Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19
SINGULAR SUICIDE AT NEW ORLEANS.

The New Orleans Delta Of the Sd instant contained the
following story, which regarded at the ime gro
nance in real life but romance in the brain Of the writer
We observe, however, by the New Orleans papers received
yesterday that the principal incidents detailed have been fully
established in Judicial tribunal before which the wife
aagned having been accessory to the suicide Of her
husband but she discharged the ground that there
could not be accessory suicide Taken altogether,
the il novel The Delta thus relates the story
Charles Roussel poor French tailor, on St. Charles
street. being depressed in fortune and spirits few days ago
suggested in the hearing Of his wife, the idea of suicide
last resource against the ills Of hard existence This idea
fell like spark On the ndar on the susceptible and nAam-
mable character Of bis Partisan wife, She pronounced it
heroic thought and declared that she would share his fate
that, they long struggled together in life, they would
pass into the other world hand in hand. Fortunately she
added the Of carrying out their noble purpose
conveniently hand She had quantity Of arsenic, which
she bad bought some months previously poison They
could divide into two equal quantities. and drink of to-
gether The Frencbman accepted the proposition, and they
seated at the table, with tumbler before each
Here for the pen Of Sue Dumas from
real life, equal to the most exciting pictures in their wild
mances With slow precision and self possession, Mrs.
Roussel measured out the arsenic and poured the equal
portions into the tumbles She then filed them with clare
They then looked steadily each other and pause Of
minutes ensued during which they seemed to be making up
their last accounts with this world AT last the wife spoke
My dear, you do not drink you afraid sAfraid,'
exclaimed the heroic aior-sa Frenchman afraid = and
then seizng the glass; he drank every drop Of it, The wife
eyed him closely and when she that he had swallowed
the fatal dose her heart reented against the cruel world
views seemed to spring up before her. and her mind
samed the balance from which 1t had been disturbed by the
suggestion Of suicide. She began to think she had
- better bear the ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not Of
Under the impulse Of these feelings, the heroine
from the table, threw the contents her umber into the
Fireplace and proceeding old armor drew out much
powerful against the ills Of flesh than suicide
bottle of eau de The Fenchman closely observed
the movements Of his better half and at FIRST thinking that
she only preparing commit the fatal deed in the most
dramatic style and atude he did express any doubt
alarm but when he her deliberately assuage her grief
and desperation in long daught Of ye instead Of the
eau mort which had been mixed for the OCCASION II then
flashed upon his mind that be had been the victim the
wiles Of second Lucrea Borga He upbraided her in the
strongest erms and called in several of the neghbors to
whom he related the facts detailed. The wife, however,
assumed distressed and aeconate bearing, and fondng
her poor husband declared that she had only deferred her
destruction to that his remains decenty buried
Reconced BY these assurances the poor fellow fogave her
and soon afterwards was corpse"
The testimony Of witnesses before the Recorders Court,
in relating what the deceased had said previous to his death,
varied from the above statement in particulars VIZ Rous-
sci himself mixed the poison and after he had taken his por
ton Of it he wife having preferred bandy she became
alarmed and called in the neighbors It also appeared that
the deceased was afflicted with jealousy