FETE TO MURDERESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 975, 22 August 1903, Page 4

FETE TO MURDERESS.

GIVEN by; MEN OF MARK

Paris, July G. Gabrielle Bompard, a pardoned

murderess, is receiving- much atten-

tion from prominent men, the matter becoming a scandal. At a big’ /bYealffast given in a leading hotel, and attended by many, meil llUKlll ill •the public eye, there were wine, music, and adulation for the pretty

sweet-faced murderess, capping the

climax to a series of entertainments provided for this heartless wanton, a Zolaeslque creature from the lowr est depths of Parisian vice. .The spectacle .of men called honest at the feet of a confessed strangler and woman of s'liame involves San-

tos-Dumont and other persons widely known, though they now seek to excuse themselves by declaring that the dinner was quite impromptu. (Newspapers i contain cartoons showing society people telephoning to each other saying : “ Do come to .my five o’clock tea. Gabrielle Bompard will bee there ; she is too sweet for Anything.” Michael Eyraud, the scoundrel who with Gabrielle, Bompard, strangled to death the pleasure-seeking, .Gouffe, ior purposes of roßbery, expiatedhis crime under the guillotine knife. The woman deserted the murderer, when he became penniless, and for some unknown reason informed on him. She has been pardoned after serving twelve years out of a sentence of twenty-one years, and she is now, having the gayest time of all her wicked life. _ The murderer stated before h s execution ; 1,! Gabrielle was a wonder, even to me. She coolly removed the silken cord of her wrapper and passed it to me in my hiding-place ; I made a noose in it. Then she lured him beneath a bar ; he was too much concerned with her blam ’dishments to notice me.. The silken cord had been passed through block and tackle, and while I kept one end of it Gabrielle slipped .the noose around the neck of Goufie. Then'as I drew the cord tight, she with her little hands pressed down on him to cause him to struggle quicker. Eyraud and her spent the night in the room with the corpse, and they afterwards managed to rid themselves of it by, taking it with them in a trunk, and later on throwing it into a ditch. ■ The perpetrators would never have •been discovered if Ga'brielle had not taken up with a new lovor ; it is supposed that she was frightened of Everaud then, and thought in impli eating him she herself would be allowed to go free. . One report of the dinner given to this cruel woman states : “ The Tzigane orchestra played ravishing airs -champagne corks popped, apd Gaibrielle Bompard said that she was finding much in life that was worth living for.”