Chapter 94 Public Trial (Additional Chapter for the Helmsman, It’s Not Good to Do This)

In court, the young lawyer defending the victim smiled as he listened to the judge's distortion of the truth, but he remained silent.

Soon, accompanied by the crying of the parents of the murdered siblings, Vesinier raised the gavel and pronounced: "This court pronounces that Runachet is not guilty of forced murder and is acquitted."

Just as the gavel in his hand was about to fall, the young lawyer suddenly stood up and shouted: "This is an illegal verdict! You are trampling on the law!"

Vezinier shook his head. He had seen many young people who were shouting like this. He smiled contemptuously and waved to the bailiff: "Get this guy out! By the way, what is his name? He will be charged with insulting the court later."

The lawyer did not flinch and said: "My name is Danton! Georges Jacques Danton, you can sue me!"

He raised a few more pieces of paper above his head: "But Mr. Judge, you have to explain what these letters are!"

"Letters? What letters?" Vesinier looked at the pages and felt that they seemed familiar. Suddenly his face changed. It seemed that they were letters he wrote to Varleye! How did they fall into the hands of this lawyer? !

The letter was naturally handed over to the lawyer by the police.

Not long ago, Joseph accidentally heard Fouché mention that the lawyer of the victim of the "Lunache case" was named Danton, so he immediately asked someone to check the registered lawyers of the High Court and learned that there was only one named "Jacques Danton".

In other words, this young lawyer was the later leader of the Jacobins.

Historically, Danton hated evil and had a very high level of oratory, and could easily incite thousands of people to riot.

So Joseph immediately decided to hand over the finishing work against Vesinier to him. When encountering such a serious case, Danton would definitely make a big fuss.

At the trial scene, Danton jumped onto the chair in the audience and read out loud the part of Vesinier's letter that could be used as evidence: "My dear old friend, I saw your manservant. But I have to confirm, do you really want me to intervene in the case of Runache?

"As for the money, it will be used to make arrangements. You know, they have to give them 10,000 livres just for the evidence room, after all, destroying evidence is a very serious crime...

"I don't know how they will deal with that witness, but I swear to you, as long as that damn carpenter doesn't speak, I can find your nephew not guilty..."

"Poor Runache must have had enough of the moldy and cold prison. Oh, he was supposed to stay there until he died, or even go to the gallows. But don't worry, I will let him out after the next court session..."

"Bailiff! Stop him!" Vesinier pointed at Danton and yelled like crazy, "He is lying! "

Before the bailiffs in the court could react, Vesinier had already stepped on the chair impatiently, jumped out from behind the trial table, and rushed towards Danton with red eyes.

The latter nimbly ran and dodged between the tables and chairs in the court, while continuing to read the letter.

Until the key points were finished, he had already run to the door of the court, pushed away the bailiffs guarding there, and rushed out.

Outside the High Court, thousands of citizens had already gathered, many more than usual to protest, all of whom were just summoned by Marat, Desmoulins and others to cooperate with the trial.

Danton rushed to the iron fence of the court and shouted: "The shameless and despicable guy just now humiliated the law in front of everyone! He actually acquitted the murderer!"

The crowd immediately erupted with angry roars: "Hang the murderer!"

"Hang the corrupt judge together!"

"Hang! Must be sentenced to hanging! "

Dandong motioned for everyone to be quiet and raised the letter in his hand: "I have evidence of the judge's corruption, and I will make sure he gets the punishment he deserves!"

Several bailiffs wanted to stop Dandong, but under the intimidation of thousands of people, they were trembling with fear and dared not step forward.

In fact, more than 30 police officers were on standby more than ten steps away. If the bailiffs dared to take action, they would immediately rush in to rescue Dandong.

Dandong continued to shout: "In order to prevent those people from destroying the evidence, I suggest that we hold a public trial here!"

The crowd suddenly shouted again:

"Public trial!"

"Right here, let us watch the trial!"

"The judge who let the murderer go, get out! "

In this way, the angry people roared for a whole day, and more and more people gathered.

Until dusk, Chief Minister Brian appeared and publicly promised that the royal court would be responsible for the public trial of Vesinier's bribery case in the square in front of the High Court. People gradually dispersed.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Vesinier asked his men to repeatedly confirm that there were no protesters outside the court. Then he put on a coachman's clothes and sneaked out from the back door.

However, what he didn't know was that the people from the police intelligence department had been watching him in the dark.

As soon as Vesinier's carriage passed two streets, he heard someone shouting: "The judge who colluded with the murderer is here!"

"Come on, everyone, Vesinier is here! "

Torches were lit up quickly around them, and Marat led hundreds of people to rush up, dragged Vezinier out of the car, and beat him up without any explanation.

In the corner, dozens of policemen felt that it was almost time, and appeared with whistles to separate the crowd - after all, they couldn't really beat the criminal to death, otherwise there would be no one to try.

Vezinier on the ground had been beaten to the point of losing his human form, lying in a pool of blood and twitching.

Two days later, a judge was sent by the Royal Court to publicly try the Vezinier case in front of the High Court.

The Royal Court of Plenipotence was under the control of the king. It was still very authoritative in the era before Louis XIV. Later, the power was gradually transferred to the High Court and now it has become a ceremonial institution.

Several judges never dreamed that they would have a real day to try a case.

However, under the gaze of thousands of angry citizens, no one dared to question whether they were qualified to try the case.

Vesinier, whose leg was broken, lay wrapped in bandages and groaned in pain from time to time.

Danton handed the letters to the judge and claimed that Vesinier still had them at home.

The judge immediately ordered a search of Vesinier's home and soon found letters from "Varleyer" in his study.

The correspondence between the two sides confirmed each other, and further confirmed the fact that Vesinier accepted bribes to help Runache escape guilt.

Vesinier, lying on the wooden board, couldn't figure out why these letters appeared in his home when he had clearly burned them.

In fact, "Varéyère" wrote two copies of the letter, one for Vezinière to burn, and the other was quietly placed in his study by her maid.

Later, the Monterey family was also summoned to testify. Under the evidence and the angry eyes of countless people, the couple quickly admitted the fact of bribing the judge.

The Royal Court of Plenipotence also publicly sentenced Vezinière to fifty years in prison for bribery, sheltering, and destroying evidence. And because of Vezinière's bad character, the court announced that all the cases it had previously tried would be sent back for retrial.

Thousands of citizens watching the scene suddenly burst into thunderous cheers. Only Danton, Marat and others were not in high spirits. They wanted only one verdict, that is, hanging.

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