The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

THE DANI3R WAR.

Colonel FRENCH raked whether the report war well
boded tbat the Aaron bad bees ordered to the Baltic

Sia G. GRZY—I bats sot bawd that any Noah report fa
iht toonladon ; bat it is not it that the Aurora has been
mime to the Baltic.

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Ni. DISRAELI I am eawilliire to 'inhumes her
aiireWs geeerameat at the mem{ lieee—(laugbter)—bot
Sim appear to me that la the Wittig critical state d
Maim the Home of Commas should be kept asgaiLiated
ia wand terms with abs preorma of tbe coolcnoce, sad 1
basellish. set withstradlag thelodismee light La whisk hem

gentlemen opposite appear to view this important question,
I may be permitted to ask whether it is bus that the con-
ference has epic adjourned: and, if so, whether her
Majesty's governmeet will inform the bones what is the
reason of that adjournment, and on what day the confirm*
may be expected to rwamemble t (Hear. hear.)
Sir G. GREY— The comfereom met yesterday, and has
bees adjourned till Monday next (Loud cries of "Speak op.")
It is the opinion of the members of the somferenoe that it
is essential to the Emma of the conference itself that their
proceedings should be strictly private. It is therefore quite
oat of my power to inform the right km. gentleman why
yesterday it was adjourned till Mooday.

THE HIGHWAY ACT
Is ammo to • resale° from Mr. Lanoma.,
Sir G. GREY said that the delay is Waging forward this
measure bad arisen in part from the difficulty which wee
felt of dealing with a part of the subject, se to which
great interest was felt by the quarter emulous of the eounty
which the hon. gentleman represented. The course he pro-
posed was, when the bill was istrodamid, if the home should
agree to the second reading, to more that it be referred to
a select committee.

RUiRK A TA

THE EXPREI3B,,,FRIDAY. EVENING, MAY 6, 1864.

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PAWS, WZDZILIDAY MOM
The trial, which has long been looked forward to
in the Faubourg Bt. Germain with intense interest,
of a physician, blaring the title of Count, for poi-
soning a lady, whose life he had insured for an
enormous amount, is fixed for Monday next.
I enclose a translation of the indictment, which
is in itself a sensation noveL M. Lachaud is re-
tined for the prisoner.
At the beginning of November last there lived in a small
lodging on the second floor in the Rue Bonaparte, a woman
of the age of 42, who ever since 11358 bad been the widow
of a ;minim named Palm. She was left without fortune
and with three children, the eldest of whom wee only eight
veers old. She courageously struggled against the &Bl-
eolties of the situation in which she found herself, and
worked inoesouttly to provide for herself and her
With all this her health was ksbitually good, and down to
the date of November 16 she was in no way iIL But at
half-past six in the evening of November 17 this woman, 90
lull of life but the day before, died from the effects of vomit
Mg with which she had been seized the night before, and
the vicunas and fatal issue of which appeared altogether
inexplicable.

