A PARISIAN HEROINE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PARISIAN HEROINE.

Paris, March 3. — Gabriolle Bompard, tho accomplice of Eyraul in the murdor of Gouffo, is at present tho heroine of Paris. She is enjoying the best of times in prison and is absolutely callous to remorse. On Saturday last sho was brought before the judges and examined on what the French law calls "Le reconstruction dv crime." Gabrielle sat on a sofa, smiling and laughing, and showed how the murder was done. She loves to relate to an admiring circle of turkeys how Gouffo's last words were, "Don't be afraid of me, Mignon," at the moment the j noose was falling around his neck, guided by the assassin behind the curtain. When a police official put his head into the noose and pulled the cord she shrieked with laughter and exclaimed, " Yes, that's how we did it." "La Belle Gabrielle," as the, gamins call her, is at present the ! most talked about person in Paris. ' The newspapors describe her break-

fasts in prison with fuller details than they give to those of the Duke of Orleans. Sho loves chocolate cakes and caramels, of which her admirers send her large supplies, together with heaps of flowers. Being only an accused person, the French law insists that she shall be treated with all attention to comfort, so she has good reasons to remark, " I don't mind being in gaol, they keep such a nice table d'Me."