Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-25
EVENING STAR,
STORY OF A HORRIBLE rRAeRDY-uuR.
~ DER OF A HUSBAND. - :
[From Mackenzie,s (Torou,o) Gaue,,s.I

physician, whose name need not be
repeated here, fed from below Quebec
to Vermont, where he was speedily ar
rested on q charge Of foul and cruel
murder, alleged to have been by him
committed on q seigniory near the 81.
Lawrence. He was accused of having
taken the life Of an estimable gentleman,
young man ard wealthy seignior, the
father of two fine children, at the inst.
CATION of their mother, then under "a
years OF age; woman of refined man
ners, good education, remarkable beau
ty, and aristocratic family connections.
The only question mooted in the Yer
mont tribunals was, whether the law of
nations, in the absence of a special
treaty, authorized state authorities TO
seize persons taking refuge within their
| territories and deliver them over to for.
eign power TO be tried for tife. The re-
publican courts decided that it did not.
The physician was, Of course, released,
and when Governor Van Ness became
Collector of Customs at the port Of New
York, urged him to relate all the cir.
cumstances he could recollect, including
-" Poins'' Aue iueluOTduua Stlll
preserve.
Many years elapsed. l returned to
Canada and to public life, and being on
business in Quebec, requested persons Of
advanced years and undoubted veracity,
residing in and near the place where the
murder was committed, to narrate the
facts just as they occurred Well may
we eXclaim, "truth is more wonderful
than fiction"
Mrs. - was on visit TO Quebec,
where she met with DIR. -, whom it
is said, she had been acquainted with
before her marriage they agreed that
her affectionate husband should be poi
soned; servant woman, who had been
long upon the seigniory under its feudai
chiefs, was sorely tempted to go down
to - and administer poison to her
master, and she went; stopped at the
manor house gave him enough of the
poison in beer to sicken, but not to kill !:
relented: returned to her mistress at
Quebec, and said she could not find it in
her heart TO farther injure the seignior !;
her conscience would not permit she
could not do it. All this took place
during the winter of 1e3-.
DIR. - and the lady were of course
displeased with her, and they finally
concluded that he must 20 down himself
and do their dreadful work he accord
lngly crossed the st Lawrence travel
| ing along in his cariole to -, where
he called upon the Seignior, asking him
to take drive with him in the cariole !:
and they went TO the barn of farm not
far distant, to see some cattle, where the
Doctor suddenly struck the seignior on
| the head with the butt end of his heavy
pistol till he became senseless; the muir
derer then dragged him back t. the csrri-
ole, laid him in the bottom of it, put the
robes on him, and then sat in it with his
feet upon his body. From thence DR..
- drove to the beach: intended to bu-
! ry his victim in the ice; on the way, how
ever, the seignior recovered his sense so
far as to scream aud moan family. Some
OF the habltanS met the carriole, and ask
ed what the Doctor had got in his carri-
age; who replied "a pig he had brought
and was taking home, and which he
kept under his feet to prevent his es-
cape"
At the beach the butchery was COM
pleted, but the murderer had so mangled
the body that the blood ran down from
ho carriole, and left red track or streak
upon the snow, extending for great dis
tance from the spot where the corpse was
hid, buried under huge pieces of ice, on
the south shore of the great River of Can
ada. ..-
Terror speedily took hold of the strong
mamie felt the whole guilt of his dread
full position, and putting his horse to its
full speed, reached Point Levi at two
o'clock the next morning, where he
stopped at poor mans house, and
| asked the wife to let him lay down and
rest on bed, but not to touch his sleigh
and robes, as he had just come from a
medical operation, the blood from which
had been split on the furs. He thus rest
ed until four, and then rose and made
his way to Vermont, it having been ar
ranged between him and the wife of the
innocent and very estimable gentleman
he had slain, that she was soon to follow
him to place agreed on. She, however,
wrote him first, and he replied that he
never wished to see or hear from her
again; and 1 believe he never did
Whether he yet lives / have not ascer.
tained. His brother belonged to the
church, and was at that time . teacher
of youth, cheerful, piolls ard we'll be-
loved. From the day of that flight he
never again held up hisAead among men
but speedily dropped and died Of broken
heart. ....
There was great excitement in those
days, at Quebec; the young seignior's
body was, of course, soon found, being
readily traced by the train of blood upon
the beach and road the worthy gentle
man had been at once missed and very
diligently searched for. IS looks
had actually filled her with such extreme
terror that she did not even dare to wake
up her husband, but; allowed the stran-
ger to rest as he had desired, too much
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