Sieur and Dame de Saint
Faust de Lamotte, from whom he had bought the said estate by private
contract on the twenty-second day of December 1775, and also of having
unworthily abused the hospitality shown by him since the sixteenth day of
December last towards the aforesaid Dame de Lamotte, who arrived in Paris
on the aforesaid day in order to conclude with him the bargain agreed on
in December 1775, and who, for this purpose, and at his request, lodged
with her son in the house of the said Derues, who of premeditated design
poisoned the said Dame de Lamotte, whether by a medicine composed and
prepared by him on the thirtieth day of January last, or by the beverages
and drinks administered by him after the aforesaid medicine (he having
taken the precaution to send his servant into the country for two or
three days), and to keep away strangers from the room where the said Dame
de Lamotte was lying), from the effects of which poison the said Dame de
Lamotte died on the night of the said thirty-first day of January last;
also of having kept her demise secret, and of having himself enclosed in
a chest the body of the said Dame de Lamotte, which he then caused to be
secretly transported to a cellar in the rue de la Mortellerie hired by
him for this purpose, under the assumed name of Ducoudray, wherein he
buried it himself, or caused it to be buried; also of having persuaded
the son of the above Dame de Lamotte (who, with his mother, had lodged in
his house from the time of their arrival in Paris until the fifteenth day
of January, last,--and who had then been placed in a school that the
aforesaid Dame de Lamotte was at Versailles and desired him to join her
there, and, under this pretence, of having conducted the said younger
Sieur de Lamotte, the twelfth day of February (after having given him
some chocolate), to the aforesaid town of Versailles, to a lodging hired
at a cooper's, and of having there wilfully poisoned him, either in the
chocolate taken by the said younger Sieur de Lamotte before starting, or
in beverages and medicaments which the said Derues himself prepared,
mixed, and administered to the aforesaid Sieur de Lamotte the younger,
during the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth days of February
last, having kept him lying ill in the aforesaid hired room, and having
refused to call in physicians or surgeons, notwithstanding the progress
of the malady, and the representations made to him on the subject, sa