St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-21
NOW The GUILLOTINE
Stranger Eyraud's Head
Must Fall From Under
the Knife.
His Papamour, Mile. Bompapd,
Is Sentenced for Twenty
Years.
Part Of the RUDE Burrows
Blood Money Reward Is
Paid Over.
Stoddard, Accused Of Embez-
zling $2,3OO.OOO, Is Dis
charged.

PARIS, Dec. 20.-The trial of Michael
Eyraud aud Gabrielle Bompard for the
murder OF Notary Goutfe was continued
III the asSlZe court to-day. Public in
tereSt increases as the case draws to its
close and the crowd of spectators at to-
days session was the largest since the
trial began. The physical and mental
strain imposed by the trial is beginning
to tell upon the prisoners, botn of
whom to-day plainly show evidence of
the fatigue aud anxiety to which they
have been subjected. Mile. Bompard
was especially nervous and excited.
The proceedings were opened by the
public prosecutor, who summed up the
case on behalf of the government. He
began by promising to contine himself
TO the murder and robbery of NJ. Gouffe.
He begged the jury to follow him
closely and to dismiss from their minds
all the evidence that has been pre-
scented
Regarding HypHotism.
He said he would make every effort to
uphold justice against theories of sug-
gestion, which. he declared, constituted
a menace TO society. He denounced the
theories of the Nancy school of hypno-
Tiers, and, citing the results of Prof.
CharcOt'S experiments in support of his
contention, urged that a person who
was hypnOtiZed retained sufficient will
power to resist the operators will. He
said that Prof. Charcot'S experiments
showed that no operator could bring a
subject so absolutely under control
as to force him or Ter to COM
NIT crime. The theories of the
Nancy school were nothing more than
the old story of the ''evil eye" and were
on par with fortune telling with cards.
If such theories were once admitted,
personal responsibility would be at an
end, and the laws which society de-
| pended upon for protection would dis
appear in anarchy. Regarding Mile.
Bompard, the public prosecutor said
| that the woman's intellect was not gone,
| but it was depraved. Both prisoners
were equally guilty. The evidence
| showed that everything in the room in
which the crime was committed had
| been prepared for
The Hanging Of Gouf7e,
| and it was idle to assert the contrary.
The murder of the notary would have
| been impossible unless the man had
| been taken unawareS. 1t was the jury'S
| duty to reject the story OF the woman,
who was as culpable as her companion,
who frankly ayowed his guilt. 1t was
the woman's girdle that strangled the
victim to death; it was the woman who
| delivered Goutfe into the hands of her
| lover, who waited for favorable
moment to draw the cord with
which Gouffe was Strangled. He
demanded that the extreme SEN
tence of the law be imposed upon
| Eyraud. He did not ask for indulgence
in tile case of Mile. Bompard, but the
jury must consider her aye. her defect
| i've education and her condition of life.
and decide whether there were eXtenu-
ating circumstances in the part she had
! taken in the crime. The trial was con-
Guided this evening. Eyraud was con-
victed and condemned to death. Ga
| brielle BOmpard was also convicted,
but was not condemned to the gull
lotine. She was sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment at hard labor
While being conducted TO his cell,
| Eyraud necessarily mnttered, ''Con-
! demned to death at last, but | expected
| it," Eyraud refused to taste his dinner
| He expressed the hope to his keepers
! that he would be granted a reprieye.
| Mile. Bompard is also hopeful that her
| sentence VIII be reduced. She showed
| no loss of appetite when her meal was
brought to her.