This melancholy event produced in the minds of thole
who were in the habit of seeing the widow Pauw • feeling
of painful utonishniest, end taken is COODelriall with various
things which she had told them it gave rise to grave sue.
picions. These suspicions reached the ear of Madame
()rhea, • sister of the deceased, sad on November 21, her
hub•nd lodged • oomplaiat at the parquet. He confined
himself in the first instance to the allegation that the death
of widow Pauw might possibly hare resulted from poison
administered to her by a person intended in an insurance
on her life. But beton long he spoke more precisely, and
from his statements, added to other confirmatory informs.
tine, it resulted that the widow Pauw had been poisoned,
sod that La roamers" was the author of the
I crime. The fine thine to he dose is pr••••••
of this aocusatioa was to anertain the cause
of death. While there was the most eerier
moon to think that Madame Pauw had died from poises,
Dr. Gandind, who had frequently ridded her, and who
in particular had seen her on November 17, signed • oertill.
cote that her death was caused by a fall two or three months
before the event. A poet =erten& examination was there.
ten iodisperable. Dr. Tardier examined the corpse ea
November 30, and reported that he could find no symptoms
of say disease, or of cry lesion either old oe recent which
could amount for the death. But he said that the absorb
of any marked lesion, together with certain indications, and
particularly the state of the digestive seat earned to him
to prove that death "had been occasioned by some
poisonous enhatanas The analysis of the viscera
would be the only means of arriving at • posi-
tive conchrou on the subject." After these grave
rural" of the autopsy, Dr. Goodinot, far from persisting
in his fies► opinion, admitted that be had ad personally ob-
served any contusion or "rhymer on the person of Madame
New, and that he had gives his certificate solely from what
she ►ad said to him. Several other witnesses were examined ;
a lady, named de Bidder, an intimate friend of the de-
emed, made revelations of the highest importance, which
"reconfirmed by • letter written by the decreed, and which
gave new force to the suspicion against La Pornmerais. A
domiciliary visit made at the house of the seared on De•
roar 4, led to the discovery of varietal papers, and an ex-
traordinary quantity of poisons of all sorts. In partioular,
• bottle was touted which had centered two grammes of
digitalis, but in which there remained only 1.5
centigrammes. The accused was at the same time called
upon to explain himself on the subject of the grave impute-
aces against hint, sod his explanations were so unserdso-
tory that his arrest was ordered.
Dee. Tardieu sad Rouser, the experts appointerby the
prosecution, made • chemical analysis of the organs of the
widow Pane., and also of the matter vomited by her,
which was found upon the floor near the bed, and alter
mealy experiments they made s report which concludes in
Hier words :—" Madame Pauw died from poison." Their
report is on the w►ject free from all reserve. They affirm
' in the most positive manner that the death of Madame
New did not result from any affection of the heart or
stomach, nor from any accident or diseue, or In fact from
any natural care whatever. At the tame time they show the
existence both in the matter vomited and in the organs
themselves of • very powerful taxied principle, which
when tried upon living animals produced upon them effects
similar to those experienced by Madame Pew, rid caused
them to die in like manner.

AA to the substance by means of which the poisoning was
aosomplished, the experts think that it must have bees
digitalis, the effects of which are @Millar to those observed
on Madame Pauly, and subsequently upon the animals on
which the experiments were tried. The nature of this
poison, which leaves no tram, does not permit them to
speak on this point more positively.
But notwithstanding this reserve, the fact that the do-
omed had died from pole= was now certain, and the nest
teak of the instruction Was to ascertain how and by whom
the poison wee administered. The very nature of theponou
in question proves sufficiently that the death could sot
have resulted from an accident; neither can it be attri-
buted to suicide, ► thing which many witnesses show was
ROM contemplated by Madame Pauly ; it was evident
that the poison must have been administered by a criminal
hand.

received from him some of money Equal to the amoupte
=galloped in the respective poligies ; and separate dude,
drawn up by an agent named Louis, repeated the ems
May. Doubting afterwards whether he was sufficiently
secure against all possible =aims on the part of Madame
Panw's part of kin, he consulted an avoid, named Levan;
without telling him that the policies were already sliced,
or that they amounted to 550,000 franca, and told him that
be bad het considerable sum of money to Madame Pauw
amounting altogether to 100,000 francs, and that she had
promised to insure her life for that amount in the Nationale,
the premium of chic= be would pay, on condition that he
was to receive the amount of the policy on the death of his
debtor. He begged M. Lava= to prepare a deed for carry-
ing this sostnict into effect.
M. Lamm having no reason to doubt La Pocamessii
statement, drew up the deed as desired. It is plain that La
Poctimeme only object in going to M. Lemma was to get
the form of a deed to effect hie object. Accordingly, on
August 31 be got the witliw Pauw to sign another deed,
exactly in the MIN form, but analog the mount at
650,0001., instead of 100,0001., and showing, u the fart was
that the insurances had already been effected, and that the
eight policies were in his hands.
But met when be was in pommel= of all times deeds, in
which he waelmads to appear as • creditor of Madame Pauw,
he did not yet think himself sufficiently secure against her
relations, and he got her to sign a will in which she re.
pealed that the eight policies were his property, and more-
over bequeathed to him all that she could by law leave,
and she even went so far as to say that she gave him the in-
terest of the part reserved for her children, without his
being called upon to give security. She was nevertheless •
fond mother, and this fact prom how completely Pomm•-
nis bad obtained en influence over her, and bow blindly she
did whatever be required.

