The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-10-05

night robes. lay NJ. Pedrix. white. rig
id and-desd! His breast WAS cover.
Ell with blnol. which had burst in .
torrent from knife wound directly
over the heart. bath had been IN
stanteOus the assS.ssin's aim cure and
fatal.
They had scarcely soale this horri
ble discovery when q woman rapidly
came uU the stairs and entered the
front or sitting room. Andre recog-
nized her. II Was MHlame PesiIIx.
She looked brigh:. joyous and happy.
Seeing the officers aud Andre, hei -x-
preston changed To one Of aPlaleni
establishment then . deadly paIor
overspread her face.
What does this mean. Where Is
my husband. Surely nothing has
happened She glanced trembliugly
at each of the three silent men.
Andre Was astOnished ut what he
supposed to he the audacity Of this
woman, whom he Vas ready "a de-
ncunce As the murleress of her hus-
band.
She is like all the Cor-icans. They
are serpenis they are all deceit.
She hesitated moment; then ran
past the officials into the bed room.
Due glimpse At the horrible vision OF
the dead was enough. She uttered .
wild shrek Of terror. and staggering
forward tell heavily across the body Of
her husband, mOtiOnless. insensible.
An hour after Madame Pedrix recOv-
cred. In spite Of her prayers. lament
atioDs and agony she was conveyed to
the project, and under the statement
Of Andre Gelon WAS sent to prisO0
CHANGED WITH THE MURDER az HER
HUSBAND.
She was five days after arraiyned
TOR trial. Her story. told amid sohs
and tears, that although three days
bef,re the murder she Rad qusrreled
with her husband. and had left him in
anger. she loved him dearly. aud had
ouiy gone to ChalOns on \ visit. Until
she saw him lying there. dead. she had
unt seen him, nor had she entered
their rooms. She would sooner have
killed herself than him.
Andre Geloh again told his story,
adding that he could not Ike mistaken
! in the voice Of the woman he heard
through the pipe. Il Was that Of
Madame Pe,lrix. Others, including
two servants. testified that they had
overheard nj various times madame in
paroxysn's Of jealous rage threaten
her husbands lie.
Felice. a carrying baker came for
ward and stated that one time, fort
night h.fore the murder. while wait
ing at the door to gain admission with
his bill. he hal heard madame excisim
fiercely to her husband
i will stab You, you false wretch.
you AMI your woman.
The baker, frightened, crept away
and did not go back that day.
She WAS. despite all the efforts Of NJ.
Jules Savaire. her counsel, al
Judged guilty. She MAS remanded for
sentence for three DAYS, at the earnest
intercession 0f NJ. Savaire.
On the evening preceding the day
upon which Madame Pedrix was to
hear her doom, at 10 o'clock woman
attempted to
DROWN HERSELF
bv leaping into the Seine near the
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citizen named Carlelle saw her leap
and gave The alarm. 4 sergeant de
villa heard him and ran TO the rescue.
A hoatman in the river, however.
seeing her ss che came up to the sur
face. caught her, dragged her into his
boat and brought her into the quay,
where. dripping and iDsansible. she
was given into the care oi that off,
cial, who rs speedily a. possible con.
viewed her to the Office Of the commits.
saire of his district.
Restored 10 consciousness. and ques-
toned by the commissaire, she mt last
in despair, aud with q CLEAN Of insan.
ity flashing from her luxurious dark
eyes, told her pi,ifuI story. She was
young. aud despite the evident agony
Of mind which distorted her features,
was beautiful.
She said she WAS the daughter Of
an artizan, NJ. ShOubcrt, in the Rue
ST. Antoine. Two years before she
met man to whom in little while
she became attached. He reciproca-
tel her love; they we're intimate; q
liaison ensued She In few months
became enceinte, aG,i her father, dis.
covering her situation sought out her
lover. and by his threats Of exposure,
him To marry her. They
We're married in the church Of the
4 child was burn. THIS |
man who mari csi her lost all interest
in her. an.i visited her but rarely. |
Finally she resolved Ia Ii-cover the 1
cause. Sine suspected tl,st he had /
Iorn,cl an intimacy with another
She finally traced him to his !
|'d:inss. BY inquiry she made the
fearful discovery that her husband, ,
the father of her child, WAS also the /
husband Of another woman, and that
10 this one he had been married four
wears. Crazei ani ma,lLened by this
revelation Of his perfidy. she sought
or nothing save revenge. Cunning
Is her rage. she betrayed her secret t.
10 one. she watched and waited. Ooe
lay she went 10 Chslo,,s aud saw the
'ther vile but did no, disturb her. 1
she had intended to kill her. She re-
nrned. her mind still bron.ing n,sn
Ter wrongs; upon bitter a"d !
A DREADrC REEVE GE. q
Once ia Paris, she directed her
teps to the loigings where her hue
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