The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18
A MYSTERIOUS OGRESS.
Strange Doinss of Strange Woman In
Paris.

Paris.
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We have seen an ogress a live ogress, in
Paris this week, but who she is, whence she
came, what year born, her fathers name
her mothers birth, her kindred, nobody. moi
even the police, rcan find out. And yet she
has been known as q paintress copying pic
lures in the Louvre; she has been known as
contributor to Paris newspapers; still who
is she? gets no answer, not even from those
heirs of Argus eyes and Briareus' hands
the police. She pretends she issues from an
ancient and noble Norman family, De Ora
vas. No such family is known in Normandy.
When scarce fifteen her family forced her to
marry a septuagenarian, Baron de Liver
Mere, who lived in his own mansion, Rue
de Berry, but who soon after marriage beg
CARED himself to crafty actresses caprices
No Baron de Liverniere ever lived in Rue de
Berry. Nobody in Paris ever heard the
name of one of the persons she mentions as
habitual visitors OF her husbands house.
But the police found out this about her: In
1869 she had attracted the attention of the
police by the rapidity with which she
changed her home and by the number of
dupes she made She wrung money from
one by palming herself off as a wealthy
Norman-landed proprietress: from another
as rich farmers wife from CONFRONT;
from another as cousin of the Queen of
Spain; from another still as
having had her chateau, near
Dreux, burned during the German
War; from the clerk of the Justice of the
Peace, whom she made believe she was a
land owner of great wealth in temporary
straits of fortune, and who would lavishly
reward anybody that befriended her in
hours of distress. Becoming convinced she
was a swindler, this clerk had her arrested,
tried, convicted and sentenced so a years
imprisonment in the Woman's Penitentiary
While undergoing this sentence she made
in Jail acquaintance with woman named
Bouton, a photographer, undergoing pun
ishment for the sale of obscene photographs.
She, with her barney, so fascinated this wo-
man that the latter offered her bed and
board at the expiration of her sentence. She
repaid this hospitality by alluring away
Nine, Bouton's son, a lad of eighteen,
with whom she really became deeply
enamored. She is ''seven-and-thirty," If
she be believed, but as the police say
that on her arrest in 1875 she was then
'seven-and-thirty," and looked every hour
of fifty-fve, she can scarcely be younger
now. She tried her best TO pet this lad to
marry, and to decide him to this grave step
she daily increased the size of her waist I'M
til one day she went to the Lying-in Hos
pital. got acquainted with a maiden who was
about TO become a mother, and persuaded
her to give her the newborn bastard daz-
cling her by promises that the child should
be enormously rich. She laid thick coat
ing of actress whiting on her face to make
her look very pale. Staggering she entered
an omnibus, where she half tainted, and
upon recovery interested un vieille demoi-
selle Americana who had come to Paris to
visit the exhibition, and TO whom she told
she had just had 1.-The little
stranger in an apothecary's shop.
The stupid vieillie demoiselle Ameri-
caine was fool enough to insist upon the
young mothers quitting the omnibus, and
taking q cab, in which she Ola vieille demoi
selle Americaine) saw her home. Young
Bouton was delighted to be father, though
only 49, and adored his child; unfortu-
nately the baby died fortnight afterward.
She determined to get another. She went to
the Founding Hospital, lowered around il
until she met q maiden who wanted to be
rad of her child, and said TO her: 81 am
Nine. ST. Marc, a midwife in Vincennes. /
want a child for noble, rich lady, who has
lust given birth TO still-bOrn son. She is
still asleep with chloroform. Confide your
child to me. 1t will be placed in the cradle,
and will be happy and rich, and you will
have all you want" The maiden consented
What became of this child? The police
have been unable to find out. They believe
the child, boy, was carried to England and
there sold to a childless mother. The traffic
carried on in children for this purpose and
nefarious objects is incredibly active. re-
Gently told of the rich apothecary who gave
$50, 900 for child. The French law offers
an irresistible premium to secure at least
one child TO each marriage. instance one
case because it is famous. Mons. de Cen
Dude stood so high in favor during the Res
toration that he was able to marry his son to
whom he pleased. He chose an heiress of
Bordeaux, worth 5000, 900. The revolution
of 1880 ruined him. Soon after his daugh-
ter-in-law died childless. All her estate
reverted to her family, and her hus-
band lived miserably on $500, clerks
salary in Joint Stock Company's office
To return to the ogress She not only stole
children, but pillaged the furnished lodg-
ings she tenanted. One of the pictures
(can't you imagine the daubs to be found
on the walls of furnished lodgings in Belle
vile? p she vainly tried TO sell to the Louvre
as "a Poussin given by the artist TO her
neutrality-suspicious. Marquis
de Gravas" She was more fortunate in En-
gland, where she found buyer for her
daub. She had managed TO wriggle into
good society across the channel. The police
seized in her possession a good many inti-
mate letters from Lady Paget She speaks
English, German and Italian fuently. The
police suspect that she is q governess who
mas Srauualiy shPPeu oowh W CIiine. IL
may be mentioned as evidence of the YER
satility and fertility of the resources of this
woman that, to theastonishment of the police
and Prison authorities, she appeared in the
dock, after an imprisonment OF two years,
perfumed, painted, hair dyed black, the turn
keys themselves unable to guess whence she
drew accessories of the dressing table This
makeup led to scene worth telling.
Judge-Do you recognize the accused? Wit
ness-Why, yes, to be sure; but it seems TO
me that when saw her before the Exsmin-
ing Magistrate she was very gray, while now
she has not a gray hair in her head. Prose
cutting Attorney (smilingl-She has felt her
self unworthy to wear gray hair after all the
misdeeds of which she is guilty. She has
been sentenced to the Penitentiary for six
years and to be watched by the police for
ten years after her discharge from Prison.
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