The time now came for the accused so to act that all the
pains he had taken might not be futile and unproductive,
The death of Madams Panty was the only event which *odd
relieve him from the payment of annual premiums quite
beyond his means, and at the same time pat him in poems-
ot sbs 530,U00t., bleb be woo moot riser to touch.
The next premium was due is the month of January. It
was very material to him to avoid making the payment,
sad moordingly he hastened the execution et bin guilty
design.
lie had long prepaid himself with the neomeary poison.
As far back as the month of June, when he renewed his
relations with Madame Pauw, he bought a gramme of
digitalis, and a week later he bought two grammes. He
perfectly well knew that this poison leaves no Mace be-
hind ; but it was important for him to be able to explain in
a more or INN plausible manner the vomiting which
digitalis never fails to cause. With this object he re-
minded Madame Raw, as woe as he had got the will from
her, that in order to get her policies bought up by the
insurance offices upon advantageous terms it was usoramary
that she should simulate an illness.

' She at once followed his counsels, and ow day in Septem
bet, • window frame having fallen down with • great noise
upon her staircase, she took the opportunity of saying that
she had bad • violent fall ; sad after that time she com-
plained frequently of • pais in the stomach. She went
further. With the view of preparing for the pretended ill-
Dees which she was to counterfeit, she west to consult
several physicians, who, without proceeding to any suffi-
eisetly close examination to verify her statements, gave her
prescriptions which she took care sever tai follow, but handed
over at once to la Puma/arse. The mouth of November
cams without Madame Peaw, although she continually
talked of her Hiner, and her pain in the stomach, ever
cawing to busy herself with her ordieary occupations. La
Posninerais then thought that the preliminary stages bad
gone on long enough, and that the time had come for
striking his grand blow.
At his suggestion Madame Pauw procured from the office
of the etril the antificate of her birth, which would
be requisite to be produced to receive the amount of the
policies after her death, and which could not have bias
wasted for any other purpose. When he bad got togeth r
all the papers be required, he told Madame Panw to keep
her bed, end give out that she was wore than
ever. At the same time, as she complained during 1
this voluntary sequestration that she lost the pries of some
lessons she was giving to • person residing in the Greed
Hotel, La Pommerais said he would make up the amount
to her, and pay her the price of the lesson every day.
Madame Pau, did not lea►e her room after November 12,
and always wore a nightcap as if she were ill, in order the
better to deceive the doctors who it was expected the
companies would seed to visit her. La POOllllOllll said he
would make her take something to cause agitation.
Meanwhile, and before the realisation et this perfidious
promise, so wall calculated to reader Madame Peuw dis-
posed to take unhesitatingly whatever he might choose to
give her, and to prevent her from being frightened by say
disagreealis symptoms.which might follow, her health was
in reality excellent, and she was, moreover, extremely
cheerful.

The motive was thee to be sought foe. Assuredly this
meld neither have been vengeance nor hatred. Madame
Pauw had no enemies, neither had she any next of kin
interested in her death ; the fruits of her labour constituted
her only fortune, the sole resource of her three children.
Of all her ammiatenee one individual alone could
be a gainer by her death, and this individual
was the accused, La Ponaineraia. He had known
Madam* Pauw for several years ; he attended
bee husband in 1868, and after his death he very soon
beanie the lover of the widow. Their relations on the foot-
ing of lover sod mistress continued till the middle of 1861,
but in the moath of August in that year M. la Pommenus
married Mcrae. Dnbisy, and for more than two years after-
wards he never saw Mme. Plum. He even refused to go to
me her °bikini' when they were ill.
One day however, in the month of June last, Madame
Pauw, to her great surprise, found him once more in her
lodgiap, sad by way of axplaaation of his sudden return, he
mid he bad bit opoo • plan for providing for her children in
the future. He told her that she mutt not tell any one of
the memo which he proposed, and, without entering into
details, merely said that • lds insurance was the thing
projected.

