Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-06

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father and mother, and there afterwards
passed some words between her husband
and herself, she took the affair in tragic
manner, and hastily leaving her house at
o'clock at night, hired a carriage, dismissed
it near one OF the bridges, and when 1t had
! disappeared, threw herself into the Seine.
/ Her husband supposed she had left him to
return to her parents, whose cause she had
! esp FUSED, and in consequence tormented
himself little about the affair The next
morning, believing that night had suficed
/ to calm the anger of his relatives, the hus-
band repaired to their house and asked for
his wife 1t was then they all grew uneasy
and instituted search for her Having
learned through the papers that a young
woman answering to the description of the
daughter and wife had been found in the
Seine, they immediately went to the
Morgue in search of her. They grieved
deeply over the young creatures untimely
death, and the parents in their sorrow
could not refrain from laying all blame at
the husbands door. In fact, so great YVES
the indignation of the public that the young
man was obliged to close his business and
leave the country.
THE MORGUE
Is one story stone building situated i'm
mediately back of Notre Dame and be-
tween two bridges, that leading from the
island of St. Louis to the city, and another
from the city to the st. German quarter.
Just within the door, arranged on the wall
SO as TO be visible to the passers-by, are
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they have been discovered assassinated,
and placed before the pablo so as to lead
to the discovery of the murderer. At the
extremity of the Recorders office, to the
right, is found little door leading on to a
very narrow corridor. 1t is through that
one directs his steps toward the hall where
the autopsy takes place, and of the hall
where the conformation is held. The au-
topsy room is so small that only five or six
persons alone can congregate there with
ease. In the center is long table Of zinc
with very narrow edges on which the corpse
is placed along the wall are deep cup
boards, and in the back sort of small
closet where are kept anatomical pieces in
alcohol. and there also many useless articles
are cast while waiting the moment of their
destruction. Beside this room Is the con-
frontation room, which is sort Of parlor
furnished IN green reps, with a round table
covered with the same cloth the windows
look out on the street, but heavy thick cur
tains separate it from the outside 1t is
here criminals, after having been con-
fronted with their victims, are conducted
IN the presence of the Judge of Instruction,
of the Chief of Security, and sometimes
witnesses. The men employed at the
Morgue have amused themselves writing
the names of celebrated assassins on the
backs of the chairs on which they sat, and
there are Tropman's chair, and Mayeaux's
chair, beside others. One goes Immediately
from this room into that of the 'reconnus,
which contains twelve ''places," twelve
closed sarcophagii, where all bodies are
placed whose identity has been recognized J;
these sarcophagii are of zinc, and quite
high. But the room truly exciting, the
traeical corner of the Morgue, is that which
joins this last the hall called 'd'drriUee, +"
an immense room, absolutely bare, without
a single piece Of furniture, leading without
a step directly on to the court, and entered
by very large door. 1t is here the hand.
carts arrive, carrying the bodies, which
they let glide on to the floor. The corpse,
still dressed, remains there until the gar
dien,' dressed in the traditional red shirt,
comes to take off its clothes and searches
closely all marks and items by which the
identity may be discovered which he does
in the presence of the recorder, who writes
the whole upon his book. From this room
the body is carried to the public hall The
room adjoining this contains an infinite
number of shelves and closets, where the
clothes Of the dead are arranged IN pack
ages They are kept until the month of
May, when at that time each year they
are sold as State property. It is generally
the railroad companies who buy them, and
use them as rags for cleaning and rubbing
machinery. There are also closets filed
with nothing but hats, where they are
thrown helter-skelter, and form one Of the
strangest collection of head.dresses it is
possible to imagine.
IN THE LITTLE COURT
At the back, which green shutters prevent
being seen from the bridge, are two sheds
where the collins are placed. On one side
are the coffins destined for the unknown,
composed simply of four planks of pine
feebly nailed together; on the other side
are the collins paid for by relatives, but
which are far more solid. Whether recog-
nized or not, the bodies are nevertheless
very decently and properly buried. In this
court one still sees the hand-b barrow on
which the bodies are placed which are to
be photographed by some very simple
machine the corpses are brought exactly
opposite the object-glass. Two or three
times week clothing eaten by worms, and
rags which can be put to no use-not even
washed and boiled-are burned in the
court. To the right is situated the stable
where the wagon is sheltered which car
ries the bodies to their last resting place.
A considerable excitement has been
lately created in Paris over the expected
arrival of some redskins-some ten men
and women of the Sioux tribe. 1t seems
they are those who have but lately SUBJ
mitted to the Government, and it is not
many months since this same Chief at
tackled the railroad trains. 1t is reported
here that it is with the spoils of his re-
peated robberies eIRdienRe that he is
making such an extensive trip in company
with his friends and family. Rumor also
talks OF his daughter as another, not fair,
but dusky, Pocahontas. As they are the
first North American Indians who have
ever come to France, they will be looked
upon with considerable curiosity, for in no
country in the world, America not ac-
eepted, is Fenimore Cooper so extensively
read and so well appreciated as here.
VAL.