a sum of 14,000 francs that was lying behind some papers, and returned,
baffled and despairing, to his mistress and the corpse. The crime had
been a ghastly failure. Fortified by brandy and champagne, and with the
help of the woman, Eyraud stripped the body, put it into the bag that
had been sewn by Gabrielle, and pushed the bag into the trunk. Leaving
his mistress to spend the night with their hateful luggage, Eyraud
returned home and, in his own words, "worn out by the excitement of the
day, slept heavily."

The next day Eyraud, after saying good-bye to his wife and daughter,
left with Gabrielle for Lyons. On the 28th they got rid at Millery of
the body of Gouffe and the trunk in which it had travelled; his boots
and clothes they threw into the sea at Marseilles. There Eyraud borrowed
500 francs from his brother. Gabrielle raised 2,000 francs in Paris,
where they spent August 18 and 19, after which they left for England,
and from England sailed for America. During their short stay in
Paris Eyraud had the audacity to call at the apartment in the Rue
Tronson-Ducoudray for his hat, which he had left behind; in the hurry of
the crime he had taken away Gouffe's by mistake.

Eyraud had been brought back to Paris from Cuba at the end of June,
1890. Soon after his return, in the room in which Gouffe had been done
to death and in the presence of the examining magistrate, M. Goron, and
some fifteen other persons, Eyraud was confronted with his accomplice.
Each denied vehemently, with hatred and passion, the other's story.
Neither denied the murder, but each tried to represent the other as the
more guilty of the two. Eyraud said that the suggestion and plan of the
crime had come from Gabrielle; that she had placed around Gouffe's neck
the cord that throttled him. Gabrielle attributed the inception of the
murder to Eyraud, and said that he had strangled the bailiff with his
own hands.

Eyraud, since his return, had seemed indifferent to his own fate;
whatever it might be, he wished that his mistress should share it. He
had no objection to going to the guillotine as long as he was sure that
Gabrielle would accompany him. She sought to escape such a consummation
by representing herself as a mere instrument in Eyraud's hands. It was
even urged in her defence that, in committing the crime, she had
acted under the influence of hypnotic suggestion on the part of her
accomplice. Three doctors appointed by the examining magistrat