New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-26
THE .pREAM.WARNING.

Grove, in . The Night Side OF Nature as having oc
CURED 1t Odessa in the year 1872 An old blind man.
named Michel had for many ysars been accustomed to
get his living by seating himself every morning a
at M fee enS into which tse cast Their s1ns
This long continued practice had made him well known
the and as he was believed to have besn
formerly soldier bis blindness attributed to the nu
wounds he had received in battle For his own
part he spoke little and contradcted this opinion
y 1 T
the verge perishing with cold and hunger The
old took her home and adopted her and from that
me instead Of sitting in the timber yard he went about
the streets in her company asking aims at the doors Of
the houses The child called him father and they were
extremely happy togstnsr ss III, . Il t fo ,
five years misfortune befel them theft having been
committed in house which they had visited in the morn
ing, Paweska suspected and arrested and the blind
man was left alone But instead of resumng
his former habits he disappeared altogether and
t circumstances causing the suspicion to extend 70 him
the girl brought before the magistrate to be nterro
gated with regard to his probable place of conceament
Do you know where Michel Is y, inquired the magis-
trate.
is dead 2, replied she, shedding torrent Of
AS the girl had been shut up for three days without
any means Of obtaining information from without this
answer together with her unfegned Distress naturally
cited considerable surprise.
9 who told You he was dead ~ they inquired
Nobody
q Then how can you know it ~
II saw him killed y
But you have never been out Of the prison ~
But saw it, nevertheless y
Bnt how was that possible? Explain what you z
Il cannot All can say is, that saw him killed .
9When was he killed, and how ?'' 4 *
It was the night was arrested. y
9That cannot be- he alive when you we're seized'
aYes he was he was killed hour after that they
stabbed him with . knife y
Where were you then r. s5s8 SsGsSss5ss
II can't tell but I saw 1t.
The confidence with which the girl asserted what seemed
to her hearers impossible and absurd. disposed them
imagine that really either insane pretending t
leaving Michel aside they to intsrro
gate her about the robbery asking her she was guilty
l n0i |s + :
Then the property to be found about you 2?
u don't know; I saw nothing but the murder
But there grounds for supposing Michel is dead
| his body has not been fodnd.n
| !" It is in the acqueduct"
aAnd do you know who slew him :,
Yes; it Ii woman Michel walking very slowly
l after was taken from him. Awoman came behind him
with large kitchen knife but he heard her. and turned
round and then the woman flung piece OF gray stuf
over his head and struck him repeatedly with the knife
The gray stuff much stained with the blood Niche
fell At the eighth blow and the dragged the body
to the auueduct and let it fall in without lifting thu
| stuff which stuck to his face y
As was easy to verify these latter assertions they dis
With the piece stuff his head exactly she has
described But when they asked her how che knew al
this she could only a snswsr WEI Ia don't n, know
aNot exactly lit is the same woman that put out hi
eyes but perhaps, he will tell me her name tonight
l and II he does I will tell it to you.
/ aWho do you mean by he ~
i sWhy Michel, to be sure y
During the whole Of the following night without allow
ing her to suspect intention they watched
it was observed that she down. but sat
bed in sort Of cthargic slumber Her body was quit
motonless except at intervals when this repose wa
interrupted by violent nervous shocks which pervade
Il her whole frame. 'sls
On the ensuing day the moment she was brought be
fore the judge she declared that she was now able to e
them the name Of the assassin
But stay said the magistrate did Michel never te
orb but The morning before was arrested he prom
sed to and that was the cause of mis- death"
& How could that be ~ !.
nFtu ,tolk krk
hidden behind the scaolding on which he and ha
been sitting He showed me the man listening to u
when he said, I tell you all about that tonight ; an
I. Do you know the name Of this man ~
aIt Is Luck he went afterwards to broad street th,
down to harbor and he entered the third hou
on the right.n
What is the name Of the street ~
don't know but the house Is one story lower tha
the adjoining ones Luck told Catherine what he ha
heard she proposed to him to assssnate Michel b,
refused saying, was bad enough to have burnt Of
his eyes fifteen years before whilst he asleep Mt yo
door and to have kidnapped him into the country M
went in charity and Catherine put piece Of pa
into my pocket that might be arrested tnen she
herself behind the aqueduct to wait for Miche and 81
killed him = s9gsss
But, since you say all this, why did you keep =
Iplate? Why didn't yDu give Information y
But didn't see it then. Michel showed it me Ia
night''
d But what should induce Catherine to do this q
aMichel was her husband, and she had forsaken him
come to Odessa and marry again. One night, ifte
years ago, she Michel who had come to her. s.
slipped hastily into her house. and Michel who thoug
she had not seen him lay down at her door to watch
he fell asleep and then Luck burnt out his eyes and
. ried him to distance.i' "
And is 1t Michel who has told you this.''
sYes he came very pale and covered with blood.
he took me by the hand and showed me all this with
: fngers.a 49,
Upon this, Luck and Catherine were arrested, and
was ascertained that she had actually been married
Michel in the year 1919 at Kherson. They first den
the accusation but Pawleska insisted and they sub
quently confessed the crime. When they communicat
the circumstances Of the confession to Pawleska,
said was told it last nightn This affair naturally
cited great interest, and people all round the neighb
hood hastened into the city to learn the sentence