Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-08

no trace of organic disease. The organs
were all apparently healthy. Bnt there
were certain appearancea- which denoted
that Madame de Pauw had not died nat
ural death. She bad been 10 perfect health
up TO the night before she expired. On
that night La Pommerais had had an inter-
view with her, which lasted q long time
The wretched woman was thoroughly dis
armed, and eaten up. with passion for La
Pommerais. ,...
There is something loathsome and yet
pathetic In the poor wretch decking her
self in her worn-out fnery to receive her
psrsmour, who in the dalliance of q simu-
lated passion was about 70 admister poisou.
Did La Pommerais administer this poison7
What evidence was there of the fact7 Re.
course was had To a horrible experiment.
Part of the body Of the dead woman was
as the counsel said, was sick, but he re-
covered. Neverthe eless the symptoms which
he exhibited were consistent with the effect
which would have been produced by the
subtle poison "digitalis."
Not .sAtisfed with this experiment, n.
TaFdieu collected together the matter which
had been elected on the floor of the room
by Madame de PAW. A decocuon was
made Of Il, andin twenty-five hours Anoth-
er dog, to which it was administered, died.
It is impossible in few lines to present an
analysis of the evidence Of the physicians
aud chemists on the question as to how the
poor woman met her death. But it is cer-
tain that the jury believed the opinions
delivered by the scientific witnesses for the
prosecution. .......
1t is not often that such crime as that
committed by La Pommerais has been, or
indeed can be, perpeIrated. 1t is next to
impossible that it should be perpetrated
with impunity. There is perhaps nothing
very singular, in France at least, in the
circumstance that mans friend should
carry on an intrigue with his wife after his
death. But in this case, unlesS La Pom
merais had been physiciAu we'll vsrsed in
poisons, unless be had been blinded and
inhamed with avarice, and unless the wo-
man had been go absorbed in passion for
her psrsmour as TO be ready to do his bid
bing, the murder would never have been
committed. ... ..
1t was strange haliuoination in La
Pommerais to believe that the insurance
Offices would pay E2O, 900 without some
sort of inquiry or that the suspicious of
Madame De PauW's family would not be
excited by her sudden decease. On the
other hand, La Pommerais displayed an
almost heroic confidence in bis own pow
ers over his mistress, when he dared TO
bring her to the gates of death without
elicitiug from her the slightest remon-
STRANGE. She was living iu her own house
she was surrounded by her friends aud
children. 1t is seldom that death, violent
and stealthy, approaches all at once with
out striking some resentment in his vic
tim. II, indeed, as We may assume, the
woman died of poison administered by the
Land of La Pommerais, it is singular that
no word should have escaped from the lips
of Madame de PAW that he administered
anything whatever.
a AccordipR to the prosecution, she was
In excellent health until the evenfuk which
Immediately presided her death. Next
noRni5gfshe iUas dying. She mutt have
felt herself sinking. Yet II is most certain
that she never spoke one word from which
it could be inferred that La Pommersis
gave her a morsel to eat, or even q cup of
water to drink. La Pommerais knew the
woman he had to deal with, and he dealt
with her accordingly. But his sin has
found him out, az he ought to have ex-
pected, if he had reflected calmly on the
subject. Widows do not die suddenly
without exciting Suspicion. Married men
do not insure the lives of their cast-off
mistresses, who are living in abject power
ty, for 100000; nor do insurance Offices
pay such demands without reasonable in
quiry. ... #Ha."s ,.