La Pommeraia' injunctions to seamy did not prevent
her froru telling several of her friends and neigh-
boars what the wee hoping for. "If the thing
succeeds," she said, " my fortune and that of my children is
made.' She repeated frovisetly that on the policies tieing
bought up the was to have 3,0001. a year. All she bad to
do was to make the doceoes believe that she was really ill,
and to keep her bed for about a fortnight.
On Friday, November 13, she mote to her friend Madame
de Fodder to beg her to come the next day to spend the
Groping. The toes of her letter indicated contentment and
hope. "The doctors," she said, ironically, "think I am
very ill. I have great hopes, according to what Its said to
me yesterday, that if the thing noosed. I shall get 3,0001.
a year. I will sell you all about it to•morrow."
But the visits of the amused evidently referred to in the
above letter became more and more frequent. He seat
word to Madame Nue that he should come to peas Saturday
evening with her, and as he wanted particularly to be with
her alone, the rendezvous with Madame de Bidder was
countermanded.

No sensible change, however, yet appeared in the health
of the pretended sick pompom On the Monday at 5 o'clock
she dined in oompany with the two Mimes Biord and their
mother. She afterwards begged a neighbour, Madame
Delattre, to get a bottle of essence for her, and she made a
toilette with a care and attention which showed bee to be
in very good bashis. She expected a visit from Ls Polo-
mersis. He osme at about 8 o'clock. He stayed }with her
along while, and nobody else saw her till the morning of the
next day. At lialfiest 6 the widow Pigerre, wbo came as
usual to bring the breed. wan surprised to And the key out.
side the door, whence it was Madame Panw's Debit to take
it inside. This woman went into the bedroom and found
'lndira* Panw in a terrible state. Her face betrayed great
sneering ; her bed and all the flooring near it were stained
by vomiting.

Having thus weetablished relations with Madame Now,
he proposed that she should insure her life for
• sum of 550,000 f., that be would pay the mendurue,
and that aka should assign the policies to him. Bat
It being obvious that in this way neither Madame
Pauw nor her children would get any benefit, La Pornmersa
added that he could manage to get for her an almost
immediate income by this arrangement. He suggested
that • little while after t►e policy was 'Heated she should
pretend to be seriously ill, and make the iasurame Milne be-
lieve that she was on the point of death ; then he
would go to the company and propose to them to
cancel the policy on the tense of paying her • life
annuity of 6,u00f., to run from January 1, 1864. He would
share this annuity with her, and in the way she would be
better off than she had ever been before in her life. Ma•
dame Palm had sot the courage to reject this Mange pro-
posal. She Mut her eyes to the dishonesty of the meat-
latest. She was Wearable of suspecting the real designs of
La Pesusierais, dominated so she was by her pandon for him
—spaniel now revived, and stronger than ever. She blindly
°caseated to let him arrange the matter se Le desired. But
while La Posareerais managed the whole maid* be took
care not to come into direct contact with the insurance
consmairs. He Introduced Madame Paaw to a broker
named Desmidt, through whom he had only recently
become initiated in all the various ounbinalione at
life iasm•sme. Demi& was instructed to tail the
companies that • rich Freachmen, the Count de la Pass
mane, wishing to provide for the children he had bed by
Madame Pauw, desired to insure her life, which was an
smallest owe, for t►eir besegt. Oa this repreeentalies six
Freed' asepases—La Oeofnla, L Natiosals, La Pelee-
L'Unies, La Phials, L'lmparide—and twe
Frisch eceepeafer-1/labernatiatal sad the Omeheas—
agreed to issue policies es Madame Paaw's life for the total
sum of 5.50,000 f. The eight policies wine Aped Weems
the 6th and 21st of July, and the •maul pmedases speed
be be paid animated I. 18,840 fresco. Yahoo Panw was
slimly amble to pay the first premiums. Mile Well
paid, through Desmidt, by La Ponimarats ; sad theme.
forth his oily thought was hoer to get the Meat of the
imams= width he had effected. He begs. by all
the pities Imesterred to himself by Made®. Paaw's
dessiasd, la e she was ads to admit OM sin bail

