St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-19
STRANGER OF PARIS.
Exciting Story of Miguel
Eyraud's Terrible
Crime.
His Victim Entieed to the
Chamber of Death by a
Woman.
Slowly Strangled to Death
by q Cord About the
Neck.
The Woman Slept Peacefully
in the Room With the
Corpse.

a QlSpatcn from Havana recently an
nounced the arrest in that city of the
Frenchman. Miguel Eyraud, who COM
mitted one of the most startling of MUIR
ders in the history of crime. Eyraud
had registered at the Hotel Roma under
the name of Miguel Doskl. He claimed
to be native of Poland. When he was
placed in jail he attempted to commit
suicide by cutting the veins in his leg
and arm with piece of glass. He lost
great deal of blood before medical at
tendance could be obtained, but the
doctors attending him say he will re-
cover. In his trunk were found several
| French newspapers containing the de-
tails of his crime. A pistol and dag
ger were also found in the trunk.
In addition to the police officials, who
| have pictures of the murderer, several
persons have identified the prisoner as
| Eyraud.
Eyraud and His Victim.
Eyraud's victim, NJ. Gouffe, was, up
to the latter part of last July, well
known and prosperous huissier or mar
shall, sort of combined process server
and petty magistrate. in the quarter
Montmartre, In Paris. He was eighty.
four years old. WldoWer with two
young daughters. Aside from the in
come of his Office, which was considera-
BILE, he carried on quiet little money
lending business, dealing chiefly with
persons of not uncertain character.
who lived in the quarter where he
made his home. Besides this he was
fond of the company of women, was
| good looking and was known to be
wealthy.
His disappearance first came to the
ears of the police on June 81 last, wher
his brOther-in-law, M. Landry, asked
learned that Gouffe had been seen the
evening before at the Cafe Vernon, but
after that he had not returned to his
house, and no further trace OF him
could be discovered. The first clew was
furnished by the concierge of the house
in which he had lived, 446 Rue Mont
martre. who remembered that about two
| hours after the time at which GOutfe
had been seen at the cafe an unknown
man had entered the house and gone tC
the room which Gouffe used as an office
With no more evidence than this tx
sustain the theory the police decided
that a murder had been committed, an(
that it was not merely case of flight O
suicide, as had been deemed possible a
first, and an inquest was begun.
The Murdered Mans Body.
On Aug. Is some countrymen discov
cred IN an unfrequented spot at Millery
near Lyons, the body of a man tied VI
in sack and flung in ditch. The bod,
was SO much decompoSed that 1t wa
difficult to identify it. The body, how
ever was finally fully identified as tina
of Gouffe by certain physical peculiar
tiles upon it.
Meantime the fragments of heav,
trunk had been fonnd hidden in piec
of woods some distance from the spo
where the body was found, and afte
they had been put together the trunl
was identified as one that had beef
taken from the Hotel de Bordeaux a
Lyons one day in July by young mai
and woman of respectable appearance
who had arrived from Paris the nigh
before. The trunk had been take
away in small cabriolet, and liver
stable keeper was found who remen
bered having let such vehicle to ma
who answered the description of the on
who stopped at the hotel.
The body of GOuffe was in such cor
ditiOn that it furnished no clew to tn
direct cause of his death, and it wa
given to his relatives to be buried, Will
the police looked elsewhere for a clew
The repaired trunk was taken to Pari
and exhibited at the morgue. alon
with new one constructed to resembl
as closely as possible what the damage
one must have been when 1t was new
No one in Paris apparently recognize
the trunk. 1t was taken to London i
the hope that, as it seemed to be of Ell
glish make. it might be identified
that country, and a man there on Eu
ton road did recognize it as one he ha
sold to Frenchman lodging with
young woman at certain house 0
Cover street.
A Woman in the Case.
In Paris, meantime, the police ha
been looking up the friends and a,
quaintances of Gouffe, in hope of fine
Ing man and woman who might mate
the description of the couple who ha
carted the trunk away from the Lyon
hotel. 1t was found that among th
last persons with whom he had bee
seen alive were a man named Eyrau
and young woman known as Sc;
brielle Bompard. The latter was .th
: daughter of respectable parents at L!
ons, but had not lived there for man
years. The pair answered very we'll tn
description of the two persons who ha
the trunk at Lyons, and when it wa
found that they tailed also with the dt
scriptlon given by the London man VIII
had sold such trunk, the police n
longer had any doubt that they were 0
the track of the murderers. But bot
of them had disappeared immediatel
after the murder, and without leavin
trace behind. 1t was not even know
that they had gone together. The pho
tograph of the woman was sent out t
the police of other countries.
The question of motive was also
puZZling one, but as considerable SUI
of money, some $4,000 or $4,000. ths
Gouffe's family believed that he had ha
| In his safe was missing, it was conclude
that desire for robbery had incite
the crime. This accounted, too, for tn
visit Of the unknown man to the ma
shal's office within two hours after
had evidently been taken from his pool
ct as soon as he was killed, and wit
them the murderer had gone to hi
house and obtained from the desk tn
money that he probably knew VIZ
there.
1t could not be ascertained that E,
raud had ever before been mixed up !
any notable crimes, although his recor
was rather shady, and Gabrielle Bon
pard, who was only twenty years oil
had not been known as any worse tina
the average Of her class in Paris.
was ascertained that Eyraud had M
her only few days before the murde
and there did not appear to be an
! Jason between them, unless 1t was OF
formed especially for the purpose I
, committing the crime. Eyraud left
3 wife and children in Paris.
Gabrielle Makes Confession.
: Everything dove-tailed well, howeve
In To 4hia mint hut hara the nQlif