Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-08-12

tress. The intimacy continued until 1861
when La pomlneri#s married Mdlle. Du-
biiy, and until last sunia5er he saw roth
ing Of Madame Paw. During this peri
cd be even refused to visit her sick chill
dren. But in June last he re-appeared il
the second floor Of the Rue Boaaparte.
Madame pauw~was surprised, aid per-
baps gratiaed, because La Pommerais came
TO announce that he had hit upon plan
or providing for herself and her children.
But how His proposal was that she
should insure her life for coz 600, that as
she was poor he would pay the premiums,
aud that the policies should be assigned tc
him. So far it is obvious that neither
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rive any benefit under such an arrangement,
whereas Ter object was to secure to herseli
and her children some immediate relieffronl
poverty. His plan for overcoming this diff
GcutY was ingenious to a degree.
II was that, after the proposed insurance
should be effected, Madame PAW should
pretend to he seriously i'll, and make the
insurance Offices believe that sho was on the
point of death Having excited their alarm,
La Pommerais promised to 60 to those off
ces with the proposal that they should can
eel the policies on the terms Of paying her
a life annuity Of e24O, TO run from Janua-
ry /. 1861; and this annuity Madame
Paw was to share with La Pommerais. -
Madame PAW, we az told, "had not the
courage to jet this strange proposal. .
Tie gallant and courteous pls ader adds
She was incapable cf suspecting the real de-
signs Of La pommerais, overwhelmed rs
she was BY her passion for him-a passion
now revived aud stronger than ever Ac-
cordiDgly broker was employed to effect
those assurances with light cotn pauies-the
story being that a rich Trenchnan, the
Count Dc La pommerais, was DESTROYS of
providing for his children by Madame
PAW by insuriug her life, Which was an
excellent one. The insurance was effected
The eight policies were signed last July
aud transferred to La Pommesais. who also
paid the first premium.
But there was weak point which la
pommorais was obliged to met Why
EGO goo to La Pommerais why should
she deprive her children Of all possible
benefit in so large sum OF money? It was
necessary for La Pommerais to stand in the
position Of credit.r. Besides. therefore
taking the precaut;on of having the policies
transferred, La Pommerais obtained 0
written admission that he had advanced
money IA tie widow to amount equal tt
that secured by the policies. This admiss-
ion he got her to make in various forms
aud even induced her To make a viii ii
which she bcqueathed all her interest in th'
policies to him Thus, if the G22 ,00(
ever was paid, it would probably find it
way into the doctors pocket.
But premiums were large. They
were due in January, and it was obvious
" Of importance that La Pommerais shoult
relieve himself frcm his liability By iudu
cling the companies to buy up the pollccs
or rather TO exchange them for an annuity
Besides, it was the obvious interest Of Mal
ame Pauw that the annuity should begin al
soon as possible. But in order to get Thu
policies brought up on the most advantage
ous terms it was necessary that Madam.
Paw should fvign illness. The poor wo
man seemed to have entered into the spill
Of the transaction. She pretended to have
had fall she complained of pains in hel
stomach !; she consulted several physicians
accepted their prescriptions, but instead o.
following them handed them over to hel
paramount.
Notwithstanding all this hypocrisy Mad
PAW went about her usual occupations
but in November La Pommerais desiree
to keep her bed Madame Paw was daily
expecting that the doctors from the cotbpa
nies would visit her, and il was absolutely
necessary that when they did she shoult
show signs of illness. La Pommerais hac
promised that be would administer some
drugs to her. that would produce signs 0
agitation. At the same title showed tina
she was doing all this because, as she tolt
her friends, 'ifI succeed. nay fortune anc
THAT Of my children is made. All hay,
10 do is to keep NY bed for about a fort
night :,
Aftor Thursday, the 18th Of November.
Madame Paw never seems to have left th&
house. and the visits Of La Pommerais be.
came veey frequent On the evening O
Monday, the 10th, he remained long time
wit her and when the servant came in on
Tuesday morning. she found the woman
extremely i'll, and the floor stained by voni
ting. Her daughter proposed to send fol-
doctor. but her mother refused La Pom
merais came, aud remained loug time in
the bedroom alone, but be did nothing te
relieve her nor did he express any alarm
About the middle of the day anothe,
doctor came, but he wont away in rage
without examining her, because he discov
cred that his prescription had been neglect
Ied la Pommerais returned again But
as before, he did nothing to relieve her
About half past six o'clock the same even
ing, Madame pauw died La Pcmmerai,
arrived at eight o'clock. He was told thai
the poor woman was daad.
Undoubtedly the circumstances were
such as to excite grave suspicion Withit
a few DAYS the sister Of the deceased made
a charge against La Pommerais. The
corpse was examined the man himself was
inte,rogand. If the evidence Of the doe
tors ran be relied upon. traces ef the poison