The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-11-18


the publisher was taking out of his
business. Bertrand had proposed to
certain capitalists that they should
help him get control of the business
which, as he himself stated, could be
made very profitable affair.
HE told me that If there were no
Mr.. Beaudry taking large amounts,
the business would be excellent" tes-
titled Noel =. Lanoix, one of the CAPT
tafists who had been approached by
Bertrand.
A few days after the discovery Of
Joseph Beaudry, and before the fu-
neral Of the murdered man, Bertrand
had again mooted the matter to Mr..
Lanoix, according to the witness who
appeared at the preliminary hearing
of the accused.
did he make any suggestion to you
as to buying the business n asked the
crown prosecutor.
"Since the murder, he asked me II
there was any possibility of my be.
ing able to return and aid him."
when was that3"
'Some days after the murder"
Rely on Blind Man.
At the approaching trial the crown
will recall this witness and others in
an attempt to prove that Bertrand, in
cold blood, assassinated his employer
In the hope that, with him out of the
way, there would be possibility Of
the salaried employee becoming, with
the aid Of friends, the controlling pro-
prietor of the business. They will at
tempt to prove that Bertrand made
an appointment to meet Beaudry at
an hour when he knew all the staff
would have left the building.
When Beaudry was sitting at his
desk, having turned to work after dis
missing peremptorily his visitor, the
latter, the crown will allege, had
turned as he reached the door Of the
office and, pulling a revolver from his
pocket, had fired two bullets into the
body of the publisher from behind.
Then the crown will ask the jury to
believe that Bertrand calmly closed
the office door, left the premises and
proceeded to his home to have lunch
with his wife and son.
To support their case the prosecu-
ton will rely principally upon the
Identification Of Bertrand by the blind
storekeeper. The revolver has disap-
peared and probably is resting at the
bottom Of the st. Lawrence river.
But before the weapon was sold a
friend of Mr.. Mulhollin tried it out by
firing into fence post in the rear Of
the blind mans store. From that
fence post a bullet has been recovered
and 1t bears certain scratches made by
the barrel of the revolver which, the
crowns experts will testify, are iden-
teal with marks on the bullets re-
covered from the body of the dead
publisher.
First Time In History.
Perhaps for the first time in the his
tory of crime, a case is being built up
on the evidence of a blind man.
Upon the decision of the jury rests
the life of a man and also the future
of great business. Bertrand, ac-
quilted, might confidently count on the
backing necessary to gain for him the
control Of the publishing house which
issues various periodicals and trade
papers widely circulated through
French Canada and the French Cana
dian populations in the New England
states. The crown will try to prove
that the motive behind the murder Of
Beaudry was the ambition OF Bertrand
to wrest control away from the man
whom he believed was drawing too
heavily on the business and thereby
endangering it's continued success.
Back Of the fight are to be seen
the figures of two women. One, the
widow of Beaudry, childless and burn
ing with desire for revenge on the
man who snatched her husband FROM
her. The other is the wife Of Ber-
trand, fighting to defend her husband
against the charge against him. She
has one son whose future is involved
in the case. He is on the verge of
manhood. He might embark on busi-
ness career as the son Of prosperous
man controlling profitable business.
In the alternative, if she loses her
fight, her son enters on life branded as
the child of a criminal.
His wife believes in Bertrand and
SO do many Of his business associates
who have rallied to provide bail for
him did the law in Cananda permit
the enlargement of men charged with
capital offenses.