Madame Pilger!, at one celled up Felicite ao4 Adelaide
Palm, who slept la the eutresol. They cams up directly,
but their mother told them that she bed only aa Wire.
tioa, sod wished to be left alone. Therefore they wait to
their own room. At 8 o'clock, La Ponausreis mom again,
and, as in the orating, Remained fora long while aloes with
Madame Perm.

It ma evident that she was in a dangerous state. Ed
be celled for no assiatann ; he spoke to no one about her,
and left her suffering as she was. She felt no 120611 ADDA,
about herself. She knew that to get the 3,000(. a year. it was
necessary that she should appear to be seriously ill ! Br
sidle Ls Pemmican had remeured be. She rid to her
daughter Felieit4, "Ha tells me that I have the cholera,
sad that I shall be El for 24 hours." Now, the word
cholera did ad fright's be: at all, because IA PODIXOO7IIII
told her th►t he bed had it himself and had mired himself in 24
boars by means of a madames% which he would bring her.
So far, therefore, from asking her daughters to nurse her,
she ordered them to go to school as mud. But after they
were 'OOO she got worse and won*, and received no attic.
tics, except from her neighbour, Madame Delattre, who
came to her every now and then. At 1 o'clock, Dr. Oct.
dint, whom she bad often oessulied, came to see her. He,
se we have already emu, had accepted without mistrust her
own moodit, end really believed that she had Ulna do's-
stairs, and had hems self ering in cousequems. Whoa be
learned from Madams Dentin that she had not followed
him prearriptioas, he beasnis very angry, and went away
withed szaadabg ►r, and without her attempting to keep
him.

Shortly after t►is, sad at about 2 o'clock, La Pommerais
swine main, cad was spin ahem with Inc He could set
have failed to have perceived that her state wee amok
wane, sad yet he west away without rewriting say of
them MISIOUSI whisk the essamosiest lisseasity would have
dielated. At hell-pest 6 Medan* New dial, lest as be.
Bieskey, who led bees seat for by Halle. Harbaoad.
arrived. The seemed retained tar the third thee at 8
o'clock. mane. Herkesed. *hoot be net os the eleiresse,
told Ida at /Wane Ihiess's thellt. Tltit sew (Mid bin
so surprise, so essolioa. He meat upstairs, way approached
the mew d bar ilia bad ee leas roes b aoireee.

