MURDERER’S REMORSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 943, 19 January 1911, Page 4

MURDERER’S REMORSE.

On December ist (the Pans corndeut of the London Dauy F ess wrote) a close watch was ! kept night and day on CapU..n Meyniti, who was arrested recently for the murder of the Baroness d’ Ambricourt. All night he walked up and down his cell talking incoherently to himself. He has eaten practically nothing since his arrest, and since his examination by M. Hamard, of the Surete Generale, has spoken no word except to accuse himself of cowardice because he did not take his life. His examination was exceedingly dramatic. “I am a miserable coward,” he said to M. Hamard, and he laid two bottles of poison on the table before him. ‘‘For the last fortnight,” he continued, ‘‘l have put these bottles to my lips a dozen times, and have not dared to drink their contents. There is enough poison in them to kill a dozen men.” He then described his Odyssey of the last fortnight—a pitiable record which should do much to discourage crime in France for some time. ‘‘Alter the murder,” said Meynier, ‘‘l walked straight out of the house without any very clear idea of what I was doing or where I was going. The whole fortnight has been one long nightmare. I walked and walked without any change of clothes or boots till hunger and fatigue forced me to rest. I have not been in Paris much, but in the suburbs, and when my money gave out I was forced to all sorts of stratagems to get food and drink.”