Show EYRAUD INTERVIEWED llo Tells How he and Gabrielle Placed Goufies Body In the Trunk after the Hanging Special t THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK June 3 The strangler Eyraud has been interviewed in Havana according to advices received by the Courier ties Etatx Unis He had a long talk with a reporter Referring to his career in Paris Pari Eyraud said I committed a great many small ones with untrustworthy persons but I could not continue to do so My money began t give out One morning in speaking with Gabrielle in a cafe tx d her I intended going to Germany or some other country t work I annoyed me very much to be without money but Gabrielle persuaded me differently and begged me t wait awhile on the assurance that she had something in view which she intended i t undertake sooner or later She made an appointment with me at G oclock in the evening and when I turned t go she gave me five francs I was thereat there-at the rendezvous promptly She handed me a key leading to a secret door to her house telling me t return at 8 oclock When I entered the house at S oclock I heard a great deal of noise and laughter i Bottles of champagne werE being opened Pretty soon Gabrielle came to look for me She gave me some keys and sent me to find fnd some papers belonging to Gouffe I could not find the papers and hearing a noise I left Gouffos house and returned to Ga bridle I looked everywhere I told her without success I could not find the papers pa-pers Then Gabrielle raised her arm in the air and said to me Look I I turned my ayes to where she pointed anti saw Gouffe suspended by the neck with his tongue hanging out of his mouth Who strung him up there I asked I will tell tel you later replied Gabrielle I the meantime help me put him in a trunk i We cut down the body and tried in vain t place him in that We then raised the body in the air and when it was suspended it was much easier to put him in a bag I was still a difficult operation t put the sack in the trunk without letting go of the chord We lowered the body of Gouffe Goufe gradually until we got i in a horizontal I I hori-zontal position above the trunk On the sides his legs and arms rested I pushed him into the bottom by pressing on him until his body touched the bottom of the trunk A leg and his head remained outside out-side Then Gabriele proposed to cut the head oft in order to close the trunk I con tinned in my efforts and in using extra extr force succeeded in pushing the head inside We locked the trunk and Gabrielle told Gabriele me she would take care of it We placed it near sleeep his bed snd I returned t the house t I And you did sleep asked the reporter Soundly was Eyrauds reply I was very much tired by thework I had done I then retunred t Gabrielles house and we took railroad tickets for a station near Lyons We then went to Marseilles where we purloined 20000 francs twenty of which belonged t an Englishman who admired ad-mired Gabrielle About the accomplice to which Gabriele S refers Eyraud said ho would not talk until I tlk unt he reached France |