The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-24

gled in her bed, as Eugene Fougere had
been,
The CHASTITY finds were made at o'clock
in the morning by neighbors hearing the
groans of the survivor, Giriat. Robbery
had evidently been the motive for the
crime, as Eugenie's room was in a state
of understandable disorder. Dresses, hats,
ball wraps, all of the latest style and
from the most noted Paris dressmakers,
had been torn from drawers and closets,
caskets and boxes of all descriptions had
been broken open; not a cent of ready
money remained in the house, and all of
Eugenie's jewels, valued at 100000, had
vanished.
The only clue left by the robbers was
the presence of three empty wine glasses
on the diningroom table, from which it
was presumed that the crime had been
committed by gang of three.
At first suspicion was so far from fall
ing on the companion Giriat that CHART
able people opened subscription in her
favor, and soon presented her with $l20
to console her for her grief in losing her
mistress and her place But the detectives
began to watch the woman closely. When
found she was indeed tightly bound and
in frightfully nervous state, but it
seemed odd that she, in an adjoining room,
should have been spared, whereas the
maid on the floor below had been killed
Giriat explained this by saying that the
murderers meant to kill her, too. "It was
only my Roman nose that saved me-" she
declared. "They tied the gag tight to
smother me as they had done with poor
Eugene and Lucie, the maid; they had no
idea that l could survive" But FRUSTRATED
as she was supposed to be, Giriat, left
alone, was within the space of three hours
after her release from the ropes, able to
write to her sister long letter, in which
her handwriting gave no sign of tremb-
ling. The police concealed their suspi-
cions and let Giriat go in supposed free
dom, keeping the while strict watch on
her, which she was far from suspecting.
First. Giriat began paying off debts
which had been standing for years; then
declarations of Giriat, who throws the act
i've performance on him, claiming to have
been merely an accomplice and feigning
Ignorance that Eugene was to be killed,
leave him little hope Of escape.
From the facts brought together the
crime seems to have been committed as
follows:
Eugene Foupgere and lRosalie Giriat
"SAS W ~ W bhC bIltdICT Ol the evening
of September 10, leaving only the maid
Lucie Marie, in the villa, which was $50
lated in park on the outskirts of the
town. From the autopsy of Lucie's body
it was ascertained that she had been
'smothered by means of pillows in her bed
somewhere between II o'clock and mid
night, so she must have been got out OF
the way before Eugenie's return with CT.
riat at o'clock Eugene at once went to
her room, undressing with the help OF
| Giriat, who withdrew afterwards The
murderers, evidently in hiding in an ad.
joining ROOM gave her time to get into
bed; then they ran in upon her.
"She fought hard and they had to call
me in to help" Giriat confded to friend
the day before her arrest. "When she
saw they were going to kill her, Eugene
fell on her knees and implored them to
spare her, saying they should take every
thing in the house. She did not reeog-
nize me; the lamp had been put out. But
she was not needed. She died hard; it
took good quarter of an hour to smother