his record was
rather shady, and Gabrielle Bompard, who
was only 20 years old, had not been known
as any worse than the average Of her class
i'll Paris. 1t was ascertained that Eyraud
had met her only a few days before the
murder, and there did not appear t. DO any
| liason between them unless il was ono
formed especially for the purpose of COM
hitting this crime. Eyraud left wife and
children in Paris.
Everything dovetailed well, however. up
to this point, but here the police were
stopped short by the impossibihty Of OBJ
tanning the slightest trace Of the where
abouts of the supposed criminals. It was
| thought, in general way, tha6 they had
gone to America, because it was known that
Eyraud had passed several years in this
country and in the Argentine Republic, but
in the absence of any direct clews the police
we're pOwerless to take another step, and
the atfaire Gouife seemed likely TO take its
place among the permanent mysteries of
crime, when one day in the latter part of
last month Il young woman walked into the
nounced that she was Gabrielle Bompard,
and that she had come from San Francisco
to confess her share in the crime. She was
perfectly cool and collected, but did not
seem especially strong-minded. She
denied, in the first place, having
known of the plot or having
taken any active part in the murder,
and attempted to drag red-haired young
| man, whose name she did not know, as the
active participant with Eyraud in the crime.
The improbabllities of this part of the story
were easily made clear by the police, aud
she at last eliminated the red-headed young
man and admitted that she alone had aided
the stranger in his work. She had known
Gouffe for some time, she said. and Eyraud,
| knowing this, had Undue ID her to live with
him, in order that Gouffe might be enticed
by her into his clutches. She lived in
chamber and alcove, with an ante-room,
on the first floor of a house. Two windows
opened from her room directly upon the
street. She made an appointment with
G1uife, at Eyraud's request, but without
knowing the extent of the plot 1t was
early in the evening Of warm day when
| Gouffe came. She received him in the
ante-room and made him sat beside her on
the louu ge. Eyraud was hidden behind the
curtains. She engaged the marsnal's alton
ton as well as she could, fondling and en-
braeing him, until at a moment when his
attention was entirely distracted, Eyraud
slipped softly from the Gu tains, and,
gliding over the thick carpet, flung a noosed
cord over the victims head, and tightening
it wi h "A savage twist, closed his own great
hands about the neck Of the struggling man
too quickly for him to utter a sound. Gd-
bree chung fast, at the same time, to the
marshal. plnioning as well as she could in
her embrace his strong arms, and together
both the stranger and his accomplice
CT, ,,1 20 Hold
silent as they waited for him to die. Foot
steps passed. and repassad on the pavement
outside the windows a few feet away,
and people entered and left the house
through the hallway just outside the
door OF the room. A single cry
would have reused the neighborhood, and
even q groan might have BETRAYED the
crime. But within the little anteroom, as
the doomed man struggled more and more
family with the mans terrible clutch at his
| throat and the woman's soft arms clinging
about his body, it was SO still that the tick
ing of the clock in the next room sounded,
to the stranger and his assistant, at least,
as loud and as slow as hammer strokes on
an anvil Gabrielle remembered tho tick
ing of that clock during the minutes that
they held GouiRe 50 all the way to San
| Francisco and back, aud even in her cell
she hears it yet.
When at last Gouffe's form became limp
they loosed their grasp and let it fall to tho
floor. Satisfying themselves That he was
certainly dead, they quickly stripped the
body, and stuffed it into the trunk that
Eyraud had already bought in London.
Then robbing the pockets of $50 in money
and bunch of keys, Eyraud hurried off TO
secure what was in Goutfe's slfe, leaving
Gabrielle to calmly go to bed and sleep in
the same room with the trunk.
Next morning Eyraud came back, and
together they took the trunk on a hack TO
the railroad station, and with it went 20
| Lyons, where they put up at the Hotel de
Bordeaux and slept in the same room with
| the trunk. On the following day Eyraud
went out and hired "A vehicle, upon which
they put the trunk, and with their other
baggage drove away with it into tho coun-
try, until they found a spot lonely enough
to suit them, when they opened it. removed
the body AID threw 1t into ditch, where
there was barely water enough to cover it.
Their chef burden thus dispo cd OF, they
continued their drive in another direction
until they found place where they could
get rid of the trunk. They chose a secluded
| SPOT, where Jhey put it in some thick I'M
dergrowtb, Eyraud as a further precau-
ton. knocking it to pieces with a hammer
| that he had.
| Then they drove back to the railroad
station, and Gabrielle waited there with
their baggage while Eyraud went to return