anthropologie criminelle, Paris, 1890, v., pp. 642-716; vi., 1891, pp.
17_ and _179_. Reports by Bernard, Lacassagne, and others. Gouffé was
decoyed into a room and strangled; afterward his body was tied up,
placed in a trunk, and taken some distance away. The murderers fled
to America; but eventually Bompard returned to France and Eyraud was
captured; both confessed. When found, the body was well advanced in
putrefaction; after a very careful examination was identified. He was
strangled by the pressure of fingers; the head was afterward wrapped
in a cloth which was held in place by five turns of a cord around the
neck; traces of the furrows made by these cords were found. Heart
empty; no blood in muscles of neck; hyoid bone intact but superior
thyroid cornua fractured at base.