as
Mme. Fenayrou, whose sentence remained unaltered.

Marin Fenayrou was sent to New Caledonia to serve his punishment.

There he was allowed to open a dispensary, but, proving dishonest, he
lost his license and became a ferryman--a very Charon for terrestrial
passengers. He died in New Caledonia of cancer of the liver.

Gabrielle Fenayrou made an exemplary prisoner, so exemplary that, owing
to her good conduct and a certain ascendancy she exercised over her
fellow-prisoners, she was made forewoman of one of the workshops. Whilst
holding this position she had the honour of receiving, among those
entrusted to her charge, another Gabrielle, murderess, Gabrielle
Bompard, the history of whose crime is next to be related.

Eyraud and Bompard

There are accounts of this case in Bataille "Causes Criminelles et
Mondaines," 1890, and in Volume X. of Fouquier "Causes Celebres."
"L'Affaire Gouffe" by Dr. Lacassagne, Lyons, 1891, and Goron "L'Amour
Criminel" may be consulted.

ON July 27, in the year 1889, the Parisian police were informed of the
disappearance of one Gouffe, a bailiff. He had been last seen by two
friends on the Boulevard Montmartre at about ten minutes past seven on
the evening of the 26th, a Friday. Since then nothing had been heard of
him, either at his office in the Rue Montmartre, or at his private
house in the Rue Rougemont. This was surprising in the case of a man of
regular habits even in his irregularities, robust health, and cheerful
spirits.

Gouffe was a widower, forty-two years of age. He had three daughters
who lived happily with him in the Rue Rougemont. He did a good trade as
bailiff and process-server, and at times had considerable sums of money
in his possession. These he would never leave behind him at his office,
but carry home at the end of the day's work, except on Fridays. Friday
nights Gouffe always spent away from home. As the society he sought
on these nights was of a promiscuous character, he was in the habit
of leaving at his office any large sum of money that had come into his
hands during the day.

About nine o'clock on this particular Friday night, July 26, the
hall-porter at Gouffe's office in the Rue Montmartre heard someone, whom
he had taken at first to be the bailiff himself, enter the hall and go
upstairs to the office, where he remained a few minutes. As he descended
the stairs the porter came out of his lodge and, seeing it was a
stranger, accosted him. But t