The Osceola times., 1884-10-04

consisting of visitors and servants. 'Ah,
said he with feeling of intense pleas
ure perhaps it is the marquis, ny
neighbor, come to congratulate Us and
be present at the wedding.
But presently he overheard some
strange words and hastencd to the door
"what is the maiter?" he asked stern.
ly.
Surprise, pain, and CONSERVATION were
in the face of those whom he addressed
Tell me i say" Pierre exclaimed
"what does this mean?"
At length friend, bolder than the rest,
said:
why, Pierre, don't you know We
supposed it was your doing"
''What was my doing?" he asked in ut
Ter amazement.
"Your intended bride and her mother
have departed" said friend.
Pierre was thunderstruck. What did
it mean? He asked questions of this
one and that All he could learn was
that the bride had been seen to ctne
down stairs dressed and glance in at the
parlor door when Pierre was speaking
with her mother. Then she went under
the stairs near the door TO the private
room. After Pierre quilted the old lady
the bride came from under the stairs and
entering the carriage in which they had
come, drove of.
THE MONEY DISAPPEARS.
Pierre went to his private room and
opened the bureau. His roll of l5,0OC
francs was gone
He put OH calm face, told his friends
he supposed his intended bride had
changed her mind, and insisted that they
should eat and drink. Then he dismiss
ed them.
The next day Mile. soulage was ARE 1t.
ed on q charge of having stolen l5,OOC
francs from Pierre Jurisey. The woman
calmly denied the accusation When
asked by the magistrate why she lef.
Pierre's house so suddenly, she replied:
IL had sufficient reason"
"What WAS it?'
II refuse at present to disclose it,"
appearances are against you, MAIDEN
oiselle."
81 know it; but am content to wait
She was held for robbery, but admit
ted to bail This was on June "a. 1888.
The next morning she was reen to take
the train for keims On the afternoon
of June 30 she was seen to alight from
the cars at st. Hilaire, short distance
from Squippes. A man named Pasquier,
AZ he stood at his gate. saw woman
pass up the road to Pierre's dwelling at
about eight o'clock the same evening.
Hslf an hour later he saw the woman
return an 70 toward st. Hilaire.
THE END OF PIERRE.
Next morning, july LIST, Pierre Jurisey
was seated in chair in his private room
dead. He had been shot through the
heart. The night before all his servants
had been out at a neighboring merry
making, given by his cousin, Charles
Poinsot, and when they returned they
supposed that Pierre was in bed.
Pasquier told what he had seen the
night before, and suspicion fell upon
Mile. Soulage, who was arrested. When
examined, she admitted that she was at
Pierre's house on the evening of June
30th. Then she told this story:
''On the morning fixed for the wed.
ding | went to the apartments prepared
for me. a woman came and asked TO
see me alone. thought she was a do.
nestle, and l assented. She was about
my size, with dark hair and eyes, and a
scar on her chin. She told me that she
Was Pierre Jurisey's wife, and showed
me the papers confirming her statement.
She had married him, she said, at Brest
and they had kept a wine shop in Paris
for four years. in the Rue Vanneau. |
was satisfied of the truth of her story,
and determined to quit the place at once
l did 30. Then / was arrested.
81 saw my difficulty, and, as soon as
possible. went to Paris and got proof OF
the truth of the woman's statement ]
determined on my way back. to call on
Pierre and tell him of my discovery to
his face. When / reached his house all
was silent, and l could not gain admit
lance. Then i returned to st. Hilaire
and thence home"
This story bore the evidence of truth
on the face of it. Inquiry soon proved
that Pierre Jurisey and wife did keep d
wiaeshop in Paris, as stated, and that
Pierre sold it out secretly and deserted
his companion just at the time when he
appeared as the claimant of his father,
estate.
ON ANOTHER TRACK.
This put the police on another track
and they were now looking for Madame
Jurisey. Those who had been in attend
ance at Pierres house on the day ap
pointed for the wedding. remembered
seeing woman such as Mile. Soulagt
described; and supposed she was one o
the attendants. This same woman wa.
traced to Paris from the neighborhoot
of Suippes after the killing of Pierre. IL
the great city she was lost; but only fol
time. The police came upon her un
expectedly in an out-of.the-way suburb
and tracked her TO house on smal
street running from the Rue des Platri
eres, outside the oriifications. On bein,
arrested she was subjected to the usua
examination. She said she had nothin,
to conceal On finding that her husband
had deserted her she waited patientl,
for some months expecting his return
after that she used all her efforts to fine
out whittier he had gone. She had ne
idea where he had oeen brought up, a,
lac had never informed her. She wen
to Brest where he had married her, anc
made inquiries. There she learned thai
the police authorities had had inquire,
some time previous for Pierre Jurisey
and these she found came from Reims.