Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-02-08

with deadly hatred against him. 1t |
was Mrs. Caroline Finck, the young
widow of q Nashville mere lant. |
She was thirty-two years old, but |
looked Considerably younger.
Beautiful, accomplished and pos
sessed Of considerable means, she
received many proposals of mar
riage. Among her most aSSiduOus
suffers had been DIR. Bernards.
Three months prior to the above
narrated duel, the Doctor had called
upon Mrs. f'inck and informed her
that James Boyne, rich uncle of
his, whose sole heir he was reputed
to be, had been taken seriously sick
and was not expected to live.
"Mrs. Finck," added DIR. Bern
ards, twill you do me a favor to
visit my uncle and administer this
powder to him? Z shall call upon
him this afternoon"
The handsome widow, who had
about made up her mind TO become
DIR. Bernard's wife, readily consent
ed, and went to the house of the
Doctors sick uncle.
An hour later she returned, a prey
to the utmost agitation. She de-
spatched her servants in search of
DIR. Demands, who did not receive
the message before the setting in of
dusk.
When he entered Mrs. Finek's
house she was pacing her sitting
room uttering sighs and sobs every
now and then. Upon catching
sight of him she flew into great
passion.
"Villain, she exclaimed, ~
know now what you are -
"What am I?' he demanded,
with forced calmness.
a murderouS scoundrel! a pOis-
oner. Aye, your poor uncle has
told me everything. He said you
had twice attempted TO murder him
by means of subtle poisons, in whose
Manufacture you are an expert ~
The physicians eyes twinkled in
q very peculiar manner.
SPY the way" he said, "my I'M
Gle died a half an hour ago. The
! first medical men of Nashville shall
dissect his remains, and you will be
/ informed by them that the old man
was not poisoned.
But the widow turned deaf ear
! to everything ne had said to her.
81 shall never marry you :" she
exclaimed. beware of crossing
my path again :"
He left her, saying to himself,
''She shall pay dearly for this"
Mr.. B0yne's remains were dissect-
| ed, no poison found in them, and
/ l. s,,E ~ r.
After that time Mrs. Finck lived
| in great seclusiOn. Hence ntne of
the vague rumOrS about her charac-
ter, which DIR. Bernards cautiously
circulated about her after the sud-
I den rupture, reached her ears.
She became acquainted with Car
los Dupont, and gladly accepted his
offer to marry her. When DIR. Ber-
nards heard of this he became
greatly enraged, and the duel with
/ Dupont and the latter's sudden
death were the consequences.
Mrs. F'inck from that time for
! ward brOOded constantly over the
violent end of her betrOthed. One
day she called, deeply yelled, upon
DIR. ingalls,, who had been DupOnt's
surgeon at the fatal duel.
CDR. ingalls," she said to him, 81
have been informed that you have
still the bullet which pierced poor
Dupnnt's breast. Would you let
me have it?
! DIR. Ingalls, consented. He gave
her the paper in which the fatal
bullet was wrapped up. She I'M
folded the paper and took out the
bullet. The latter had assumed a
white color.
DIR. Ingalls, uttered a cry of sur
prise.
"What caused the bullet to turn
so white ?" she exclaimed.
"Wait a moment" he added.
He threw the bullet into a tum-
bier of water and poured half doz-
en- drops of the water into the mouth
of large frog.
The frog was Immediately taken
with commissions, and died in less
than three minutes.
The widow had watched the sur
geOn's movements with wrapt at
tentiOn.
"Now / know what caused the
burning sensation in Mr.. DupOnt's
wound" he said, slowly, land
what brought about his remarkably
rapid end. This bullet was coated
with arsenic. / will go and see DIR.
Bernards Immediately about it."
Mrs. Finck told him what Bern
ards uncle had told her on his
death-bed about his nephew.
The surgeon had an interview on
the startling subject with Bernards
who, Immediately after the doctor
had left him, decamped from Nash
vile.
But he died soon afterward, in g
truly shocking manner. The Mis-.
sissipi steamer on which he haC
taken passage exploded her boiler
and DIR. Bernards was so frightfullH
scalded that he expired two weeks
later in the most horrible agony.