rovincial authorities did not allow themselves to be infected by the hysterical mood of the citizenry. For the first time since the murderer of maidens had appeared on the scene well-planned and effective cooperative efforts were instituted among the prefectures of Grasse Draguignan and Toulon among magistrates police commissaries parliament and the navy.This cooperation among the powerful arose partly from fear of a general civil uprising partly from the fact that only since Laure Richis s murder did they have clues that made systematic pursuit of the murderer possible for the first time. The murderer had been seen. Obviously they were dealing with the ominous journeyman tanner who had spent the night of the murder in the inn stables and disappeared the next morning without a trace. According to the joint testimony of the innkeeper the groom and Richis he was a nondescript shortish fellow with a brownish coat and a coarse linen knapsack. Although in other respects the recollections of the three witnesses remained unusually vague-they had been unable to describe the man s face hair color or manner of speech-the innkeeper did add that if he was not mistaken he had noticed something awkward or limping about the stranger s posture and gait as if he had a wounded leg or a crippled foot.Armed with these clues two mounted troops had taken up pursuit of the murderer by noon of the same day following the Mar6chaussee in the direction of Marseille-one along the coast the other taking the inland road. The environs of La Napoule were combed by volunteers. Two commissioners from the provincial court at Grasse traveled to Nice to make inquiries about journeyman tanners,vans chukka. All ships departing from the ports of Frejus Cannes and Antibes were checked,Vans Checkerboard Slip On Black Pewter; the roads leading across the border into Savoy were blocked and travelers required to identify themselves,Vans Washed Checker Slip On Black White. For those who could read an arrest warrant and description of the culprit appeared on all the town gates of Grasse Vence and Gourdon and on village church doors. Town criers made three announcements daily. The report of a suspected club-foot of course merely confirmed the view that the culprit was none other than the devil himself and tended more to arouse panic among the populace than to bring in useful information.But only after the presiding judge of the court in Grasse had on Richis s behalf offered a reward of no less than two hundred livres for information leading to the apprehension of the murderer did denunciations bring about the arrest of several journeyman tanners in Grasse Opio and Gourdon-one of whom indeed had the rotten luck of limping. They were already considering subjecting the man to torture despite a solid alibi supported by several witnesses when ten days after the murder a man from the city watch appeared at the magistrate s office and gave the following deposition: At noon on the day in question he Gabriel Tagliasco captain of the guard while engaged in his customary duties at the Porte du Cours had been approached by an individual who as he now realized fit tRelated articles:

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