The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-05
MILE. MARsY's TESTIMONY.
Justice Has n Picturesque Side In
the French Courts.

the French Courts.
Paris Dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette.
mile. Matsyw shouted the announc-
ing usher of the Tenth chamber of the
correctional police, a comic parsonage ex-
actly like Coquelin cadet, with the same
voice and gait and the same trick of
showing the left upper teeth when speak
ing. There was a hush of expectation,
everybody but the judges stood on tiptoe,
the door leading to the witnesses waiting
room was opened wide. another sensa-
tional pause, and then, amid a hum of adj
miration, Their glided into court Mile.
Marsy, dressed in black. her hair dyed
pale gold, contrasting with the sallow COM
the eyebrows left their natural color.
1t was an admirable entree, worthy or
the best traditions of the Coincide Fran
caise 1t produced a deep impression upon
both judge and public. Coquelin cadet,
eager to be polite, handed over q chair
for Mile. Marsy to sit upon, and true to
his comic resemblance, nearly knocked
off the head-dreSs OF the prosecuting coun-
sci in so doing. BE seated, Mile, Marsy,"
said the judge, in his softest and most
insinuating accents. But, no; Mile. Marsy
preferred to stand up; she could not be
seen when she sat down; SO lifting her
hand in token of the oath she took to
speak the truth, she fell fainting into
the arms of COquelin cadet, who hap
pened to be behind her. Lucky man! The
prosecuting counsel looked envious, and
the judge gave a little sympathetic start
from his bench.
In moment or two the witness had re-
covered, and then, in the same low tones,
distinctly audible, however she proceeded
to demolish finally and forever the reputa-
sat, in the middle of the dock, almost on
the knees, ii seemed, of the municipal
guardsman guarding him from behind
with fixed bayonet. Armand Rosenthai,
THE Head of Baal on the Body of Bac-
chus,' neither thinned, as The papers said,
nor infirm, l thought, in spite of his two
sticks, poSsesSor of an admirable portli-
ness of almost ministerial majesty buJ
with coarse, heavy features, more of the
Assyrian than the Hebraic type, the nose
thick and fiat, the eye brown, passionless,
and specialized, a well set-up forehead ana
head, and lips, red, sensual, enormous,
never closed-the lips of the boy playing
bob-cherry in Mulready's picture, craving,
hckerish, voracious, the lips of the carp
in the castle moat at Chantilly, ever
extended to snap up the humping loaves
that visitors hurl to them. All the prls-
oners, with the exception of little Jacques
de Civry, were noticed, heavily Tipped,
and all had prominent noses.
They trembled with anxiety as Mile.
Marsy gave her damning evidence; they
writhed in an agony of appeal when Ros-
enthal begged, with tears in his voice
and his hands beating the air, that the
witness should not be believed. So great,
indeed, was his emotion that after Mile
Marsy's evidence he had to leave the
Next to him in the dock sat Labruyere.
a scowling, heavy-jawed fellow, with an
impudent, bullying air, the type of the
prevot of a second-rate fencing academy.
He enjoyed the moral support of his
friend, Nine. Severine, socialist and phil
anthropist, present among the witnesses.
her hair dyed deep mahogany red, and
her face buried in powder.
On Labruyere's left sat the enigmatic
Chiarasolo, a miniutive olive-skinned Cor
sican Jew, the eternal peddler And next
to him, pressed into the corner of the
dock, NJ. Carrie des Perrieres surveyed the
court with a shrewd, cat-like glance. Ces-
Il had had good deal to say before Mile
Marsy came in, and he spoke in a strange
voice, Insulating. caressing, deprecatory
very different from the stentorian clamor-
ings of Labruyere and RosenthaPs pas
sionate appeals, that were to come after
ward.
The two Counts at his side-the Counts
Uric and Jacques de Civry-completed the
little band OF prisoners. The grandsons of
former Duke of Brunswick, they natur-
ally bore themselves with a distinguished
air, beside the elder, with his strangely
handsome. aristocratic features. in which,
however, there seemed to be an !ndiscrib.