It was a wooden trunk, four feet long,
covered with a black .skin, and very heavy. A
commissioner was also found who, on the morning
of the 28th of July, had brought the trunk
back from No. 5 to the Place Yendôme. The cabman
he had ordered to drive to the Place Maubert;
but on the way he changed the order to the
Place aux Veaux, near the Port aux Tuiles.
A cooper's boy had helped him to put the box
on his shoulder, and he walked towards the Rue
Saint Victor. There the clue was lost, for
Girard himself refused to say where he had
taken the trunk; but it was discovered that he
had taken the trunk to a marble-worker named
Noliand, No. 13, Rue de Poissy. Girard, whom
he had only seen once, came to him with the
trunk, telling him if it was not sent for in an
hour not to give it up without an order from
M. Morey, a harness-maker, No. 23, Rue St.
Victor, who came for it.

Here was another clue. Nolland, taken to
the Rue Croulebarbe, pointed to No. 10, at the
corner of the Rue du Chant de l'Alouette. The
scent got hotter. The people there remembered
Nolland's friend, a Corsican, named Fieschi, a
short man, with brown beard and hair, and a
southern pronunciation. He had lived an
infamous life with a woman named Petit, who had
a young daughter with one eye, since living in
the Salpêtrière. He had been the terror of the
place, and used to boast of an infamous
condemnation before a military tribunal. The
judge's eyes sparkled. This was the man.
Nolland, being taken to the prison, at once
recognised Girard as his old neighbour of the Rue
Croulebarbe. Morey's porter identified the
fourth story in No. 11 in the Rue du Long
Pont as the place to which he had taken the
trunk. The police found there a young girl
with one eye, named Nina Lassave, Fieschi's
last mistress. The trunk was found in the
room; she had just written on a scrap of
paper her intention of killing herself, Morey
having deserted her after giving her sixty francs
to go to Lyons and hide herself. The trunk
had contained Fieschi's clothes and account-books,
which she had pawned. The gun-barrels
were identified as rejected government barrels,
purchased from M. Bury, a gunsmith in No.
58, Rue de l'Arbre Sec, and a pupil in the
Temple testified to Girard and Morey buying the
trunk found at Nina Lassave's. A woman, who
had been with Nina to the review, declared that
she returned trembling and distracted with
grief, hearing that the murderer was killed.

On the 5th of August, Nina confessed the
whole. On the 26th, she went to see her hideous
lover, and found him at work at some machine,
as she thought, in the ordinary way of his
trade. Fieschi told her not to come to Paris
during the fètes, as there would be disturbances;
and, if she came, he said he would not
receive her. His manner seemed altered, and
he looked careworn. She, howeer, went the
next day, and the porter told her that Fieschi
was then shut up with his uncle, an old gentleman
(Morey), and they had given orders that they
would see no one. Some minutes after, she
saw Morey and Fieschi sitting together drinking
beer under the tent of a café. Fieschi, then
more gloomy than ever, came up and told her
he could not receive her.

The next day, feeling sure the fire had
come from Fieschi's window at No. 50, she
lost her head. feeling sure that her only friend
was dead; and, packing up her few things at the
Salpêtrière, returned to Paris to see the friends
whom Fieschi had told her to consult on emergencies.
She first called on Pepin, a grocer, No. 1,
Faubourg St. Antoine. Not finding him at home,
she went, all in tears, to Morey, who said to her:

"Well, what is the matter? It was Fieschi,
then, who fired the thing? Is he dead?" He
afterwards, however, owned that he had been
with Fieschi on the Monday, and then took the
girl to a small wine-shop outside the Barrière du
Trône to talk to her more privately.

Nina said: " What a dreadful thing—- so many
victims! They say General Mortier was so good."

"He was canaille, like the rest."

"It was cruel to kill fifty persons to get at
one. I, who am only a woman, if I had wished
to kill Louis Philippe, should have taken two
pistols, and, after having fired with one, I
should have shot myself with the other."

"Hush! We shan't lose by waiting; and
he'll give up his body-guard. Fieschi is an
imbecile; he would load three of the guns
himself, and it is just those that burst. I urged
him to load his pistols. He ought to have
blown out his brains. He is only a braggart.
He went and told in several places that something
was going to happen on the day of the
review; that was wrong."

"But how did Fieschi, who was no engineer,
construct a machine like that?"

"It was I who traced the plan. I have only
just torn it up, or I would show it you. The
guns were placed in such a way that they could
not miss; but Fieschi fired too late."

On his way to dinner outside the barrier,
Morey had stopped at a paper manufacturer's
to return a passport to a man named Bescher
which Fieschi had borrowed. Coming back,
Morey stopped at, the corner of a wall to throw
away a bag of bullets he had in his pocket.

Pepin, the grocer, was found in his shirt only,
hidden in a concealed cupboard at Magny. He
had with him two blouses for disguise, nine
hundred and forty francs, and a volume of the works
of St. Just. Pepinhad already been under
accusation for having, in 1832, permitted the
insurgents to fire from his windows in the
faubourg at the troops. The police also
arrested Victor Boireau, a tinman and a member
of the dangerous society of the Rights
of Man. It was he who, on one of Pepin's
horses, had trotted and galloped past No. 5,
in order that Fieschi and Morey might regulate
the level of the gun-barrels. Bescher, a
bookbinder, who had lent his passport to Fieschi,
was also arrested.

The trial took idace before the Court of Peers
under the presidency of M. Pasquier, on the
30th of January. So great was the interest
excited in Paris that applications were made to