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the impression produced by the speeches of the advocate.html">advocate-general and of
of the trial, the Thursday, had no doubt as to the result. A verdict of
supporting Vaucheray's tactics, had tended to link the two prisoners
concerned two of Lupin's accomplices. From the opening of the inquiry
proceedings had been directed against Lupin; and this in spite of the
order not to scatter its efforts over too wide an area, had decided not
leader.html">leader who must be punished in the person of his friends, the famous and
destroyed for good and all. With Gilbert and Vaucheray executed, Lupin's
the four days. The advocate-general, the presiding judge.html">judge, the jury.html">jury, the
Lupin was mentioned and cursed at, scoffed at, insulted and held
Vaucheray figured only as supernumeraries, while the real criminal
leader of a gang of thieves, the forger, the incendiary, the hardened
blood of his victim, Lupin lurking in the shade, like a coward, after
which they are making my poor old Gilbert pay."
And the terrible tragedy went on.
At seven o'clock in the evening, after a long deliberation, the jury
put from the bench. The answer was "Yes" to every count of the
white-faced, they received their sentence of death.
And, amid the great, solemn silence, in which the anxiety of the
as myself, I am easy... We are both on the same footing... The governor
inarticulate sentences. But, when the judge repeated his question, he
that's true... I have done a lot of harm... But, all the same, not this.
I don't want to die... it would be too horrible... "
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