The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-06

the e1tI6m6s Augusta WHtoAS AoA"
high rank among
THE BEAUTIES or RICHMOND.
Old Mr.. Waters was absent from. the
city when the terrible occurrence at the
Old Dominion saloon had taken place,
and consequently his daughter Augusta
was the first relative that called upon
the prisoner at the jafI.
Strangely enough. notwithstanding
the fearful predicament In which her
brother found himself, she did not seem
to be very deeply affected. The jailer
who admitted her to the prison at once
noticed the girls singular Indifference.
She said to him:
II want to have private interview
with my brother"
The jailer refused to comply with this
request In accordance with the rules OF
the prison. Now Miss Waters became
intensely excited.
II must see my brother alone r. she
said, with flashing eyes, angrily stamp
ing her small foot.
The iaiIer's suspicious now became
fully aroused. He pretended to yield.
and said to her.
"Well. will let you see him, Miss"
But all alone?"
"No one shall be present"
He conducted her to the cells, in the
darkest and strongest OF which her
brother, whose hands and feet were
heavily ironed. were confined.
The jailer walked rapidly back TO the
office OF the prison, but entered imme-
diately dark and narrow corridor,
along which he walked on tiptoe until
he was close to Joseph Waters cell.
There he listened attentively to the
conversation which the sister was hold
Ing with her brother. The very first
words he heard the girl utter produced
A STARTLING EFFECT
upon him. The conversation between
Augusta and her brother lasted about
fifteen minutes, when the jailer heard
her say to the prisoner:
Good by; I will write to you in a
few hours"
The taller hurried back to the office,
which the young girl likewise entered q
few moments afterward.
Here, jailer, is o ten dollar bill, }"
she said to him. II shall soon send you
q letter to my brother, about which you
must not breathe word to anybody"
He nodded his head and she left the
office of the jail, evidently q prey to
profound agitation. He was pacing the
room excitedly when the district at
torney entered.
'"This is very sad case" said the lat.
| ter to him, abiding to the homicide OF
young Seymour. There is
AN INFAMOUS PLOT
| at the bottom of this foul murder, Mr..
| District Attorney" replied the jailer.
| What do you. mean, sir?" asked the
district attorney.
The jailer then told him that he had
heard Augusta Waters say to her
brother that she was glad he had killed
Seymour: that she was not enceinte at
all by the latter; that she had Ia her
possession $4,000 belonging to .Sey-
mour that her brother should have
one half Of that sum, and that she
would marry her real paramount, one
Ioutrelle, q French dancing master,
who had planned the whole affair, and
who was now in the neighborhood OF
Richmond to hire few desperadoes,
| who were to help the prisoner that very
night from the county jail.
"Why. this Is horriblel" exclaimed
the district attorney. But where is the
confederation, my friend2"
The jailer then told him about the ten
dollar bill and the letter which Miss
| Waters was to send to her brother.
| The district attorney remained at the
Jail until the letter arrived.
| LII lulty GOllObplhhClG uo JuAiCA c0boo-
ment, and gave the place whore Lou
treble could be found.
| Half an hour later Augusta Waters
was arrested, and later in the day Lou
trelle, the Frenchman.
| When old Mr.. Waters returned next
day to the city the terrible news affected
him so profoundly that he became 9
raving maniac. and had to be removed
to a lunatic asylum.
The three prisoners were tried fol
conspiracy and murder in the following
month OF April.
The jury found Loutrelle guilty, and
he was sentenced to be hung.
Waters was sent to the penitentiary
for ten years, and his sister got of with
only one year in the House of Correc
ton, there being reason to believe thai
she was of unsound mind.
Such. indeed, proved to be the case
and she had to be removed a few days
later to the lunatic asylum.
Loutrelle was hung on the 10th Of
June, 1889.
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