St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20
SPOILED HER CARPETS.
The Blood of the Man She Had De-

The Blood of the Man She Had De-
ceived.
Paris Cor. Of New York Mercury.
stake him away! Don't you see that
his blood is spelling my carpets''
"Have pity OIL me, Julie! am dying
kiss me-my wife!''
"Your wifel'' and hooking peal of
laughter, silyery and ripping as ayoung
girls, followed, lending to the beauti-
full woman who uttered it an uncanny,
repulsiye aspect for the moment.
The scene was splendid parlor OF
private apartment in the Rue MaSher-
beles. Round the man who lay on the
floor stepped in his own life blood
small group Of persons were gathered.
There was a doctor, two gendarmes, land
in the background fashiOnably attired
man and woman, evidently persons of
distinction and wealth. One of the gen.
darmes was busy, with the doctors help,
in taking the deposition of the dying
man. 1t was, briefly, that he was Capt.
D'Auville, a cavalry officer, only TWEEN
ty-four years of age. He had met the
lady who owned the fiat, Mile. Juliette
Presslitz, some six months before, and
had become infatuated with her. They
had been married, as he thought, but it
turned out tn at he had been tricked by
a sham ceremony. Juliette had finally
thrown him off and taken another suit
or or husband, the gentleman present.
He had brooded over his trouble, and
determined to end his life. For that
purpose he had forced his way into the
presence of Mile. PreSslitZ and commit
ted suicide before her eyes. He COM
pletely exonerated every one else from
blame, and said that he died from sheer
despair. D'Auville was taken to the
hospital, and succumbed to his injuries
before he reached it. Mile. Presslitz
and her escort, accompanied by one of
the geDdarmeS, were driven in cab to
the central police station, where their
statements with reference to themselves
and the affair were taken down, and
they were afterwards informed that they
were at liberty to depart. Mile. Press
litz did not return to her handsome
apartment after the ceremony was over,
preferrlng to go to hotel. From
member of the police force an interest
ing, and even picturesque, account of
the career Of Mile. Presslitz was OBJ
tanned.
sShe is a beautiful Demon" said the
informant, "and has ruined more young
men than perhaps any young women in
Paris. Her heart is an illusion, al
though she always manages to inspire
the most intense passion in her admir-
ers. She is well known to the police.
They would, in fact, be glad of an OPP
portunlty to arrest and punish her. but
She always carefully eludes the grasp
of the law. 1t is now about six
years since Julie came to Paris. She
hailed from Vienna, and was one of the
how
Some say that her beauty has in
creased rather than not, but the
freshness of it has partly disap-
peared; the eyes are harder. less
melting; the curves of the lips
are more cynical. In figure Julie
Presslitz is of medium height. Her eyes
are gray, very large; her hair brown
and her figure-Well, it is only in the
East that such figures are usually seen
supple as an athletes, with magni-
ficent natural pose and the most be-
Witching contours. She had not been
in Paris year before her first collision
with the police occurred. A young
man who had been one of her victims
had her arrested for obtaining large
sums of money from him fraudulently.
He had wasted fortune of some 100000
francs on Julie in about six months and
then she had discarded him. 1t was
found that the man had willingly parted
with his possessions and that the law
could not touch the woman for taking
the money, so she was discharged.
Since that time she has had
career. She never has more than
one admirer at time, and he is al
ways young, and, needless to say,
wealthy. She does not select her
friends from mercenary motives alone,
but falls in love wish them, according
to her own account. Her affections are,
however, of the most transtory kind,
and seldom outlive few weeks or