assured himself that she was really dead, and then withdrew,
leaving it to be supposed that her death had really been
caused by a fall on the stain:east " That is all nonsense,"
exclaimed Mdlle. Hurimoed, "Madame de Pans never fell
down stairs." And as lea Panstecais appeared to insist,
" Don't swear," she said to him, " you know well enough
that I know all about Madame de Pauw's affair." He hat
too well knew, also, what was the cease el this women's
death, and of that mum there cannot sow be the slightest
doubt—Widow de Pauw was poisoned by La Pontmerais in
the evening of November 16. The accused wee the last
person who saw her that night. He admits that she wee
seised with that vomiting which fiareishos to science the
proof that the poison must have bees administered some
momenta before. The next day he saw her twice :he sou
again aloe* with her. and nothing could have been more easy
than to repeat tbedose of poison dim thought it needfnl He
aloes bad an interest to commit the crime, and he bad
evidently imagined it at the moment when hems& Madame
de Pans effect those insuranoes which cannot be explained
'on any other hypothesis. What other motive in point of
fact could have actuated him? Did Madame de Pain really
owe him, sa the deed of Await 31st says, a sum of
I 550,01./Ofr..? He himself was forced to admit at the opining
of the instruction that this figure ma most usggeesied.
He at first reduced it to 150,0001. or 100,000 f.; subsequently
be tiontessed that that sum was far beyond the truth, and
ultimately he said that 25,000 f. was the sum really due to
him from her. But on his own coofession 1.3,0001. out
of this 25,0001. were not given to Madame Puy
till the God of September, and consequently lug
after the conclusion of the treaties of insurance.
In reality these loans or gifts amounted to but very small
sums, and it was from other people for the most part that
Madame Pans received the aid which her Unitised eir•
oemstances rendered necessary. But be this as it may, and
admitting ,for a moment the latest declarations of the ac-
cused, it would be for the sake of a sum of 12,0001. that he
made Madame Pans effect insurances for 550,000. It
wee upon his own showing to save himself the less of that
small sum, that he took upon himself the bedlam of pay-
ing every year a premium„of 19,0001. And even this en-
gagement he was not in a condition to fulfil. He bad
trouble eucogh to make up the money for the first pay-
ment, and he would very woe have found it impossible to
go on paying ; and yet he knew fall well that if he dropped
the policies, all the sums paid upon them would have been
utterly lost. But hie intention clearly was so to act that
the renewal of the premiums should never be
necessary ; and on the very day whew he called to renew
his acquaintance with his old mistress the crime was resolved
upon in his own mind. He bad then already provided him-
self with a really enormous quantity of digitalis, that poison
the trace of which, ea he well 'UMW, is DO difficult to find,
and the effects of which resemble those produced by certain
diseases of the stomach. Three grammes of digitalis were
porchased by him on the llth mad 19th of Jens, and of USA
oily 15 centigrammes were found in his house. What did he
do with the rest? He could mothers given it to his patients,
for that drug is not used in the homeopathic systempf medi-
cine which he practises, or, at all OM* only in TOY
minute doom. He does not, moreover, give the name
of any person to whom he famished digitalis.
He says, indeed, that be sent some to medical
brethren who live in the prorreoss, but he cannot
mention the name of any one of them. The death
of Madame Pauw explains but too well what beams of the
missiug digitalis. To the overwhelming charges against him
he
replies by fletderdals. He says he never dreamt of
taking the life of Madame Panw; and he insinuates that if
she really did die of poison, she must have taken it herself
when in • state of despair. Bat this insinuation is repo.
dieted not only by all the friend' of Madame Pans, but
also by the conduct of the accused himself on the 19th of
November. Is it not evident that if Madame Pans had
received the poison from any other hands than his ewe, he,
when be found her so ill on Tuesday after leaving her
quite well on Monday, would hays been anxious about bet
state, and would have endeavoured to ascertain
the cease? The profound study of the nature of
poison which he admits himself to have made
readers it impossible that he should have been
ignorant of theoatare of the Bluest under which Madame
Pane was suffering. The odour of the ejections which
covered the bed and the floor must alone have been a revela-
tion to him. His inaction in presence of such aymptons.
the cam which he took to say nothing to give alarm, or
to cause assistance to be sent for, and with ell that his
return to the house at two and at eight o'clock, would be
inexplicable if we did not know that it was he himself who
administered the poison to Madam* Pane, and that he came
to see how it was working. This sad event so little sur-
prised him, and he was so impatient to touch the
550,000 francs for which be had committed the crime, that
as soon as Madame Pens was dead he wrote to the eight
companies to ask for the money, and then, fearing
the difficulties which might arise from the Gelatines of
eltikken of Madame Pause, and wishing to make it
