Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-14
MISTRESS OF ABAD FELLOW
Famed Albert ;Falonde, and had I

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Famed Albert >Falonde, and had upon
numerous occasions, since the establish
ment of her intimate relations with Rao-
I'll, submitted to Albert's embraces, not
because she even loved or liked him, but
from fear that if she did not he might
betrsy ;hsrito 'Raoul, who did mot even
know of his existence. But she had not,
she averred, seen Albert within two
weeks Of the; murder, and did not know
| where he was.
The medical men declared that from
the coldness Of Raoul's corpse when in
specifically them in the early. morning
they were confident he must have been
murdered as early as 3 a. m. at least
That hour was bringing the time very
close to the hour at which the unhappy
girl admitted having left him "alive and
well'i his room.
OF course her story was not believed {;
she wasAnown to have felt pretty keeuly
Or to have professed such feeling-h1s
refusalato marry her, and nobody credit
| ed his final consent to that mad act which
she averred. >She was the only one to
whom could be assigned that for which
the police always seek, motive. Raoul
had no enemies, none who had suffered
even on imaginary grievance athis hands,
except her. The assassin was surely not
a robber, for the victims purse and jew
elry were untouched 1t seemed quite
clear that Loyse, in a moment of mental
excitement arising from her morbid men,
tai and abnormal physical condition. had
committed the great crime, and her con-
fession OF faithlessness had robbed her Of
even the sympathy she might otherwise
have had. She was sentenced to
IMPRISONMENT, WITH HARD LABOR, FOR
LIFE.
Her prison life was short, however, for
| when she gave birth to her child puer-
peral fever set in, and after g few hours
of madness she died. Her child also
died. In her !delirium she raved words
that convinced her hearers that she was
guilty OF tie murder, and that her judge
ment had been just. Yet, as was subse-
quentlv demonstrated, these words were
but the colnings of a broken heart and
brain full OF misery, the results Of. long
broodlng over the hideous fatality; that
overwhelmed her, for
zoYsE AANIQvE WAS INNOCENT.
In 1927, six years after the murder of
Raoul Jaconneau, a, vulgar and cowardly
assassin and thief. calling himself. Jean
| Melandier Was convicted of the butchery
| of an old woman named Rose Pinette,
keeper ct a low thieves wine-shop, his
object being plumber, and was sentenced
to death He was an abject wretch and,
finding himself face to face with the
gallows he hosvled for a priest and pro-
tessed penitence for his manifold sins.
Among other things he confessed that
his real name Was Albert Lalande, and
that he was the assassin Of Raoul Jacon-
neau. He said shat he had been Jealous
of RaoGl, and had stolen the ugly clasp
knife from Loyse for the purpose, two
weeks before the, murder, to which it was
finally applied.
On the night or morning on which
Raoul was killed, he had logged the
couple home, had managed to Slip past
the Fortress door unseen, while Raoul
was reading the note left for him by his
comrade, and Loyse was talking with
Mad. Pelegrn, and had glided up stairs.
Loyse went to her room and Raoul went
to his.
After few minutes Raoul left his roem
door ajar, ran up to Loyse's door and
callei her down to his room. Meantime
Albert darted Into Raouls apartments
and secreted himself there in closet.
In few minutes the young girl and
her lover entered. Raoul had made up
his mind to grant her request, and she
was overjoyed. What Albert saw and
heard 1nf1amed his jealousy to the ut
most, but he restrained himself until
Loyse had retired to her room, and Raoul
had gone to sleep. Then he emerged
from the closet and
STRUCK THE FATAL BLOW.
When he left the room he locked the
door on the outside and pushed the key
in again under the door. Once in the
street he threw away the bloody knife.
When the deed was done he recognized
its eno1mity. 1t was his first murder,
and he was afraid Of justice He fled
to London, left innocent Loyse to her
fate, and did not return to Paris until
five years after, and then under the mask
of a new name. The scoundrel was hang
ed and the empty formula of clearing
Loyse's fame by reversing the decree of
her condemnation was gone through with.