QUIMPER, November 1st.
The public prosecutor of Rambouillet had the gendarmerie conduct searches this morning in the garden of Mr. Christofleau, in Saint-Léger-les-Yvelines. These searches yielded no results. It is likely that the anonymous letter addressed to the president of the Quimper assizes was the work of a neighbor of Mr. Christofleau, wishing to take revenge on the latter. The president announced these negative results at the beginning of this twelfth hearing. He had, moreover, received a large number of letters and he did not hide the fact that each letter brought him a whole stock of them; he communicated some of them. Neither the prosecution nor the defense seemed to attach any importance to them. Then, the procession of witnesses resumed.

These were second- and third-hand witnesses who came to the bar. They spoke about Seznec's presence in Le Havre on June 13th. One comes to tell amidst laughter that he had had a conversation with a tobacconist from Le Havre, Mrs. Bastard. This lady who had read the newspapers relating to the Seznec case, had seen him in Le Havre on June 13. She was sure of it. She gave precise information on Seznec.
Mr. Kahn asks with some irony if we are going to parade here a sample of the readers of the various newspapers. (Laughter.)
Mrs. Brébant, from Le Havre, complains that her words have been misinterpreted. She has not seen Mr. Quémeneur in Le Havre. She knows him, however. But she has not seen Mr. Seznec in this city. She is confronted with Mr. Georges Marie who maintains his initial statements. Each of the two witnesses sticks to his position.

The suitcase
Mr. Dumontel, employed at the Le Havre station, found the famous yellow suitcase. He saw a traveler aged twenty to twenty-five lying on the bench. It was not Seznec. A second, Pierre Achille, testified in the same direction. A third railway worker, Mr. Eugène Le Roy, also noticed an individual near the suitcase. This individual first used it as a pillow, then he opened it and finally pushed it away with his foot. I had the impression, said the witness, that this individual was trying to rummage through a suitcase that did not belong to him.

The day of June 20
But here is Mr. Le Bars, a bailiff in Morlaix, who testifies. With him, we return to the day of June 20. That day, he was going to the Traon-Ar-Velin sawmill to serve a document, when he met an engineer, Mr. Testeven, who was returning and who said to him: "Seznec is not in Traon, he is in Brest. »
Mr. Testeven confirms the previous deposition. Then we hear a second bailiff from Morlaix, who is acting against Seznec.

A neighbor of Angèle Lebigou, Mrs. Le Flohic, then comes to declare that, on June 20, in the evening, Angèle Lebigou told her: "My boss has been in bed for two hours and Mr. Seznec is away." At these words, Angèle Lebigou shouts from her seat: It's lies!
"How hurried you are, miss," said the president. "You will come to the bar, don't worry." She does indeed come, followed by Mrs. Seznec, and it is up to the mistress or the servant to decide which of the two, the mistress or the servant, will attack the unfortunate Mrs. Le Flohic with derogatory epithets.
And Angèle, ever more furious, shouts at the president:
"You have nothing but false witnesses with you." This time, the audience finds that Angèle is going a bit too far. She demonstrates against her and against Mrs. Seznec. People shout and whistle. The attorney general is forced to threaten the troublemakers with condemnation on the spot.
"So you're the only one telling the truth," the president continues.
"Yes, sir, and the other witnesses aren't telling you the truth."

The hearing was suspended at 3:15 p.m. When it resumed, we heard Mr. de Jaegher, a broker in Morlaix, who was supposed to make sensational statements and who, in reality, had only conversations of little interest with Seznec, whom he had known for a long time.
Mr. Begnet, a postal clerk in Paris, from whom an unknown person asked, at the post office on Boulevard Malesherbes, for the registered letter containing the check, did not recognize Seznec.
— Since this unknown person did not insist otherwise, I hardly had time to look at him.

The value of the house in Traorez
Is it likely that Mr. Quémeneur could have sold the Troanez property for 100,000 francs? Several witnesses claim that the general councilor had asked them for a higher price and that he had even refused a purchase offer of 120,000 francs in the first days of May.
In search of false witnesses

— The proof to the contrary, retorted Rospars, is that I do not know either of the two people who were to sign the receipts.

When Attorney General Guillot was imprudent enough to use the word "joke" in connection with Mr. Lebert's testimony, Mr. Kahn got angry.
— I will not allow the prosecution, he said, to systematically discredit witnesses favorable to the defense. These are procedures that I do not accept and I protest. (Movement.)

The attorney general reads a letter signed Nicole, a former merchant in Brest, currently avenue du Roule, in Neuilly. Mr. Nicole writes that he explains the errors of Messrs. Le Her, Lajat and Lebert, by the fact that there must be a double of Mr. Quémeneur in Paris. He has the same appearance, the same gait, the same face, the same gold tooth. The whole is of a striking resemblance. He himself was the plaything of this resemblance. Had he not thought he would meet Mr. Quémeneur on his way to take the metro? He came forward, his hand outstretched. Then, facing the character, he recognized his error. On this reading, the hearing is adjourned at 7 p.m. Mr. Quémeneur's body is not in La Queue-les-Yvelines

We know that, from La Queue-les-Yvelines, an anonymous letter reached the president of the assizes yesterday, to warn him that Mr. Quémeneur's body could well be hidden in the garden of a property in this locality belonging to Mr. Christoflou. The president of the assizes immediately ordered that searches be carried out. It results from the investigation of the Rambouillet prosecutor's office that this letter is the work of an anonymous maniac, accustomed to baseless denunciations and eager to take revenge on very honorable people by causing them some trouble. Frequently, the prosecutor of Rambouillet receives letters from the same anonymous person making false accusations. The prosecutor's office has informed the president of the Quimper assizes by telegraph.
In La Queue-les-Yvelines, Mr. Christofleau leads a reclusive life with his wife and a devoted secretary. A member of the Society of Scientists and Inventors, he was awarded a gold medal for introducing the mechanical kneading machine to France. He knew nothing about Quémeneur and Seznec. What he did know was the hatred his neighbors had for him, who considered him a servant of Satan. Inventor of an electromagnetic device designed to strengthen plants and replace chemical fertilizers, Mr. Christofleau had long been the object of harassment by some of the local residents. The anonymous letter to the president of the Quimper assizes was just another manifestation of malice.