Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-26
THE MoNAsTER1o CASE.
Something That a NOCeList HAY Yet UtsIise
as the Basis of q Book.

Something That u NOCeLiSt Hay Yet UttIise
as the Basis of q Book.
A Paris letter says: The Monasterio case
surpasses anything imagined by lola IN
writing his unsavory novels. Such a col
lection of sharpers and uninteresting and
indeed foul dupes was never seen before.
Nine. Monasterio, who sits on the priso-
ner's bench in the sixth, or correctional
chamber, is a lady of Spanish ancestry,
born in Chill. She is distantly related to
NJ. de Lesseps, and is really very like him,
Notwithstanding the bloating and degrad-
ing effects of habitual intoxication. Her
husband was man OF very large fortune.
He left his widow in opulent clrcum-
stances, and splendid heritage to his
daughter and hers. The heiress was natu-
rally weak-minded, and has since become
almost idiotic. She is now forty years
old. Her mother was galante, and
gave birth in the third year OF her
widowhood TO son, who goes by the
name of Carlos Lait. This individual Is
a good for nothing spendthrift. He is his
mothers idol. To insure him fortune
she went deeply into bourse and other
speculations, and completely ruined her
self. When all her substance was wasted
ter, and when that was insufficient at
tempted to make her out a lunatic, and so
obtain control of her fortune. AS pre-
liminary she locked her up in the Charen-
ton madhouse, but took her out again when
she found that we're the girl proved mad
she would be handed over to the guardian
ship of her fathers relatives. The moth
er was surrounded by swindlers and sharks.
cd AO hou of ~
for her. She lived in the most sordid man
ner III the Avenue Frochot, getting drunk
every evening and feeding herself and her
daughter on the West offal of the green
grocers' and the butchers shops.
Mile. Monasterio reioices in the pretty
name OF Fidelia. It appears that she is
addicted to numerous wees. 4 German
waiting-maid, either to obtain the stew
Hrdshjp Of her large income, or to hand
her over for q sum of money to her
fathers relations in Chill, coaxed her away
from the maternal domicile to q lodging
C her own. There she pandered to her
vile iusts. The German took Mile. Mon
asterio 10 orgies in the Quarter Breda, and
initiated her into all the mysteries of that
ultra-fast section Of the town. She thus
afforded the mother and Carlos q pretext
for selling upon the heiress and taking
her by force to private lunatic asylum.
The mad doctors OF whom certificates
were asked appeared in court. Some of
them were as disreputable sharpers as any
of the Spectators who plundered Nine.
Monasterio. 1t was these shady practi-
TONERS who certified to lunacy. But I
should add that one of the most eminent
specialists in France, DR.. Legrande du
Saulle, has testified that Nine. Monasterio
admitted to him her vices IN a matter of
course way, and was, if not a lunatic, an
idiot As the German woman notified the
Gillian relatives of the young lady how she
had been incarcerated, steps were taken by
them to withdraw her from the madhouse
and transport her to South America. But
her mother and Carlos, getting wind of
the plan, transferred her to England. She
is now living at Stone, in Kent, and lodges
with the family of Mr.. Hughes. What
renders this trial so interesting is that it
lays bare the workings of the lunacy law
of 1888. No rich and eccentric French
man or woman can be sure of remaining
free while this law is unrepealed.