Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-13

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~, the great world Of Paris liter
~. IN" fought for place at the murder trIal
o. a'' Michel Eyraud and his beautiful
s,,.rl and accomplish. Gabrielle Bonn
nar1 supposedly under hypnotic inhu-
l r told the details Of the crime for
s'.i,h she had served IA years OF the
., ,,sars' sentence OF imprisonment to
.hi.n she had been originally con-
Samrod. says Golfers Weekly. The IN
.,5srt was regarded with much interest
=. ,,s parlsans as the final chapter OF
murder particularly picturesque even
cpv Of which the criminal records
90 rich in sensations as the Bois Is
a, green leaves on June day But TO
~. world at large this hypnotic per-
,n,,,,rce was looked upon as an afair
=, sone moment, as practical demon
s,roton which showed the tremendous
,ossblllues Of the use OF g hypnotic
,,rco os means of extracting evidence
from the principals and witnesses In a
criminal procedure
Tho sensation caused by the trial of
Michel Eyraud and Gabrielle Bompard
can the more easily be ascribed to the
norsonallty Of the chief actor In the
,r.gedy rather than to the crime Itself.
ryraud was a man of some education
9th a brutal face and an lnordlnaie
vanity inspired by his successes with
vomen whose social status was but
slightly superior to his own But all
paris loves lover, and so when the
arm Of Justice had reached out and
placed this lowest of criminals safeIy
IN the dock the women of Paris fiocked
~ hear the evidence which eventually
condemned him to the guilotine. 1t was
the same form Of morbid ad ration
which has inspired women In this
country TO send their photographs and
lunches OF flowers to the kind OF Grim
mails who revel IN their misdeeds and
walk to the gallows with a smile on
their lips,
Eyraud had been wholesale wine
dealer in bordeaux. He afterwards
changed his field Of operations to Paris,
and when he advertised for young
woman to assist him In his office work,
Gabrielle Bompard was accepted as the
most likely candidate for the position.
Perhaps ne had the power Of Sven
gall, or perhaps he was only a man
with that peculiar Virtue or lack Of II
that attracts certain women but the
result was the same-in an absurdly
short space Of time this young pretty,
girl was ready and willing to do all he
babe her. According to the evidence of
the trial she decoyed an inoffensve
hussler, NJ. Gouffe, into her apart
ments, She sat by his side on sofa
thoughtfully placed In front OF some
harmless looking curtains suspended
from securely fastened wooden rod.
few minutes later, according TO the
statement Of Michael Eyraud himself,
he pulled on the belt Of Mile. Bompard's
wrapper, which had been tied about NJ.
Goufte's neck and passed over the
wooden rod, while the lady tugged at
The visitors legs In order TO expedite
the choking process. The body Of their
victim was packed In a trunk and the
two criminals started for Lyons with
their grewsoDe burden From Lyons
they went to Marseilles and then back
10 Paris.
As sdelight on Eyraud's power
over the girl an interesting detail was
disclosed at the trial to the effect that
the murderer had induced the girl TO
return TO the apartment where the
murder had been committed for the sole
purpose Of obtaining an old hat which
he had inadvertently left behind.
Their crime became the cause celebre
OF the day, and after the discovery Of
the trunk with Gouffe's body IN II, they
were suspected of being the murderers
and fed TO America, pursued by the
two French detectives, Galllarde and
SOudais but no trace of them could
be found, and the French police officers
returned to Paris. In the meantime
Eyraud abused Gabrielle and she left
him In San Francisco for man named
Garanger Then she came home and