Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-06-08
Shocking Murder aud Suicide.


occurred on Saturday morning, at quarter be.
fore ionr o'clock, at the boarding house of MIR.
+. A. Esmiol, No. 81 Dock street, few doors
south of Walnut. It appear that few weeks
ago creole lady named Victoire Leuseur arri.
we'd in this city, and took lodgings at the house
in question, and shortly afterwards her husband,
Jules Lcsueur, arrived in this city also, and
having nscertained the whereabouts of his wife,
soon engaged boarding at the same place. II
appears howeve, that he and his wife we're not
fore, lived unhappy. He endeavored to per-
suade her to receive him once more as her
husband, and he would be kind, but it was all
in vain, she discarded him, and the morning of
the 9th ofNlay he wrote letter to her, decla.
ring that he could not live separated from her,
ana that il she would not consent to re.unite
with him. he would kill her, and then kill him.
SELF in order that they might be buried in the
same grave, and more speedily united in the
world to come. This letter, however. had but
little effect upon her, and she continued to treat
him with the same apparent indifference until
the consumation ofthe horrid threat On the
Both of May he wrote letter 10 the agent OF
Mrs. L., in which he used many sarcastic phra-
ses toward him, respecting the unfortunate wo.
man. On Saturday morning, at quarter be-
fore o'clock, he approached the bed where she
lay and awoke her, and wished her TO kiss him,
she turned her head away, and he then laid
himself down on the bedside, and drew pistol
and shot her. The ball entered the left side
and taking n circuitous passage. lodged on the
right side Of the spine. He Immediately drew
forth another weapon, and pointing it at hs
heart pulled the fatal trigger and in a few min
utes he was no more. The coroner was sent
for and having held an inquest, the deceased
was buried the same day. Doctors w. Moore
and Gibbons were sent for 10 attend the woman,
and having examined the wound, they found
! it mortal. They did every thing that humanity
and skill could devise, to ease the patient and
soothe her last moments, and few minutes be.
| fore 8 o'clock on Saturday evening death put a
| period to her sufferings. She viewed the ap-
! proach OF death with calmness feeling con-
a better fate than that which she had received
! from the hands of her cruel husband. In her
dying moments she related her troubles to a
friend at her bedside to whom we feel indebt-
ed for a knowledge of them. She said that
her maiden name was Victoire Picou and that
several years ago she married Mr.. Lesueur at
New Orleans,-Snortly after the marriage
ceremony was performed she learned, TO her
discontinue and surprise, that her husband had
wife and one child residing in France
This fact dates her first trouble--she then lear.
ned that he TO whom she had given her heart
and her fortune, was vilain-and villain OF
The deepest dye, as his subsequent treatment
toward her proved him to be. He squandered
her money time after time--protessed love with
his lips, while lurking devil was ranking in
his bosom. She, however, with the true atfec
tion Of wife, submitted to the i'll treatment
and bore up under the adversities with torti
f tude becoming christian, until at last an e
pooh arrived which plunged her into the deep
. est despair. On certain night she clothed
, him from head to foot from her own purse, 70
r the purpose Of meeting with party of friend
os she supposed from what he had told her, ant
when the appointed time arrived, the HUSBAND
was not to be found--the thought flashed acros
her mind that some i'll had befallen him, and sh
remained in this state of mind for some time
when she learned that her husband on the even
ing alluded to, had married another woman
Her feelings OF course can be better imagine
than described. She now learned that he
money had been given to the support of thi
woman, and at once she employed an agent t
adjust her papers concerning what property sh
r had left, and this having been attended 10, sh
/. LETT New Orleans for the purpose of becomin
an inmate of a convent, abouta weeks journe
4 from the city-but subsequently, altered he
i mind through the solicitations Of her friend
:, and travelled towards this city,and arrived her
;, some few weeks ago. Her husband being a.
prised of the fact of her departure, and being
nited to rather poor woman, left New Orlean
- and ascertaining that instead Of his second wi
4 going TO the convent, continued her journey
u Philadelphs he followed her and took lodging
. at the same house where she boarded. II
: result ofthis last fact is already known. II
lady was fine looking Woman, and vas in Il
torty-second year of her age he was go
~ looking man and wac aged forty years In h
ly dying moments she requested her friend TO ha
!, her buried in a separate grave from her hu
band, which request was faithfully attended
10 The remains of Mrs. l. were inferred in 4