Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-02-04
he Latest Paris ss'Horror'-Howa Oacto
Poisoned his Patients after Securing tn cir

The latest horror in the French capitsl has
been excited by the revelations in the affair of
ire poisoning, by doctor, of his patients after
haylDg secured his fees upon gigantic scale
alter their deaths, by the insurance of their
lives TO an immense amount. The excitement
produced by the detection of the culprit has
been all the greater because he happens To be-
one OF the first amongst the doctors of Paris.
ADDED to this, the man is a real count-the
Count de CoarteZ de Ia Pommerage, one of the
finest names in The Province Of Orleap uais
AS may be supposed, when we add TO this i'm.
mense advantage OF noblesse, that OF youth,
good looks, and plausible address, the Counts
principal practice has al ways been amongst the
lao1es, and II is by one OF the farest and most
interesting of his clients that this system which
mas governed his success in acqu quiring a fortune,
has been discovered. The victim mad called
hlm IN some time ago for q slight irritation Of
the thrcat TO which she had been subject for
some years The doctor beheld at once the un-
projected position OF widow, with small for
tune, living an isolated life, with but few in
innate friends, and scarcely any relatives
The prey was marked out and pursued with
perseverance. In short time the widow had
insure her life for the fabulous sum of ID We
hundred thousand francs, the doctor undertake.
ing The management Of the whole affair. No
widow dies-this e1cites the curiosity of the
insurance office; the mater is locked into, no
other doctor is found TO have attended her save
one, who, being sent for by the ser vant. in
whose mind :. not suspiclon,'s as she says, .sbus
uneaslness," had arisen, went one night to
fetch In the doctor who lived In the next
muse. Als Rrntlemhn, on u0Qing the Symp.
toms to be nothing more serious than little
nausea, accompanied by burning pam in the
chest, believed IL nothing more than Indiges.
ton, and, after having ordered a mild emetic,
Withdrew, promising to repeat his visit the
Bext day. But before he lett his bed in the
morning be was required by note from the
lady containing the Zee tor tt single visit with
the request thar, g As his Emetic had done her
70 good-quite the reyerse-she must beg Of
him never to set his foot in her house again.
The message was so abrupt and ill. li.mannered
that II became nutural subject Of con versa
'ion among the doctors, " no in every country
are recognized as gcssips of the first water.
One of these, 10 whom The note was shown,
happened to recognize the hand writing as
that Of the Count, and, when the news of tho
ceath OF the patient was made public, he in
stsntly informed the insurance Off &c of the
circumstances. 1t was thus that suspicion first
fell upon the doctor, and the detection en- sued
The affair has made q tremendous noise in Par
is, and TO frightened the women, old and young,
titled and untitled, that the profession is at
discount. Theophile Gsutier will probably
arrsnee nice little comedy of horrors on. OF
II, SO that the /" sensation will last through
the winter, or at least until something equally
appalling shall occur.