The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-18
CHAPTER VII.

3 CHAPTER VII.
: The murder of NJ. Revere, committed
in broad daylight in quarter of Pari
filed with life and movement, caused {
widespread sensation. There was Sc
much mystery mixed in the affair
What could be ascertained about the
dead mans life was very dramatically
written up by Paul Rodier in sketch,
and this, republished everywhere and
enlarged upon, soon gave to the crime
OF the Boulevard de Clichy the interest
of judicial romance. All that there
was of vulgar curiosity in man awoke
as atavistic bestiality at the smell of
blood
What was this M. Revere, former
consul TO Buenos Ayres or Havana, am
ateur collector of objects of vertu, men,
Der of the Society of Bibliophiles, where
he had not been seen for long time?
What enemy had entered his room for
the purpose of cutting his throat? Might
he not have been assassinated by some
thief who knew that his rooms contained
a collection of works of art? The fete at
Montmartre was often in full blast in
front of the house where the murder
had been committed, and among the
crowd of ex-prison birds and malefactors
who are always attendant upon foreign
kirmesses might not some one of them
have returned and committed the crime?
The papers took advantage of the occa-
sion TO moralize upon permitting these
tetes to be held in the outlying boule-
wards, where vice and crime seemed to
spring spontaneously from the soil
But no one, not one journal-perhaps
by order-spoke of that unknown visitor
whom Moniche called the individual
and whom the FORTRESS had seen stand
ing beside NJ Revere in front of the
open safe. Paul Rodier in his sketch
scarcely referred to the fact that Justice
had clew important enough to pene-
trate the mystery of the crime and in
the end arrest the murderer, and the
readers while awaiting DEVELOPMENTS
asked what mystery was hidden in this
murder. Moniche at times wore a fright
ened yet important air He felt that he
was an object of curiosity to many, the
center of preJudices The porter and his
wife possessed terrible secret. They
were raised in their own estimation.
we shall appear at the trial, " said
Moniche, seeing himself already before
the red robes and holding up his hand
to swear that he would tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth.
And as they sat together in their lit
tie lodge they talked the matter over
and over and brought up every incident
in M. Rovere's life which might have
bearing ON the case.
do you remember the young man
who came one day and insisted ON see.
ing Nj. lie Consult"
"Ah, very well indeedl'' said Mo
niche. II had forgotten that one--a felt
hat, his face bronzed and droll accent
He had come from away off somewhere.
He was probably a Spaniard. +"
Some beggar likely, poor devil
whom the consul had known in Ameri.
ca, in the colonies, one knows not
where
"a bad FACET said Moniche. IN
Revere received him, hu,
him aid, remember. If TIE -, Z. ma
had come often, l should think that
struck the blow, and also, ought {.
add, if there was not the other.''
Eyes, but there is the other" his
wife replied. There is the one whom |
saw standing in front of the coupons and
who was looking at those other papers
with flashing eyes, give my word
There is that one, Moniche, and | ar
willing to put my hand into the fire and
yours, too, Moniche, if it is not he -
If he is the one, he will be found"
"Oh, if he has disappeared? One
disappears very quickly in these days"
We shall see; we shall see Justice
reigns, and we are here He said that
I'VE are here" as a grenadier of the
guard before an important engagement.
They had taken the body to the
morgue. AT the hour fixed for the au-
topsy Bernardet arrived He seemed
much excited and asked M. Ginory il
since their conversation in M. Rovere's
library he had reflected and decided to
permit him to make the experiment.
the famous experiment reported for so
many years as useless, absurd, almost
ridiculous.
with any one but M. Ginory /
should not dare to hope" thought the
police officer, "but he does not sheer at
strange discoveries.
de had brought his Photographic APP
paratus, that kodak which he declared
was more dangerous to the criminal
than loaded weapon. He had develop
ed the negatives which he had taken,
and OF the three two had come out in
good condition The face of the MUIR
dered man appeared with clearness
which IN the proofs rendered IL formi.