GRILLING A SERVANT GIRL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2129, 26 October 1885, Page 2

GRILLING A SERVANT GIRL.

The new trial of Pel has been in many respect very interesting. What more told against him at the first trial was tho evidence of several neighbors: that for three days' they smelt, emanating from his house; something like tlie odor of/bad meat being griddled. Now the, medical experts, Drs D'Hote and Brouardel,: who burned a body in a stove expressly manufactured as a fac-simile of the ono in which Pel is supposed to have cremated Elise Boehmer, testify that there was no bad smell. The able young advocate, M. Laguerre, made quite a sensation. by remarking that Pel's stove looked .almost new, whereas that experimentally-used by the experts was manifestly deteriorated. The jury left their box and closely examined the two stoves. Tho AdvocateGeneral made no observation on this important point. Several witipjftfr in whose service Elise Boehmer liad .been before she went to Pel, deposed that she had always wretched health, and, complained of great sufferings This ; was seized upon by M. Laguerre as negativing the theory that her illness while with Pel resulted from poisoning. To, strengthen his position that her disappearance could not be accepted as evidence that Pel murdered her, he showed that., the servant Pel had after her, and whom he certainly did' not murder, because''sho was Been at Bordeaux with a lover after she left his service, could. iiot ! now be found, although the police ' had made diligent enquiries about her. The Advocate-General, M. Quesnay du Beauvepaire, commencing.his speech for the prosecution, aprostrophised the prisoner in this fashion: " Pel,,how long .will you persist in your lying; denials?'ln, my opinion you are completely crushed by the evidence against you." SL Laguerre, Pel's counsel, here interrupted vehemently "lo.u have no right to make such. observations., • Stato what you think is proved to make out your case; but my client hat all along persisted in his denials.",, For a little while there , was something like a tumult in court, The trial was concluded, and the accused was sentenced to , penal servitude for life.