Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1847-10-15
The sudden and involuntary exclana-


zion of q domestic had first directed at.
tention 10 this quarter, and every hour
confirmed the unnatural surmise. The
Duke, it was observed, was dressed al
THE time when the alarm vas first given,
though it was shown that he had gone to
bed for the night. His dressing gown was
stained with blood and though this was,
in part, accounted for by his contact with
the corpse, yet It was proved that he had
been washing portions of his dress, as well
as his hands, IN some water still remain
ing in a basin. A bloody cambria hand
kerchief was also discovered, and some
fragments of blood-stained linen and pa
pers were found half burnt in the fire
place. Wounds, looking like bites, were
detected on his hands, and bruises on O.
Their parts of his person. The hair in the
hand of the murdered lady corresponded
exactly with that of the Duke Ia a
drawer IN his room was found broken
ponlard, the blade Of which was stained
with blood. Such evidence as this could
not be overlooked. In those DAYS a peer
Of France could not be arrested, even un-
der criminal charge, except by an order
of the Court Of Peers, but the Duke was
put under surveillance on the evening Of
the 18th, and the police never quilted
him night or day. On the 10Th and fol-
lowing days lie was subjected 10 the
strlctest examinations, which he was al
most unable to endure Instead Of the
energetic, hasty, and irrascible character
for which he had previously been remark
able, total detection of physical and
mental strength was apparent. His an
swers to the heterogeneous were vague
and incoherent, and implied no satisfac-
tory account of any suspicious circum-
stance.
On the first day of the examination it
was surmised, from his weakness and
Prostratlon, that he had taken poison, and
medical aid was employed to neutralize
its effects. This so far succeeded that on
the 2lst he was removed to the prison of
Luxembourg, where he still continued to
improve till the evening of the 23d, when
violent symptoms of fresh character su-
Peryencd, and he expired in his bed about
five o'clock the following afternoon.
The Court Of Peers had been summon
ed for his trial and all preparations had
been made for the occasion, when Death
thus summarily superseded them. Great
discomfort was shown in the country at
such conclusion of the affair. For it
was remarked that even in his own house
the Duke could scarcely have taken the
poison without the prjvity of his guards,
unless it had been his habit to keep it con-
stantly about his person. While in the
Luxembourg he was under such vigilant
uperintendence that the taking a fresh
dose Of so active and violent substance
as was clearly employed, was altogether
out Of the question, unless the means of
self-murder had been deliberately sup
piled to him. and he had been command
ed, like Athenian criminals, to poison
himself in prison.
The people were indignant at this foul
and secret removal of a criminal from the
hands of justice, which few had ever more
provoked; for it was indeed
concluded that fer a man to attack the
mother of his own children, in the dead
of the night, to arm himself with poign-
ard and pistol, against lone and defence
less woman, and to hack her in pieces
after such a savage manner, was an enor-
nifty too monstrous to be compromised
Besides this, they were outraged at such
an example, in so conspicuous a station,
and coming as it did so ominously upon
those exposures of vice and corruption,
which had lately been made, it brought
to their minds the days preceding the great
commissions when the profligacy and vio-
Ience of the great had SO heralded public
dissolution and ruin, and when Madame
Roland's early innocence wondered " that
such a state of things did not occasion the
immediate fall of the Empire, or provoke
the avenging wrath of Heaven"
WHERE AND WHAT THE CITY
OF NEXICO Is.
This famous civ NJ the mercy of Gen