Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-11-06
The Crime of s''E;:;; e: :
a e. ssls the Boulevard

SuIIlClilct Information 10 ctldDie NLL' -
arrest a murderer IN the morning m .
wretched hovel at Ia Yilette-l MUIR
derer armed to the teeth. It was Ber
nardet who, without arnls-as all those
! a~gentS-caught the famous bandit. the
noted Taureau de la GiaCiere. a fOreigr
Hercules who had strangled his mis-
tress. Bernardet arrested him by hold.
ing 10 his temple the cold neck OF a
bottle and saying. Hands up or I frel'
Now what the bandit took for the cold
muzzle OF a pistol was a vial containing
some medicine which BernaTdet had
purchased of Il pharmacist for his liver.
Deeds OF Valor against thieves, male
factors and insurreCttonists abOunded In
Bernardet's life, and NJ. Ginory had just
discovered In this man, whom he be-
lieved simply endowed with the activity
and keenness OF a hunting dog. an In
telligence ~singularly watchful, deep and
complicated. Bernardet. who had moth
Ing more To do until the body should
be k 10 the mOrsue left the house
directly after the magistrates.
Where are o going?" asked Paul
Rodier, the reporter.
"Home-a few steps from here
May | go along with you?' asked
the journalist.
ITO find an occasion TO make me
speak? But / know nothing. I suspect
nothing. | shall say nothing"
DO you believe that It is the work
of a thief or revenge"
II am certain that il was no thief.
Nothing in the apartment was touched.
As for the rest, who knows?"
m. Bernardet," laughingly said the
reporter as he walked along by the
officers side, you do not wish to
speak"
What good will that do?" Bernardet
replied, also laughingly. 1T viii %
prevent you from publishing an inter
view"
You think so. Au reyoirl I must
hurry n make my copy. And yOu2'
II? A photograph
They separated, and Bernardes en-
tered his house. His daughters had
grieved over his sudden departure on
Sunday his fete day. They met him
with joyous shouts when he appeared
and threw themselves Upon him. Papa,
Here is papa"
Mime. Bernardet was also happy.
They could go then to the garden and
finish the picture. But their joy sub
sided; night had fallen, and Bernar-
Diet, preoccupied, wished to shut him
self up SO that he might reflect on all
that had happened. and perhaps to
work a little, even today.
1T is thy fete day, Bernardet. Wit
thou not rest today"
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then | must use the tim reading over
a mass of evidence
Then thou wilt need a lamp" asked
Nine. Bernardet.
Yes my dear. Light the lamp"
Next TO their bedchamber nj. Ber-
nardet had fitted up a little room for
his private use. 1t was a tiny den. i'm
which was a mahogany table loaded
with books n papers, and at which
he worked when he had time, reading.
a~nnotating. copying from the papers
and collecting extracts for hours at a
time. No one was allowed to enter this
room, filed with old papers. Nine.
Bernardet well called II "a nest Of mi
crobes.' Bernardet found pleasure in
this sporadic place. which I'm summer
was sitting. IN winter he worked with
out a fire.
Mime. Bernardet was unhappy as she
saw hat their holiday was spoiled. But !
she very well knew that when her
husband was devoured with curiosity.
carried away by a desire to eluCidate a
puzzle. there was nothing TO be said.
He listened 20 no remonstrances, and
the daughters knew tina when they
asked If their fathe was not coming
to renew his games with them they
were obliged to content themselves with
the excuse which they knew so well
from having heard ii so often. Papa is
studying out a crime"
Bernardet was anxious TO read over
his notes, the y~erification of his hopes.
of those so-called certainties OF TODAY
is why he wished to be alone. AS
soon as he a closed the door he at
once. from among the piles Of
laden books and files of old news
with the unnering instinct Of
the habitual searcher who rummages
through bookstalls, drew forth a gray
covered pamphlet in which he had read. |
vita feyerish establishment, the expert
and report OF DIR. Vernois upon
the application of photography In Grim
inal researches. He quickly seated him
self. and with trembling fingers eagerly
turned over the leaves OF the book SO
often read and studied and came to the
report of the member OF the academy
of medicine. He compared it with the
proof submitted by DR.. Bourbon OF the
medical society, in which 1t was stated
that the most learned savants had seen
nothing.
Seen nothing or wished TO see moth
ing perhaps" he rmu
The light fell upon the photograph
which had been sent a long time before
to the society. and Bernardet set him
self to study out the old crime with the
most careful attention, with the pas
sion of a photographer d%eciphering a
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officer, in his ardent desire to solve the
vexing problem, brought to it the same
ardor and the same faith as a biblio-
phile. He went over and over with the
method of an examining magistrate all
that old forgotten affair, and In the
solitude and silence of his little room
the last reflections of the setting sun
falling on his papers and making pale
the light of his lamp, he set himself the
task OF solving. like a mathematical
problem, that question which he had
studied, but which he wished to know
from the very beginning. without any
doubts, before seeing NJ. Ginory again
at the morgue beside the body OF M.
Revere. He took then his pamphlet
and read: The photograph sent to the
society OF medical Jurisprudence by DR..
Bourbon, taken upon the retina of the
eye of a woman who had been MUIR
dered the 14th of June, 1868, represents
the moment when the assassin. after
having struck the mother. kills the In
FAINT. and the dog belonging to the
house leaps toward the unfortunate lit
tie victim 10 say It,"
Then. studying turn by turn the pho
tograph yellowed by time and the ar
ticle which described 1t. Bernardet sat
isfied himself and learned the history
by heart.
NJ. Gallard, general secretary OF the
society, after having carefully hidden
the back part OF the photograph, had
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