The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-21
ACTING ANOTHERS WILL
tvanSltp the Victim with Hell
BANDS Strange Story Illus
atipg the osetbtlttte
Hyppotism.

From u.c SIN ErauciscoC Chronicle.
P..rs, Feb. 17.-Thc ticmcanor of Ga
bri.,lI.. Bomnard since her surrender and
inability tn find any reasonable motive
for her participation i'm the murder nj
Go,Ifc. when she lad nothing tai gain by
il, for she seems To- have shared none al
the money. a,id apparently had no spec
ial affection FOR thc man whose ;issistant
SIN, bs~amc, has given rise To "a strange
theory. which il bcing widely discussed
ansonc French scientific men. ana which
may play sn important part in her trial.
Tins Theory il nothing lees than that of
hypnn'i-m. Experts IN the c'cncc "t
personal magnetism who have examined
the girl atlcgc that she u what IL called
ian excellent subject" and that il ~ at
least possible that she was under thu in-
fiucnc. of the superior will of Eyraud AT
the time Of tho murder 10 such an extent
that she was not ~,>ponsii'lc FOR her
actions.
On his theory il explained her cling
ing la the murderer until She met q per-
>on of presumably still stronger will. who
ss-crus I. hav.. dominated her in tie
sam" way that Eyraud may have done,
tainiy The most fooiisi, thing vossibl,. for
her own good return T. Paris ami give
herself mp tn Justice. This theory also cx-
certain stories she has told as Ia tho OK
act circumstances of the murder and
many other things that have been noticed
since she has tss'n IN charge of tho lo-
ticc.
Garanycr. the companion of Gabrielle
Bonspard. has Disappeared from his hotel.
and tho polic.. have not yet been aihc To
discover whittier hc has gone. There ~
"a warrant for apprehension, OWN. Z"
what she and Houston sad about "a para
graph Iva "A California paper. which has
probably made him nervous. IL speaks of
S nH IT, - . y; ,ane' h,l d i n.m, S msaninm ' "s
course Gabrielle. AMI one Garang.r. :.
nativ. of Jarnac, a., forming - Irio 81
vs.As he'd the, police. il seemed So strange
that an agent wa. sent 70 look M s'arai,-
found that he had left.
Gabrielle has b.su taken to- the house
wbcr, She declares the murder was com
mittet!. She was met there 10y the Judge
UIns,rnction-. by DIR. Dcscouts. who "a
asked tai study her. and Ivy two chemical
experts. Gabrielle WAS very voiublc. She
said that all the furniture save an arm
chair was removed from the room. and
hat when (,ouNc sat down she seated her.
Eyr..,id. To i,:,rmI,cr him bct,cr whcm the
non~4; WAS Slipped around his neck. The
murderer, She states. hung ON to the rope.
but was not strong enough to keep Goutf.
suspended i'm the air, anal she then stran-
gied him with her hands.
After "a search for the blood spots was
over, two detectives were introduced to
act thu parts of G:o,ife and Eyrs,id. under
Gahricilc's directions. \ crooked nail was
driven into tine wall close to the hole at
ready mentioned. AN "a rope with "a siiI,
knot was loosely thrown round the head
81 the police agent VIII" sat in the arm
tAu "st@ t'bs W W. et tttN
knees, whicl, she did. She cried and
laughed a. she toii low Gouifc had no
suspicious Of Eyraud's presence. aud said
that when SHE. saw the murderer about to
operate with th.. nus,s. she WAS pctriiicd
with terror: t;ouiIs not understandings
why she looked SD scared, said "ibo not he
afraid of ms. for I'm not ~ terrible man."
As he spoke the moose descended and i'm
a moment his face grew purple and his
eyes started out OF his head. II" caught
the rops, with his hands. aud Gabrielle
fell 'r, the floor IA he was jcrl>cd ont of
the chair, but il WAS thought from the SUI
s.r:icini character of tho nail hole that
the mai! must have come ont.
tsrs.rlgcr's positi IN is singular. Vie WAS
AN agent cf the I'rancl, Z ,vcrnn,cnt and,
ron ing home 10y Way of California, met
Eyraid aud Gabrielle. Contrary tai what
she says, his story il t!tat she never told
him |. word of the murder until they got
Ia Paris. She even got him ~ lend
Eyraid 400, saying thai Inc had !, rich
broshcr-iIi-law. called Chotcan. in Paris.
who would pay il back. lie is "a r,.sp.cta-
bile person. and from him she had secured
r3sit altogether by threatening to Disgrace
Ibis family by revealing that his wif,,'-
brother was Gouiic's murderer.