The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-22

DEATH OF A MIsER.-A curious case has been sub
mitted to the Imperial Court. An old woman,
named Domingo, who at time of her life had
been a cook, but who for many years had been ac-
customed to go about the streets to seek for odd OBJ
Jects in heaps of refuse, died in November 1854 in
her lodgings in the Rue st. Charles Vaugrard.
Her sister, widow named Giraud, and the atter's
daughter, Madame Mousset Immediately hurried
to the house and began examining heaps ofrags skins
and filth of all kinds, with which the rooms of the
deceased were filled They soon found several bags
filled with silver coin, to the amount of 26, ,000f.
Some time after Madame Giraud was told that
her daughters son, Desire Mousset, had after her
departure from the house, made new examination
of the heaps of rubbish and found a sum of about
100000, which he had taken to his mother, and
which they had appropriated. Madame Giraud
at first would not believe that her daughter was ca
pable of deceiving her; but many circumstances
were adduced in support of the statement that she
was obliged to believe it. She, in consequence, OBJ
tanned an authorization to examine her daughters
house, but the search led to nothing She shortly af
ter died. Her heirs were her daughter and the lat
ters four chlldren-twO daughters, married to men
named Jourd heuil and Renaudin, and two sons,
Alexander and Desire; but the two daughters and
their husbands and the son Alexander were sur
prised to find that the property left by her was much
less than to have been expected and they
strongly suspected Madame Mousset of having clan
destnely taken possession of portion of the money
and securities On examining the will of the de
ceased, it appeared that she so convinced that
her daughter had appropriated money left by Mad
anne Domingo, that she expressly directed that she
the daughter) should only receive that portion of
her property to which she had legal right, and
that all the rest should go to the two girls and the
son Alexander.
The suspicion that Madame Mousset had appro-
priated money of her aunt if not of her mother al
so, subsequently confirmed by her having,
though for the greater part of her life very poor
been seen in possession of Treasury bill of 20 ,00Of
and of several bank notes, and by her having pur-
chased some ground, and built houses on it. An in
vestigation was instituted, and named Mich
ellie came forward and made statement to the fol-
lowing effect: "That he was waiter in a public
house at Vanguard, and when Madame Domingo
died he employed to clean out her apartment
He was present when the 26,0G0f found, and
he helped Madame Giraud and Madame Mousset to
put them into a cab, which drove to their residence
in the Rue Melilmontant Shortly after, Desire
Mousset said to him that there was probably more
money in the rubbish and proposed that they should
examine it together; at the same time offering in
the event of more being found to give him portion
of it provided he would not tell. They searched the
rubbish, and found behind old trunk, beneath
the bed, and in large earthen pots, covered over
with cinders, not fewer than 35 bags filled with mo-
ney. Some of the bags they placed in a cab, and
the vehicle drove to Madame Mousset's residence
where she received them.
The next day they carried off the remainder of
the bags in a cab, and also delivered them to her.
As well as he could judge, some of the bags con-
tanned about l,OOOf.; others so heavy that ne
could only just manage to carry them. On the
strength of this statement which was partly con-
firmed by the cab drivers, the two daughters and
the Alexander brought action before the
Civil Tribunal against their mother to recover from
her 100 000f, which they estimated to be the amount
she had improperly appropriately Paper.