St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-10
She Gets in Her Deadly Work
With Poison and a
Razor.
Her Mind Forever Dapkened
by a Lovers Indif-
ference.
An Amiable Woman Who De-
veloped Into a Perfect
Hyena.
Paris Special.

week, He was Albert Dubon, wealthy
gentleman of no occupation, who for
some weeks past has occupied the fiat
with his beautiful young wife. bride
of some three months. Beside the bed
stood his man servant Claude and his
wlfe's maid, who had just made the
horrible discovery that Dubon was
dead, and that his wife was miss
ing. In less than a quarter of
an hour several police functionaries
were upon the scene. The unfortunate
gentleman had apparently been taking
his afternoon nap upon the divan when
the assassin had taken a razor and at
one stroke almost severed the head
from the body. Who was the assassin?
No stranger had entered the apartment.
OF that Claude, the servant, was pos
tive. as he answered all calls at the
door. which could not he opened from
the outside. A few minutes previous to
the time when the deed must have
been committed Nine. Dubon was in
the fiat; now she has disappeared. 1t
was soon ascertained that Dubon's
throat had been cut by one of his own
razors, the case of which lay open upon
a table in the dining room, while the
weapon which had done the CHASTITY
deed lay upon the floor beside the divan
on which the body reclined. Clearly
the first thing TO be done was to find
Mime. Dubon, who was the only person
thai could probably furnish clew to
the mystery. The two servants were,
as matter of course, detained by the
police and an order for the arrest of
Nine. DubOn was issued.
SHE WAS BROUGHT IN
within an hour, having been found atthe
railway station on the point of boarding
a train for Nancy, for which point she
had purchased ticket. Nine. Dubon,
who is young and most beautiful
woman, with voice as silvery as bell.
was dressed in the height of fashion and
did not appear at all annoyed by the
proceedings when she was taken into
custody. At the police station she was
questioned concerning the time she had
IDENTIFY thinking that they might have a
wary person to deal with. This sus-
picion was Immediately dispelled by
Nine. Dubon saying In clear, sibilant
tones: I'M. Dubon Is dead. 1t was l
who killed him."
When questioned further as to her
motive for the crime, Nine. Dubon said:
"He looked SO tempting as he lay there,
with his head thrown back on the
lounge, and the razors were so sharp
he had only sharpened them this MORN
ing.'' 1t soon became evident to the
police that their beautiful prisoner. was
dangerous maniac, or else that she
was pretending to be such. Nine.
DubOn was throughout the examination
entirely free from emotion, and seemed
20 ho NJ he vii
pliShed her purpose so thoroughly.
Once or twice she said as if speaking to
herself: "You know it would never
have done to have failed. He would
had an ugly scar there that would have
distigured him for life, and Albert was
so handsome" Nine. Dubo n is between
a brunette and blonde. She looks not
more than tWenty-one years old and her
complexion is peach-like and
HER TEETH LIKE PEARLS.
Her eyes are steel blue and the eye
brows splendidly arched. She is in
cliried to be tall, but her figure is per
lection itself. She has face that be-
tokens unusual intelligence, and one
would think that she must have
a perfect disposition. The maid
"a very intelligent Swiss girl
says that she was engaged by Nine.
Dubon in Switzerland some three
months ago. The couple were then on
their wedding tour and Nine. DubOn
had parted with her former maid for
some trifling reason. From what she
has learned since she has been in the
service of the Dubons. the maid says she
judges that the couple were pasSlOnately
attached to one another, and there can
be no possible reason other than insan-
ity for committing the crime. She says
that from what she has overheard
madame is somewhat of mystery.
She thinks that Nj. Dubon met her acct
dentally in Paris, fell in love with her
and married her, in ignorance of her
previous connections. She had often
heard M. Dubon ask his wife to try and
remember something sof her past life,
and Nine. Dubon always replied: BE
yond the fact that came from Russia
| can tell you nothing. 1t is all too
horrible. Do not ask ME, for the memory
Of it will drive me there again." She
thinks that NJ. Duhon felt pretty we'll
satisfied that his wife had been mixed
up in some nihiIistic venture, which
had ended with terrible results, and
that she was sent out of the country by
her friends to
SAVE HER FROM SIBERIA.
tional facts have been gathered by the
police, which obtained by an early call
at headquarters this morning. The
whole history Of the mysterious Nine.
Dubon has been unearthed almost inn
mediately, as it could have been done in
no other country but Russia, owing to
the excellence of the police arrange
ments there. One of the portraits of
Nine. DubOn was forwarded to st.
Petersburg. and with this and what
ever suggestions were forthcoming, the
mystery was soon cleared up. The
maiden name of Nine. Dubon was Or
loff-Vera Orloff. Her father is rich
banker in st. Petersburg, and had no
idea that his daughter had left Russia.
The Supposition that she might have
been connected with the nihiIists is in
correct, although the career of the
young girl has been highly romantic, in.
deed, painfully so. When only sixteen
years of age Vera fell madly in love
with her cousin, handsome officer in
the Cars Household cavalry. No Or
binary love was that of Vera Orloff.
She loved him SO passionately that
when, after few months of courtship,
his love grew cold and he sought
the society of others, Vera shut herself
up alone. and entirely renowned male
society, nnQlng S0iace IN writing
poetry and religious studies. After
few months the beautiful. blooming
girl was changed into a delicate, wan
and ghostlike creature: mere Specter
OF her former self. Then
A THRILLING THING HAPPENED.
Since the treachery of her cousin had
manifested Itself, Vera had resolutely
refused to share the society of her
brothers or her father, so intenselY~had
she come to dislike the sex of Which
her deceiver was member. One day,
after partaking Of dinner, the Or
loft family, with the exception
of Mile Orloff, were taken
violently sick. A physician was
summoned and twas found that poison
had been administered to them in their
food. Fortunately the poison was one
for which antidotes could be admins
tered, and the lives of all the family
were saved. Suspicion, of course, rest
ed upon the cook. who. however, stoutly
maintained her innocence. Some time
afterward one of the servants found in