believed that he was acting in coojunction with those
whose duty it was to watch over their interests, he dictated
to his sister a Utter, to which he made her sign the name
of an imaginary advocate of Chateauroitx, by which letter
it was made to ;appear that the aromas had some to an
understanding with him ea to the niftiness to be taken in
the interests of the minors. The fruit of his crime was to
be gathered at any cost.
La Poinmerais. however, has pretended that far from
Wog actuated by a feeling of cupidity, he acted through-
out io the interest@ of the children ; aad in support of this
allegation he produces • deed, dated the 20th of last
August. by which he declares that he gives up to Madame
Pauw's children the besiefit of the policies assigned to him.
Bat it was soon apparent that this deed was
not serious. Ls Pommerais bad it in his own
possession, and no duplicate was found is Madame
Paue's house, so that nobody could have availed himself or
it unless the accused chess to reveal its is:datum Besides,
this deed is revoked by that of August 31, in which the
assignment of the policies was confirmed by Madame Patty,
without any reserve to favour of the children. Moreover,
La Pomineraia was far from considering himself bound by
the deed of August 20, for on Slavery day when he produal
it, the Judge of Instruction having asked him what in hauls,
was the effect of that deed upon his Whereat+, he replied
unhesitatingly that he should receive the 530,0001. in the
first place, and that the course he should take et terwards
would depend upon his relations with the family, and upon
the will made by Madame Pauw in his favour (a will by which
she gave him everything, even the interest of the children's
I mum). Whim he wasauested La Potoommisprodoced io his
justification twenty-three letters written to Lim by ILlnie.
' Pauw, between June 16 and Nov. 16, frost which It would
appear that the sort of insurance adopted by the deceased
was cheese by herself after mature consideration, and in
spite of objectioes made; that her object was to indemnify
La Pommerais for all the money sacrifices which he bad
made for her, and which had been continued slier the sig-
nature of the contract with the Insurance offices ; it was
stated moreover in these letters that at the latter end of
September she had such a violent fall cat the stain that she
thought she sbosld have died on the spot, and that the
person who ran to fetch a doctor did not expect to And her
alive on his return, and that ever nieceJune2o she bad
been so ill that her doctor bad prescribed her digitalis in
large quantities.
It is may to see that most of the facts mentioned In these
letters are io no respect oonfonnable to troth. For M-
atsui, 011 September 11, Madame Pans Smoke La Pow.
musts "on her knees* for haring sant has 30,000 e. and
the accused tumult admits that he never gays bee so large
• sum. Moreover, the instruction has established that
'Madame Puy did set have • fall in the swath of Sephies- I
I ber, and that she was is vary good health up he November
16, sod that at the time when the norameites were erboted,
and ecoemsectly after Jars 21, the physician to the oar
ponies ascertained that she was in parted health. Why,
therefore. do her lanais speak of her sufferings ad of her
taking digitalis ? The sewer to that is by this time very
plaio.
I Noes of these letters were written spoetatierusly by
'Madame Pans. They were all dictated by La Poinmerals
with a view to their being used for his Justilleaties.
Madame Palm wrote them, thinking they would be used
to prove her pretended illness to the oompanise, and Man
1 them to accede to the arrangement omit/teed hawses her
and La Pommels. He took them away with him as mom se
they were written ; they bear no pod-mark, and not seed
them has ever been crumpled in a way which a tottm. always
is when it panes through several haa‘. The noosed is
enable to may by wham these letters wire brought to bb
hone, and she concierges and servant' say they waver saw
au of them. Besides, while Madame Pauw always speaks
in them letters as if she never saw La P°
is is certain that at the daze el 12th, 14th,
16th November, which the three last letters bear,
she received visits from him. Her daughter, Yell-
eiti, declares that be made her mother write letters in
his presence. and that be took them away with Ma. These
then an the letters which, prepared by the mowed with a
view to his deems, do, is fan, add weight to the
against him. These letters an not the oely ons which he
dictated to Madame Pauw. The day after bon death several
of her relation, sad particularly her father mid einse, rir
mind letters written by her, In which ate Ogle them that
the is owe ill, sad begs Asa to come introodirrely. if they
would Sad bee alive. Then kitten, vet dated, but put
We
the post la the evades of 'November 19, a few me-
Imeats after Madame Pan, bad breathed her bat, were in.
tended te make the Madam believe that she hod nolly lad
a urine Mon and to prevent any ether swains.. It
Iwee the around who got her to write thane learn six
weeks timbre they were seat. She told Mdlia. liellneed
1 at the Man sad asearding to the expression of this wit.
aboupen,t IL it pained hie so much to write than list ale skid
'

—Tian is s wand indictment, aconsiag la Pots-
reersis al having, n 1861, poisoned his mother-in-
law, Madame Dirbisy, by digitaiis.