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II THE TRIAL OF DR. CASTAING
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Castaing expected, as a result of the doctors' report, immediate1 release. In this he was disappointed; he was placed under stricter arrest and taken to Paris, where a preliminary investigation2 commenced, lasting3 five months. During the early part of his imprisonment4 Castaing feigned5 insanity6, going to disgusting lengths in the hope of convincing those about him of the reality of his madness. But after three days of futile7 effort he gave up the attempt, and turned his attention to more practical means of defence. In the prison at Versailles, whither he had been removed from Paris, he got on friendly terms with a prisoner, one Goupil, who was awaiting trial for some unimportant offence. To Goupil Castaing described the cruelty of his position and the causes that had led to his wrongful arrest. He admitted his unfortunate possession of the poison, and said that the 100,000 francs which he had invested he had inherited from an uncle. Through Goupil he succeeded in communicating with his mother in the hope that she would use her influence to stifle8 some of the more serious evidence against him. Through other prisoners he tried to get at the chemists from whom he had bought acetate of morphia, and persuade them to say that the preparation of morphia which he had purchased was harmless.
The trial of Castaing commenced before the Paris Assize Court on November 10, 1823. He was charged with the murder of Hippolyte Ballet, the destruction of a document containing the final dispositions10 of Hippolyte's property, and with the murder of Auguste Ballet. The three charges were to be tried simultaneously
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