Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-21
The Pela.ers.
CONTINUATION OF THE CAsE-EvIDEHcE OF NINE.
BERNAYS.

The Re1e8eE0s
CONTINUATION OF THE cAsE-EvIDEHcE OF NINE.
BERNAYS.
The great murder case still proceeds In Brus-
sells. Armand and Leon Peltzer, charged with
the assassination OF NJ. Bernays are daily calling
witnesses for their defense; but hitherto the
CHIEF interest of the proceedings has centered in
the evidence of Nine. Bernays, widow OF the
victim. She is thirty-One years old, Of interest
ing appearance, with golden hair The traces
of great mental suffering were visible on her
cOuntenance. and she wore deep mourning. Ex-
amined by the president, she stated that she
was married in 1870, and that dissensions with
her husband commenced short time be-
fore the birth of their son. She remembered
only to pardon. She had only respect
for the memory Of her husband and mourned
over his fearful end but. as she had sworn to
tell the truth. she would do so. Her husband
had done her great wrongs. insulted and ill
treated her. and from 1876 life in common be-
came impossible. She never thought of a di-
vOrce. Her husband even struck her in cOnse-
quence of his mad passion for servant of hers.
the girl Sestrade. (who has been heard as a wit
ness. who was of remarkable beauty, but per-
fecty honorable. resisting all the solicitations of
her husband. The witness then returned to her
family. Her uncle. Victor Pecher. brought
about an agreement according to which they
lived quite separately i'm the same house. At
the end Of the year the agreement was aban-
dOned.
RELATIONS WITH ARMAND.
Armand Peltzer was very intimate with her
husband and had brought about the rapproche
ment. In September, 1851, new dissensions
broke out on account Of two servants she then
had-Julie RasKart and Amele Pister (who
have been heard as witnesses). Her father
Of hivnrpa off fho COLI, MI
by the girl Pfister. On the 18th of September
she asked her husband to send the girl away.
She told Amelie Pfister that she had overheard
the infamous calumnies which she had told the
other servants. She then gave her 3OOf-hel
wages till the end Of February finally a
slap in the face saying. THAT is due to infa-
nous creatures of your sort" Her husband
afterward saw Pister in his office, gave
her 500f. or 1OOOf bought her a trav.
cling bag. and had her accompanied by
| his clerk as far as Brussels Her father found
the injury done to her by her husbands listen.
| ing to the calumnies of a servant of such
gravity as to necesSitate divorce for deter
mined cause Belgian law term.) Later hel
family would have been satisfied with divorce
| simply by mutual consent. but she was not in
clined to either project NJ de Longe. friend
of the Pecher family and president of the
Belgian court OF cessation. had cOunselIed the
divorce by mutual consent. and had on the
III.
declared himself opposed to the divorce because
it would be injurious to his position at the bar
He told her that his means did not allow him to
provide for two households On this occasion
he had good impulse. He said to her. Julia
pardon me; | have made YOU suffer much but
hencefOrth you will not have to complain OF
me. What wenid become of our son if you left
the house,
THEN 1 AM AFRAID"
She had never asked her husband to renew
his relations with Armand Petzer. but NJ dc
Longe had done so. Her father had prevented
her from going to the wedding of her sster-in-
law Cthe sister of Bernays) because of the insult
done to her 10y her husband refusing to follow
the advice of NJ. de Longe. On the 10Th of Jan.
uary, after her return from Brussels, she re-
celved in the evening a visit from Armand
PeltZer. She talked to him about that ter.
rible day (she had been to the house No. 15e
Rue de Ia Lei and had seen there the body
OF her husband) She was in fearful state
of excitement and agitation. She asked him
whether he did not know Henry Vaughan II
was possible that in the state in which she was
she asked him to swear by the life of his daugh-
ter that he did not know him. but his answers
treasured her. He said, with much sincerity.
"But this is sheer folly-nay, downright
madness" NJ DelvauX, to whom she comm,l-
nlcated her conversation with Armand Peltzer
was as easy about the matter as she was after
he had had a conversation with him. When NJ.
Deivaux told her OF PeltZers arrest she was
completely upset. After recovering herself she
exclaimed, THAT man has deceived us. Hehas
told us that he did not know that his brother
Leonwas in Europe" One day NJ DeyauX asked
her whether she had guilty relations with
Armand Peltzer. AS she protested against this
imputatiOn. NJ DelvauX said, 'Then | am
afraid.' Il Also am teariully afraid.'' she re-
piled. The conversation with NJ. Delvaux took
place on the day when the judicial peruuisition
was made at Armand PcltZers house The eX-
animation being terminated the court allowed
Nine. Bernays to withdraw on condition that
she remained at Brussels at the disposal of the
court. The impression produced by her evil
dence Was very favorable