The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-06
SERVED MANY YEl4|
THOUGH ||NIlI}
oiro''mstantial Evidence :.
Mornat Farmer Into pn,'
servituds.
PARDON AFTER II ~.
Case Recalls Famous sta,
Murder of the Courier !
Lyons.
PARDON AFTER II n,
BY PAUL vILLIgas

some respects may be likensa !,
OF Captain Dreyfus has come /,
here through an inqu.r,
After serving seventeen vs,,.
servitude for a crime he aid /.
nit Charles Michaud. farms, i
nat, has mad his innocence l.a,
tablished at the assizs a.,
Bourges.
Michaud lived close to a,
man, who was found one mou..
his throat cut. A cr2yat m,i.
near the body was declared "A
TO Michaud. On his arrest 4,
ly protested his iunocencs. ~
nesses declared they had .;su M
in the neigh hborhood Of .ue ~
house at the time the crime u,
mitted, and Michaud was coasb,
After fourteen years Of hi, h,
gone by ii tue penal col0ny a,
another convict confessed To hnL
prisoner that be was the an
Michnud demanded reyisiss
trial. which was granted thrs
ago. This mas Just been sa,ni
and after the hearing Of IKo II
jury were clearly satisfied thai
innocent, and he has accordiabs
set AT liberty.
Michaud received a gIes, o7,6
leaving the court For his losf
Of undeseryed punishment be iu
awarded 5000 as c0mpensaiioI
Innocent Msn E1scusa
This city is one of the grut1
versions and pleasures. bur !sv
its tragic side. A sad lllIs 4
told at the famous cemetery
Chaise. which may be OF irtsrtit
/ the toiab OF Abelard and H,ldp
is simple white stone inscnbA
touching epi'aph. - Ia nsi
Joseph Lesurques, une vl,iti
plus deplcrab!e des ereuIs,
DECIDE, Octobre 81. 1886" ID
viction of this man and his tIl
for a murder Of which ne vas Y
~ innocent, suggested one 'f y
popular dramas ever vri,te,
| Courier de Lyons. Under ta
the play was produced upon ~
stage in 1850 at the Galetc ilara
The story is true one aud y
this Joseph LesuTques bore
able likeness to R mehwayEi
this fact alone was inc eara
death. The courier Of Lyss
been murdered and wneu ~
/ respectable citizen dropped n
court of Justice TO Learn th' =
the unwonted excitemer, 2 m,
the crime called out, =" f'st
murderer now," and Legurqas
once arrested. His conrlclloa
cution followed. The ONLY "
tended to him was pcrNisos
lish in the annals Of the ass
thetic plea to the real cIlnIa
mercy. "You, to me nkne.
YOU rest content with the iso
nv body' You. in whose aa
to die, think Of my vie -
children on whom the InfanI
death must fall. Rest conlss,
nnu bTt should corseiencs ~
to terminate the misfortu1s y
the fatal likeness which ! pSE
then, come to my aid. M
later tbe murderer. Dabost,
gave himself up, made fuli e g
and was executed on Chlls'-
ing. and that same day Iae
vas VAS nlaced to commemorate tl
of justice, u,
The "'Courier OF LYONS y y
ward produced in England .s.1 ~
Charles Kean both astonlsnsa,
Tended his admirers by sne'IT, ~,
self in the dual role VIE ss,i s
as support. This kesp Nm
such success that Lelga I I'M
iect which ran year .. s.;usI iu
Then came the Lyeeuin is,S Ie,. n
one years later by the A.u 70,
frv,ng, whose adaptation W. 4,
Charles Reade and renamsu sn,rs
Mail. The cast was u siI is,rIl
containing Ellen Terry 40 H.
iiam Terriss as Courriol, Nv
dez as ChoppaId and JeslMI JelsIs
as the child Of LesnrqIlee.s-,tors le.,-,tors
While as regards hIeis ,sa d
LYONS Mail" did not prol@
a dramatic production II wan, y, M
situation and so full 81 s.,S shs7t
EST that there were ts" ",.neJtsil
~ hr. n,rad aiSins off so effectively ~ y
Gus versatility, He mauS uS ii.
tuous man Lesuroles 5aia.tS;uel aaS 4
Dubosc, two entirely aisIss az, rssss
he;t With the same facnlais !n is'Ses I
temptible scoundrel. 3 ane sanls,,,ouss ,o
nified expression of s Les'.SSe .Se ia
ans almost .umIS ump1il have been p0rtIIsay,ss
same man. A star'ia95s star'a;5 q
introduced by the s'u s:u,qs !
whereby the two men, a.h otha :
D,,bosc confronted eaen w n