Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-09-25

been to create grounds fof the inference that
an asss ssin had entered from The garden, and
escaped by the same means be thisas Il may,
the Duke was in the &C, Of executing this par-
pose at the moment that the nah servant pre-.
sentcd himself nt the same window to attempt
an entrance there TO the chamber Of the Ouch.
ess He ssw the fgute Of the Duke, who in.
stsntly retired on perceiving him.
The servant then returned to The doc: OF the |
Duchess chamber, and wing become seriously
alarmed forced the door in. The window shut.
ters being closed, the chsmber was iaintly illu-
minated by night lamp, the Duchess was
stretched on the Hoor with her head leaning OF. |
the divan. On Lighting the candles. which as
usual stood on the chimney piece, the horrible |
spectacle presented by the chamber wss disclo-
sed to the affrighted servants. The door was
literally sea of blood various articles Of fur
nl,ure displaced or overturned In the struggle
ls,t disarrsnged around The room. Tho Ouch.
ess still lived, but was speechless and scarcely
sensible. The first impulse of the domestics
was to rush forth and call for aid. One went
sistance and :he police the other went to the
Dukes room, when he presented himself dres.
| sed sa.-. .tt .5ta. .... t... ....s. . ..n
On hearing the intelligence the feelings he
! expressed were those Of rcprosch to the ser
wants for negligence in leaving tho house expo.
sed, more than tl'oee Of horror at the catrsstro.
phe. He rushed into the Duchess's room and
| t,,v hap in n, hor m khp .ofs
manruvre which was afterwards nscribed TO
the design Of obtaining q means Of explaining
| the blood upon his vestmeDts and person. The
police and medical assistance soon srrived, but
the latter was too late to be useful, the Ouch.
ess speedily expired, not from any wound abso-
lutely mortal, but from he,norhsge. The msgis.
Hates came ono by one, including the Procu
reur do Roi and the Procureut General and H..
naliy the prefect Of Police aud the Minister Of
| the interim. -.I . .1-
| A considerable time elapssd--,nsny inquiries
were rsised--searches made through sthe pre-.
mises and in the garden before the slightest
suspicion Tell on :he Duke. According to scine
reports, the inquiries addressed to the Duke
were not Of such a nature as TO indicata the hpr.
rible snspiciobs entertained by the magistrates
until the day of the 18th. Doubtless these
hInctionuties brouded on that suspicion long be.
fore they could make mp their minds 10 let il be
perceived by the Duke. At length. however,
the questluns OF The procureur tienetal assumed
an unequivocaI shape, and the Duke saw the
point to which they were addressed. He is re-
ported to have become as pale as corpse, and
to have betrayed in his person and manner, the
profound agitation which he felt. He retired
10 his roon the authorities not yet deciding Ia
place him under arres. nor 10 treat him in any
rrspec, as an accused person. 1t was at tha
moment tha, he is supposed to have swsllo wee
large quantity Of arsenic. .......5 ....
The medical inquiries subsequently, insli,u
ted. show that the effects produced by the poi
son are SO nearly identical with those Of chole
"a as 10 be undistnguishnble. I'm the fret in
stance, the medical men in attendance are I'D
rn,ted to have been betroy yed into an error b,
; this circumstance, and to have ascrbed the bros
tration, somi'ings, and other symptoms exhibit
ed BY the Duke, TO cholera, brought on by th'
tastropbe. On. the morning OF the 2lss, be
tween and 5 O'clock, the duke was removed I
the prison of the Luxembourg, the esidence be
ing deemed sufficient to establish a charge Q
: murder ag anst him. The chambst Of peer
: was constituted into a court of Justice by roys
+ ordinance, and committee appointed BY il, prt
ceeded on that day to examine the duke.
Nsrioue reasons are given by the medic'
r,en for the slow and inlerlnItting effects Of tn
poison; but the highes. authorities in the facu
ID ty agree THAT there is nothing exceptional in N
ID caee, and that the poison might remain in III
system Ibf several days withou, producing deaf,
p In tine the duke became gradually worse on II
N gsd aud 5i3d. and on the morning Of the 9th h
n approaching dissolution became evident the Ct
er rate Of the parish was called in, and the Ia
n rites Of religion was administered. and, after
agony Of fifty minutes, he died, at 30 minut
g, pest 4, on the afternoon OF the Gath
by The populace, highly e$asperated a, the
be trocity Of the deed, and believing in the ross
H. bii,y Of the victim being snatchcd from lustic
IL Though the influence Of his rank and weslt
ca crowded round the prison in large numbers. al
IN the authorities spwehended that bis rernsil
I'd might even be violated. Aher the body vi
nd exsmined by snatomists employed for the pu
sh pose, end the viscers, brain and other necessa
o. parts were taken away for analysis, it was d
to ,crmined to inter the remsins in the darkne
ne and silence Of the night 1t arrived at the grs