St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-19

into the central Office of the Paris po-
lice and announced that she was Ga
brielle 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 espe
cially 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 In
handsome young man whose name she
did not know as the active participant
with Eyraud in the crime.
The improbabilities of this part OF
the story were easily made clear by the
police, and she at last eliminated the
nice young man and admitted that she
alone had aided the stranger in his
work. She had known Gouffe for some
time, she said, and Eyrald, knowing
this, had induced her to live with him
in order that Gouffe might be enticed
by her into his clutches.
The Stranger at Work.
Gabrielle made an appointment with
Goutfe for him to visit her apartments.
While Gouffe and she were embracing
on lounge Eyraud crept from an ante
chamber in which he had been con-
cealed, and, gliding over the thick car
pet, flung nOosed cord over Gouffe's
head He frightened it with savage
twist and closed his own great hands
about the neck of the struggling man
too quickly for him to utter sound.
Gabrielle clung fast at the same time to
the marshal. piniOning as well as she
could in her embrace his strong arms,
and together both the stranger and his
accomplice strained every nerve to hold
their victim silent as they waited for
him to die.
Footsteps passed and repassed on the
pavement outside the windows, few
feet away, and people entered and left
the house through the hallway just out
side the door OF the room. A single cry
would have reused the neighborhood,
and even groan might have betrayed
the crime. But within the little room,
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 ticking 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.
When at last Gouffe's form became
limp they loosed their grasp and let 1t
fall to the 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 robbng the pockets
of $50 in money and a bunch of keys,
Eyraud hurried off to secure what was
In GOuffe's safe, leaving Gabrielle to
calmly go to bed and sleep in the same
room with the trunk.
Flight With the Body.
Next morning Eyraud came back,
and together they took the trunk on a
hack to the railroad station, and with it
went to Lyons. where they put up at
the Hotel de Bordeaux, and slept in the
same room with the trunk. On the fol-
lowing day Eyraud went out and hired
vehicle, upon which they put the
trunk, and with their other baggage
drove away with it into the country,
until they found a spot lonely enough
to suit them, when they opened it, re-
moved the body and threw it into a
ditch. where there was barely water
enough to cover it. Their chief burden
| thus disposed of, they continued their
| drive in another direction until they
found a place where they could get
rid of the trunk. They chose secluded
spot, where they put it in some thick
underground, Eyraud. as further pre-
caution, knocking 1t to pieces with a
hammer that he had.
From Lyons they took train to Mar
settles, but soon returned to Paris,
which, by that time, was ringing with
the news of the disappearance of their
victim. From there they went on to
London, Liverpool, New York and San
| Francisco. There. Gabrielle said.
Eyraud treated her with savage cruelty,
and she finally left him and went to live
with another Frenchman. Driven on
by some strange impulse she told to the
latter the story of the murder, and he
insisted that she should return at once
to Paris and confess her share In 1t. He
furnished her with money for the trip,
and, it came outafterward, accompanied
her. Eyraud learned of her intentions.
she said, and came on the same train
with them to New York. Strangely
enough, he also wrote from New York q
wild. meaningless letter, twelve pages
long, to the superintendent of the Paris
police, which came over ON the same
ceived on the same day she made heI
confession.
Hypnotism.
The demeanor of Gabrielle Bompard
since her surrender, and the inability tC
find any reasonable motive for her par
ticipatiOn in such crime when she had
nothing to gain by it-for she seems tC
have shared none of the money-and
apparently, no special affection for him
whose assistant she became, has given
rise to strange theory, which is being
widely discussed among French scien
tific men. and which may play an i'm
portant part in her trial, should she
ever be brought to trial. This theory is
nothing less than that of hypnotism
Experts in the science of personal mag
netism, who have examined the girl
allege that she Is what is called "an eX-
cellent subject" and that it is at least
possible that she was under the influ-
ence of the superior will of Eyraud
at the time of the murder tt
such an extent that she was
not responsible for her actions. Or
this theory is explained her clinging tt
the murderer until she met man Of
presumably still stronger will. who
seems to have dominated her in the
same way that Eyraud may have done,
and to have compelled her to do what
was certainly the most foolish thing
possible for her own good-returu tt
Paris and give herself up to justice.
Although investigation proved thai
Gabrielle's story was not to be relied
upon absolutely. the capture of Eyraud
became of the first Importance. French
detectives have secured America fol
him, and every now and then the body
of some unknown suicide was supposed
to be that of the stranger. Eyraud is
about forty-Seven years old, five fee
i've inches in height. with hands Of re-
markable size and strength, looking as
if made upon purpose for strangling.
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