Charlevoix county herald., 1914-11-14

Outside the door stood valentine
and Jeanne. The girls gave
startled cry when they saw their
friends, and then, regardless of the
looks of those around them, they
flung themselves into the arms of
their lovers.
I'VE thought you were dead. We
read that you had died of cholera"
they said b-okenly between cheir
sobs.
Fadejah fixed her large eyes on
Jeanne's pretty, fearful face and
then on the face of the men she
loved. She drew in her lips sharply,
as though the sight of their happi-
ness caused her physical suffering.
Arthur Fa2ades attorney was
pleading his clients case when the
courtroom door suddenly opened.
The crowd round the door refused
to let pass a group of people who
had entered.
NJ. Beaulieu had to be recognized
by the court attendants before pas
sage could be made for them. When
a space was cleared, the two friends,
with Fadejah beside them, walked
up to the witness-stand.
At the same time Nj. Beaulicu
placed officers at each exit of the
courtroom. The four crooks, when
they saw the two men with Fadejah
turned livid.
Jacques pointed to them with his
finger, and called out in voice that
could be heard all over the hall:
"These are the men who murdered
Jean FaradeS."
"Who are you, sir?" asked the
presiding Judge.
Jacques told the Judge that he had
some important testimony to give.
The Judge told him to take the wit
ness stand.
The facts were given to the Judge,
and the discriminating letters were
placed before him.
Before Jacques had been on the
witness stand many minutes four
men rose to leave the court room.
"Thcy are the assassins of Jean
Farades," said Jacques again, point
ing to them.
The court room was in an uproar.
The judge pounded on his desk to
impose silence. When the gendarmes
had surrounded the men who had
tried to escape Jacques continued
his testimony.
Then the Judge studied all the
proofs that had been given to him.
The handwriting was the same, the
stamps were the same.
But this receipt that the police
found in your own safe-how did it
come into your hands ?" asked the
judge.
paul Merseins and / found it one
night at the bottom of the WELL" an
swered Jacques.
"Why did you not give it up to
the police ?"
Because we had not much con-
fidence in the use they would make
of it," he replied.
There was general laugh
throughout the court room.
After the Judge had carefully ex-
amined all the proofs he called out
to the gendarmes to arrest the four
men-Calesse, Percheret, Smith aid
Girodet.
"That is not ALL" continued JAG
ques. THE man who wrote that let
ter is also poisoning his wife. This
woman is Nine. andre Calesse."
All eyes were turned upon Fade
jah, who stood pale and rigid, her
dark eyes fixed upon her husband.
"Yes," size said: ''he has been
slowly putting me to death"
"Iu is falseW shouted Calesse.
"She had several doctors, but they
did not know what was the matter
with her"
"Silence" ordered the Judge.
NJ. Beaulicu stood up and handed
the Judge the bottle of poison that
had been delivered at Calesse's
house that very day.
The judge turned to Fadejah.
"You hear Jacques Nelizay's tes-
timony. Will you tell US what you
know, madame ?"
Fadejah pointed to Smith.
"He is the greater william of the
two" she said in weak, quavering
voice. Il was only dancer in Cal
cutta; but, as years went by, | be-
came famous and | married Andre
Calessu. He was poor; | was rich
Up till then he had never committed
a crime; but he associated himself
with Smith, and one night they
killed man in Smiths villa on the
Ganges. Since then these two men
have led criminal lives"
"Fadejahw 1t was Calesse VINO
called It.
Eve wish you to speak of the
crime, madame" said the Judge
"the muir ,er of Jean Farades."
"My husband had been expecting
Jean Farades, and when he arrived
in France he called at his office in
the Rue de Banque. He dined with
us that night, and Calesse and Pech-
eret drugged him. left them early
about eleven o'clock.
Later | had occasion to go down.
stairs. As ] went past the dining
room the door was slightly ajar, and
| saw Jean Farades lying on the
floor, and Calesse and Pecheret bend
ing over him. They had stifled him.
81 went back to my room terrified.
Soon | heard some one leaving the
house, and / looked out of my win
dow and saw Calesse and Pecheret
going down the garden, carrying a
body. ! have spoken The truth"
There was a tense silence in the