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a beautiful necktie it makes? That was the signal. I pulled the cord, and in two minutes Goufe was no shore.
Then I took from the dead man his watch and chain, 150 francs in REMARKABLE STORY OF GABRIELLE in money, and his keys; and with the letter I rushed off to his office and ransacked it in search of the. large sum I expected to find there. An Ex-Official of Scotland Yard But in spite of all my searching I could not find a solitary franc. He writes in Reynolds Newspaper---
Was Gabrielle Bompard a cold-had evidently taken the precaution blooded marderess, or was she the to remove the money for once- hypnotised victim of that arch probably to his bank; and I had bad scoundrel, Michel Eyraud? Such was all my trouble for nothing. The the question that was debated from crime was a għastly failure."
It was important now to get rid of end to end of France a generation ago: and it still remains unanswered. the body and destroy all evidence of But if Gabrielle was not capable of the crime. With Gabrielle's help cruel and calculated murder, there the dead man was placed in the bag were few lesser crimes of which she she had made for the purpose, and Then, was not capable, for she was beyond pushed into the trunk doubt a moral pervert of a particular-leaving Gabrielle to spend the night. y dangerous type. The daughter of alone with the gruesome luggage. a well-to-do and highly respected Eyrand returned to his own lodgings, Lille merchant, she had every advant-where, worn out with fatigue, he age of beauty, cleverness and early slept heavily.
When Gabrielle was asked later training to equip her for an honour- able and happy life. But as a child what her sensations were during this vicious and unruly, and night of horrible vigil she said, with she was adept at all forms of deceit, with a a reminiscent smile, "You would passion for finery and young men. never guess what a funny idea came She was expelled from school after into my head! You see it was not So I school as an incorrigible and a polin very pleasant for me being tete-a- ter of the morals of her school feltete lows, and at eighteen she crowned a thought what fun it would be. shameless girlhood by cloping with to go into the street and pick Michel Eyraud, a debauche of forty-up some respectable gentleman from six whose life had been one sequence the provinces. I'd bring him.up to of vices and crimes.
Such was Gabrielle Bompard's career to the time when she came under the influence of one of the biggest scoundrels in France, whose name was to be associated with hers as perpetrators of one of the most carning, dastardly, and mysterious murders in the annals of crime.
with
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the room myself; and, just as he was beginning to enjoy himself, say, Would, you like to see a bailiff?" Open the trunk suddenly, and, bafore he could recover from his horror, run out into the street and fetch the police Just think what a fool the respectable, gentleman would have looked when the officers came!"
The following morning Byrand and AN UNSCRUPULOUS PAIR
Gabrielle travelled with their grim They were well mated, this pair of
some ten miles from Lyons, where degenerates. They were kindred luggage to Millery, a small town spirits who allowed no scruples to they deposited it in a wayside thicket. stand in the way of their wishes; and we soon find them living luxuri Then they returned to Paris, raised ously on the profits of Gabrielle's 2,000 francs, and crossed the Channel immorality. And when this method to England, on their way to America
and fancied safety. failed to keep their purse supplied as
THE ROADMENDER'S DISCOVERY. generously as they wished, they
Two weeks later, on August 13, à GOLE plotted to add murder and robbery
roadmender, attracted by 46-07- to their programme. Whether or not, as she later swore and protested, pleasant scell, which proceeded Gabrielle was Eyraud's tool, hyp-from a thicket by the roadside on MR. J. into helpless surrender to bis the outskirts of Millery, desidera
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will and in terror of her own life, we the remains of what had evidently know not. We know, however, that been a human body. A short dis in the summer of 1889 they planned tance away he found fragments of a the diabolical crime which made large trunk, and a key which fitted them infamous for ever; and this is the lock of the trunk; and at once the clever way they proceeded to hastened to Lyons to report bis.
horrible discovery to the police. carry it into execution.
It was obvious to the Lyons police Early in July they went together to London, and in the West End that a murder of a particularly purchased a large travelling trunk, brutal type had been committed, and several yards of cord, a pulley, a they suspected that the remains were fortnight silk girdle, and, finally, twenty yards those of a M."Gouffe, whose myster of packing-cloth, from which, onious disappearance about their return to Paris, Gabrielle pro- earlier had been reported from Paris; ceeded to make a large bag. In Eer and who, it was feared, had been new apartment in the Rue Tronson- the victim of foul play. But this Ducoudray was a curtained alcove, suspicion, which was shared by the containing a bed, and on the beam Paris detectives, was seriously shaken from which the curtain was suspend- when one of Gouffe's relatives appear- ed Eyraud fixed the pulley and the ed at Lyons and failed to identify rope, at the end of which was a the remains.
When M. Goron, head of the Paris swivel All that.now remained was
to choose the victim whom they detective force, himself went to Lyons were to lure to robbery and death; to investigate the affair on the spot, and the choice fell on a M. Gouffe a be found that the remaks had well-to-do bailiff and widower, and already been buried; and a young promiscuous doctor who had taken some hairs Gabrielle's of one
from the head of the corpse before lovers.
Gouffe, who lived with his three its interment triumphantly produced daughters in the Rue Rougemont, them, showing that they were black was in the habit of spending every and long while it was known that Friday night away from home, on M. Gouffe's hair was auburn and which occasions he left any large worn short sum of money he had collected dur
M. Goron, however, was by no
ing the day in his office; and it was means satisfied
that the hair not that of the missing. Calling for some
a Friday evening that Gabrielle, in a was flattering letter, invited Gouffe to bailiff after all. spend with her in her new apparte- distilled water, he soaked the lock in it for a few minutes, thoroughly cleans- ment.
At a quarter to eight," as Eyranded it, and proved to the astonished confessed later, "there was a ring doctor that the seemingly black hairs at the bell, and I concealed myself were really auburn. Thas encourag- behind the curtain. Gouffe came in, ed in his suspicions, he had the body. You have a charming little nest exbumed, and was able to prove here, he said as he entered the from certain peculiarities such as an room. "Yes' replied Gabrielle, quite injury to the right ankle, and the sweet, isn't it? It is a fancy of mine. absence of a particular front tooth- Eyraud knows nothing about it that the remains were most certainly
Oh!'exclaimed Gouffe, with a laughs, those of the missing bailiff;- 'so you're tired of him at last, are you? Yes, she answered, thank goodness, all's over between, as long
"A BRAUTIFUL NECKTIE.
(Continued on Page 10.)
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