St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-26
The Brutal Cutthpoat Enters
Boldly and Leaves Cool
as an Iceberg.
To Shield Himself He Tries to
Cut a Servant to Death,
But Fails.
Retired Army officer Taken in
for the CPime--An Assas-
sin Band.

Lleul. AHdSLuy, reGlreu ARMY OlIlcef,
on the charge of numbering Baroness
d'Eliard. The lieutenant was subjected
to preliminary examination at the pre-
lecture of police. and, after denying
that he was guilty, was renanded. The
evidence submitted by the police was
about as follows: The baroness, it APP
pears, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
of Dec. was seated in the salon of the
apartment floor of the large and fully
Inhabited house which she occupied
with her son at No. : Boulevard de
Temple. close to the Place de la Con-
corde. Baroness d'Ellard was the
daughter of general OF the first en-
pire, widow of colonel of cuirassiers
of the guard, and was seventy-twO
years of age. She is described as a tall,
stately old lady, with snow-white hair,
and was held in much respect and es-
TEEN by her neighbOrS. Her son, Baron
d'Ellard, holds an important position on
the clerical staff of the minister of war,
NJ. de Freycinet He is about forty
years of age, retired army officer, and
knight OF the Legion of Honor.
Enter the Exquisite.
At the hour mentioned on Dec. a
young man of slight build, elegantly
dressed, wearing high silk hat and
carrying an avOcat's portOfoliO under
his arm, entered the doorway of the
house in which the baroness lived and
asked the porter where the apartment
of the baroness was situated. He was
informed that the baroness lived ON the
first floor, but the stranger went up to
the apartment Immediately above that
of the baroness and asked the servant
who answered the bell there if that was
| where Baroness d'Ellard lived.
He was informed that the baroness
lived on the floor below. whereupon he
descended the stairs to the first floor,
and was heard to ring the bell of the
baroness apartment. Here there was
lapse of short time, possibly five or six
minutes. at the end of which a servant
employed by the baroness violently
opened the window of the iatter'S dining
room, which opened into the courtyard
forming the interior of the building, and
pointing to the porch or archway lead
ing into the street, she cried, in choking
tones, Help. murder! stop him.
The poor servant girl, it was seen, had
deep wound on her throat, from which
the blood was pouring over the front of
her dress. The girls cries, however.
were at first too inarticulate to arouse
Immediate attention and alarm, and in
the meanwhile the murderer was able
to leave the baroness apartment and to
start down stairs.
Exit the EXecutIOmer.
On the porch, just as he was leaving
the house, the murderer met the con-
cierge, or porter's wife. and cOolly rec
commended her to close the front door, as
it seemed that something had happened
in the house. He then calmly stepped
into the street and the concierge closed
hn hi
then quickly mingled in the thrOng of
passers by and disappeared.
BY this time the baroness servant. i'll
spite of the gaping wound in her
throat, had managed to stumble, faint
from loss of blood, down stairs into the
courtyard, where she fell insenSible.
This caused the concierge to raise an
alarm, which brought number of peO-
pie to the spot, and the blOOd-SOaked
girl was carried up stairs to the apart
mentS of the baroness.
There frightful spectacle was dis
closed. The utmost disorder prevailed
in the dining hall room; all the cup
boards, desks and drawers had been
forced open and the contents were
streWn on the floor. In the bed room
adjoining was found the body of the
baroness, Ill her throat
a FrightfuI wound,
the head literally being almost cut
from the body. 1t was evident that her
death must have been almost instanta-
neOuS.
DeIphine HOurbe's Story.
The police were soon, summoned and
the first thing done was to save the life
of the unfortunate girl, which the sur
geOns were able 10 do in spite of the ter
rible wounds in her throat and the large
quantity of blood she had lost. When
she was recovered sufficiently TO answer
the questions put to her, the police were
able to set to work with a well-con-
nected story to guide them.
The murderer, who is supposed to
have been watching the house, was
aware that Baron d'Ellard had gone out
some time previously and knew when
Delphlne, the servant, left the d'Ellard
residence, that the old baroness was
alone. Consequently he entered the
house, as already described, and went
to the floor above the baroness, simply
to see if there was any possibility of be-
ing interrupted in his work. Thus,
when he rang the bell of the billiard
apartments it was the baroness herself
who opened the door to the assassin.
The latter, the investigation shows,
must have followed the baroness into
the bedroom of her son, to which place
the baroness apparently fed, terrified
by the murderer's threats. There the
murderer seems TO have seized his vic
tim and to have killed her by almost
seyering her head from her body. Then,
resolving to profit as much as possible
by the absence of the servant, the
murderer, according to the story as put
together by the police, began to ran
sack the apartments and prepared to
escape with all the yaluables he could
gather together
Another Victim Selected.
In this work, however, he was in
terrupted by the unexpected return of
the servant, Delphine HOurbe. Hastily
cOncealing himself, the murderer re-
solved to commit another murder in
order to insure his escape with the
booty and to provide against his detec-
ton. He allowed Delphine to enter the
kitchen, where. it being already dark,
she resolved to light the lamp without |
as yet having her suspicious aroused as
to there being anything wrong about the |
D'Ellard apartment.
When the lamp was lighted Delphine |
proceeded to her mistress room, when |
suddenly the lamp was knocked out of |
her grasp and she was seized from be- |
hind by the assassin, who at the same |
time stabbed her in the breast ana hast |
lily withdrawing the murderouS blade |
from the wound thus inflicted he cut |
the poor girls throat as she struggled |
desperately to free herself.
In her battle for life Delphine sue |
ceeded in tearing the murders knife |
from his hand, and it rolled to the |
ground and to some place where he |
could not find il in the dark. While he |
was hunting for this blood-stained |
weapon Delphine ran to the dining |
room window and raised the alarm. The |
murderer then saw that he had no time |