Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-01-28

waiting for them. M. Beaulieu was
at the Palais when he arrived
"Your name 2" he asked when the
prisoner was brought before him.
Jacques Velizay, thirty-three
years of age, foreign buyer for the
Bon Marche," replied Jacques
promptly.
"You are suspected of having as
sassinatud Jear Farades."
Suspected b. whom?"
"Silence! You were the last man
seen with the victim. What have
you to say row?"
l came with him from Calcutta. We
came to Paris on the same train. His
| nephews met him and we all went
together up the boulevards in a cab.
At about five o'clock they got out
and left"
"And you?"
"Jean Farades and I got back into
the same cab, and when we got to
the top of the boulevard near the
Porte st. Denis the horse fell down,
so we paid the cahman and walked
back. My friend asked me to direct
him to the Rue de Barque, which I
did, and then l left him.
| "Had he any baggage ?"
"No. All his luggage had been
sent on to Boulogne. He only carried
small handbag"
"What did you do them"
81 took. another cab and drove to
my y,,f firm"
your horse falling down, and then
he asking you the way to the Rue
de Banque. There now; you need
not get angry. II you are innocent
we shall soon be able to prove it."
M. Beaulieu touched bell. "Is
Millette, the excise employee, here
yet? Yes? Well, bring him in at
once"
Millette was brought face to face
with Velizay.
"Do you recognize this man ?"
asked the investigating judge.
"No. Never saw him BEFORE" re-
piled Millette.
Didn't this man pass by the ex-
else Office through the Boulogne
gates on the evening of the crime,
at the same hour as the man in the
red waistcoat
mo" replied Millette without
hesitation, "and with all due respect
to you, monsieur lie juge, You can't
make me say he did, if he didn't. If
he went through the gates l never
saw him."
M. Beaulieu was plainly disap-
pointed. He then gave some orders
in low voice to an attendant. He
intended to confront the accused
with the victim.
The morgue had been closed to the
public so that the police and the
prisoners could enter quietly without
being followed by crowd.
The investigating judge and Vel
izay stood on one side of the curtain
near to where the corpse lay.
Jacques had recognized his old
friend, but he had shown no undue
emotion. Millette stood with row
of detectives. AS sign from M.
Beaulieu the curtain was quickly
drawn on one side and the men who
were under suspicion for the muir
der stood face to face.
AS soon as the Farades brothers
saw Jacques Velizay they started
forward.
"That is the man who we last saw
with our uncle?" they cried stimuli
taneously.
NJ. Beaulieu wheeled round on
Millette.
"Do you still persist in saying that
you did not see this man on the day
Of the crime ?"
az did not see him." replied Mil
lette, rolling his eyes solemnly.
"That crime was not committed by
one man. I, shall have to detain all
Of you until your innocence can be
satisfactorily proven"
The two brothers seemed resigned,
but Velizay was indignant.
pardon, monsieur; but may be
permitted to prove that / am inno-
cent?" he asked sarcastically.
"Why have you waited so long ?"
Because I wanted to see how far
the stupidity of the French police
would 60. You might have saved
your men the trouble of getting up
at such an early hour to arrest me.
eff I listen to what you have to
say, you will have to show more re-
spect for the law-understand that,
monsieur?" .,t..
"'Ah, pardon. You have asked me
so many questions, will you allow me
to ask you one now? Has the
autopsy on the body been per-
formed?"
"Of course. Why?"
"Would you oblige me by inform
ing me at what hour death oc-
curred?" g.
"The doctors state that the victim
was strangled between half-past
eleven and midnight. 1t was after
death that he was thrown into the
WE'LL"
"Will you do me the favor to send
for the head of my firm, also one Of
the assistants, M. Paul Bourdin?"
"What light can they throw upon
the matter?"
Gall the light that is necessary
monsieur" replied Jacques, smiling
affably.
M. Beaulieu agreed to his request
The two men from the Bon Marche
arrived in short time.
"He thinks that through you he
can prove that he is innocent" sale