Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-12

Rrcslau Correspondents Of. the London Times,
On the 10th of July last the old ST.
lesian city of Jauer was the scene of d
spectacle which few Of those who wit.
messed it will soon forget. It was the
execution of handsome and accom-.
plished Young girl of nineteen, named
Hermina Olauser, who had been con-
svicted OF having poisoned three per-
sous among them boy Of seven years
OF age. The details, Of the crime, and
of her execution. by the headsman's
axe, are equally painful and revolving.
About sixteen months ago Young
Hermina Clauser; who was an orphan
girl, il! butt had :bean we'll !. educated
through the kindness; of an old aunt of
hers, was engaged % Governess in the
house Of Henry Steinbacb, q wealthy
'Silesian farmer, at Lengenfeld, nine or
ten miles from Jauef: Steinbach had
two children, a eoh, twenty-one years
of age, a handsome, dashing young fel.
low, whohad studied: law at Heidelberg
and Breslau, but he had become thor.
ough rake, and lived at the time on his
fathers fal m. The other child was
boy, Arthur by name, as whose COVER
ness Mile Hermiua Clauser was en-
gagged. Shortly after her arrival at
Lengenfeld. Bernard Steinbach, the
elder son, began to make love to her,
and, as he was we'll versed in all the
tricks Of Lovelace, the young governess,
in her inexperience, did not Withstand
him long. They became very intimate,
and by promising to marry her he sue
ceeded in overcoming her virtue. The
liaison lasted four or five months. and
the accomplished Hermina did not for
moment suspect that she had fallen
prey to an unscrupulous scoundrel,
who never intended to marry her, and
who merely looked upon her as a play
thing, to be thrown aside as soon ~ be
had reveled long enough in her charms.
!, Her eyes were suddenly opened when
another young lady, o cousin of the
Steinbachs, appeared on the scene.
Her name was C0nstantia Miller. She
was an heiress-one! of those dusky
beauties that are So frequently met
with in Sllesia, and in whose counte.
nance. the characteristic type of the
Slavic race is distinctly recognizable.
Stylish and accomplished us she was,
it was not surprising that she mnde d
decided impression on Bernard Stein:
bach's tickle and susceptible. heA<t.
Old Steinbach wished that; the two
should be married. Poor Hermipa was
neglected by her faithless lover, and
one day she was startled by the an
EnQuncement that Bernard and Con-
seantla we're engaged to he married.
She sought IN interview with the man
who had So hasely deceived her, and
he told her with cool cynicism: that it
was all true. His father desired the
union and he dared not oppose his
wishes -
Hermina trembled with rage, but
she manageable conceal her agitation.
and when Bernard left her he was won
dering at her tranquility. and aattered
himself with the belief that she was
resigned, and that, his intimacy with
her would. cause him no further troubles
Delusive belief! The demon of
jealousy and revenge tortured her poor
heart, and in her sleepless nights she
conceived the horrible idea of taking
the life of the man who had deceived
her SO cruelty, and of the woman who
she thought had stolen her lovers
heart from her: Two days afterwards
she said she ished to make some pur-
chase in Jauer, and rode to the city.
She had, for some time past, done
some writing for. old Steinbach, and no.
tably written the orders he sent to the
grocery and drug stores, So. she. went
with an order. purporting to have been
signed by him, to the apothecary Of
whom he bought his drugs, and OBJ!
tanned from him quantity of arsenic
sufficient to kill dozen persons, and
which she said was destined for the
rats in Steinbach's barns.
After her return to Lengenfeld, that
very night, she tried at the supper ia:
bic to put some Of the. poison into the
cups from which Constantia and Ber-
nard drank their tea. dt'was almost q
miracle that she did not accomplish
her fell purpose on this occasion. But