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It was to one of these latter doors that Dr. Seignebos led his friends. And after having recommended to them the most perfect silence, so as not to rouse Cocoleu's suspicions, he invited them into one of the cells, in which the door leading into the court had been closed.
And now I am ready to become Cocoleu's companion, and I mean to earn the house in Vine Street." Dr. Seignebos signed an order of admission. He recalled the gendarme; and, after having praised his kindness, he asked him to take "that poor devil" to the hospital. When he was alone once more with M. Folgat, he said, "Now, my dear friend, let us consult.
To me it appeared that Cocoleu was at the bottom of the whole affair; that he knew the truth; and that I should be able to save Jacques, if I could prove Cocoleu's imbecility to be assumed, and his speechlessness to be an imposture. And I would have proved it, if they had associated with me any one else but this ass and this jackanapes from Paris."
Seignebos, the possibility that there was an accomplice, and that it was Cocoleu, in all probability, who had been charged with the execution of the crime. But how could that fact be made useful to the defence? He saw no way. Goudar was an able man; and the manner in which he had introduced himself into the hospital and Cocoleu's company indicated a master.
It happens almost daily, that two physicians employed as experts differ in their opinions. The courts would have a great deal to do, if they had to force them to agree. They appoint simply a third expert, whose opinion is decisive. This was necessarily to be done in Cocoleu's case. "And as necessarily," continued Dr.
But the magistrate did not seem to hear his words; and, turning to Cocoleu, he asked him, in a deeply agitated tone of voice "Did you see the gentleman?" "Yes." "Do you know who he is?" "Very very well." "What is his name?" "Oh, yes!" "What is his name? Tell us." Cocoleu's features betrayed the fearful anguish of his mind.
This question was not likely to produce such an effect all of a sudden: hence M. Seneschal said, "I was present at Cocoleu's examination, and I noticed, on the contrary, the amazement of the countess." The doctor raised his shoulders, and said, "Certainly she said, 'Ah! But that is no proof.
Seignebos's request, though unsupported, had been at least partially granted; and the court had summoned a physician from Paris, a great authority on insanity, to determine Cocoleu's mental condition. It was on a Saturday that Dr. Seignebos came triumphantly to announce the good news. It was the following Tuesday that he had to report his discomfiture. In a furious passion he said,
When I asked her, looking straight into her eyes, what she thought of Cocoleu's mental condition, she nearly fainted; and she could hardly make me hear her when she said that she occasionally caught glimpses of intelligence in him.
We are informed by high authority, that such a dramatic scene must not be expected to take place. C. will not appear before the jury." "Certainly, Cocoleu's deposition must have been an interposition of Providence," said people who were not far from believing that it was a genuine miracle. The next day the editor took M. Galpin in hand.
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