(Sensation.) About three years ago a crime had been committed in
Paris, which caused a great sensation at the time. The case being a
peculiar one, was reported in a medical work, by Messieurs Prevol
and Lebrun, which he had obtained from France some two years back.
The facts of the case were shortly these: An actress called Adele
Blondet died from the effects of poison, administered to her by
Octave Braulard, who was her lover; the deceased had also another
lover, called Kestrike, who was supposed to be implicated in the
crime, but he had escaped; the woman in this case had been poisoned
by an extract of hemlock, the same poison used as in the case of
Selina Sprotts, and it was the similarity of the symptoms that made
him suspicious of the sudden death. Braulard was sent out to New
Caledonia for the murder. While in Paris he had been a medical
student with two other gentlemen, one of whom was Monsieur Prevol,
who had reported the case, and the other was at present in Court,
and was called M. Gaston Vandeloup. (Sensation in Court, everyone's
eye being fixed on Vandeloup, who was calm and unmoved.) M.
Vandeloup had manufactured the poison used in this case, but with
regard to how it was administered to the deceased, he would leave
that evidence to M. Vandeloup himself.
When Gollipeck left the witness-box there was a dead silence, as
everyone was too much excited at his strange story to make any
comment thereon.
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