So did the other woman in the ease, Mme, Lancel, who sent a ous fashionably-dressed women wh>, by that mysterious influence which the sex can always exercise in Paris, filled the greater part of the body of the court on all three days of the trial. The Minister of Justice had ordered that no one should be admitted except on business, but, as he had just been turned out of office with the last ministry but one, it was not thought necessary to pay any attention to his wishes. Who is a mere Minister that he should inter-fore with influential Parisians' enjoyment of a crime passionnd. The juryman evidently felt the need of showing themselves as Parisian tua the leading actors in the drama, and, after only ten minutes' absence, they returned into court with a verdict of acquittal.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.