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15. _The Gouffé Case._—Murdered by Eyraud and Bompard in 1889. _Archiv

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.