Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-12-07

py's denunciation of her intended son-in
law as the assassin of her husband, ant
as her own guilty lover! This extraor
binary denunciation was made in letter
of which the following is an extract:
AS l have told you have too mucf
upon my heart. l suffer my conscience
gives me no rest. Yes | am an accur
sed woman. l have been guilty of every
vice, of every excess. / have been guilty
of falsehood, theft, adultery, and have
ended by becoming the assassin of my
husband 1t is by my fault, and through
my example, that my husband and my
child have become wicked. | have sown
evil around me- have fallen myself,
and in my fall have dragged down my
nearest family. l have passed part ofmy
life alternately as victim and seducer.
A man came into my house as a friend,
he became my lover, and the assassin OF
my husband. All, | deserve all possible
chastisements. Whatever penalties you
may inhict upon me, deserve them all.
They are an expiation. l resign myself
to everything! l submit to my destiny" "
Upon this denunciat;on of Madame
Trumpv, she herself and DR.. Demme
were arrested, and the remains of MIR.
Trumpy were subjected to chemical ex-
animation. And here we are introduced
to a new and most striking feature in this
extraordinary case. For some time no
traces of poison could be found in the
body; nor were any of the effects OF the
best known poison observable in it. DR..
Schwarzenhach, one of the examiners,
after testing in vain for morphine and qui-
nine, suddenly thought by accident of
strychnine, applied the test, and when he
saw the violet tinge appear, which reveal
the deadly presence, started back. as he
himself says "horror struck" But the
strychnine thus detected had neither pro-
duccd the cramps by which its fatal ac-
ton is attended nor had it passed beyond
the small intestines 1t had evidently
not been long enough in the body to cause
death
How was this accounted for? One
professor, Dr. Hausemann, supposes that
Trumpy, weary of his financial troubles,
took strychnine and that Jet0re it haa
reached the Erer, a shock Of horror at his
o,ca act sent the blood to las Jrain, and
caused his death Jy GpQl'Leay, the s'c!tt men
tai emotion ouTm0r"g thus the more n'ate'7-
al minister Of death T.!
This hypothesis would, of course, ac-
quit DIR. Demme. But in what hide
Gus light must Madame Trumpy then re-
main?
We shall revert to this terrible feature
in the case presently, pausing now to
point out another and scarcely less dread
full complication toward which the revela-
Iations of the chemical examination ap-
parently tend
One ofthe examiners, Mr. Emmert, is
known to entertain deep and bitter jeal-
ousv of Professor Demme, the father of
the accused. An anonymous letter pro-
duced in court, and in the handwriting of
Madame Emmert, was used by the advo-
cate of the prisoner to introduce, or at
least to hint, the frightful suggestion that
the poison found in the body had been
put there by DR.. Emmert as a means of
vengeance upon the two Demmes! But
the Younger Demme has since avowed
that he himself wrote this letter and
counterfeited Madame Emmert's hand
writing in order to throw the law upon
this track He maintains, however, that
anonymous letters had previously been
written to himself and to Madame Trum-
DIV, which he believes to have come from
Madame Emert. All this secondary plot
will be unvailed by the examination of
Madame Emmert and by the researches
of experts in handwriting.
Meanwhile the main force of the drama
is concentrated upon the conduct and
character of Madame Trumpy. Whether
Demme be guilty or innocent, it is i'm
possible to imagine anything more shock
ing than the moral phenomenon which
this parsonage of the terrible story pre-
sents.
Madame Irumpy is described as de-
vout Catholic, belonging to that class OF
which the author of &c lie Maudit" has
drawn so powerful sketch in his picture
of the female devotees of the parish of St.
Aventin. AT once cold and passionate,
ardent and cruel, she appears at the sue
cessive stages of this strange history as
half woman and half panther. She talks
calmly with him whom she accuses ol
being her lover about the way in which
he shall conduct the post mortem examina
tion of her husbands dead body! She
first throws her own daughter If her story
be true, into the arms of her own lover
and then ruins her peace Of mind for lite