The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-31
ONE POUND NOTES.
A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL.
End by Suicide of the Life of a Bad but Beau
tiful Woman.
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ORAN, May 3J.-Jeanne Weiss was the
daughter of Nine. Danioff, the Russian Eihi-
list. who died when Jeanne was an infant.
She was left H. the csue Of q wealthy grand
mother. who was confirmed gambler.
Jeanne's childhood and girlhood was spent
amidst the strangest surroundings chiefly mt
Monaco. IL is not strange that an edrcatlon
50 peculiar should produce peculiar fruits.
Had Jeanne been an ordinary child she might
have been simply depraved, but inheriting from
her mother intellect OF an unusual scope and
keennees, she was ultimately converted into
a cool calculating hend. This untOward de
yelopment was the result of years of training
and social surroundings which were alto
cesher bad The unbridled passions OF
Jeanne and the absence of restraining in
1luences and good examples lad the worst
efectlon her character. Gifted with beauty
and extraordinary powers Of fascination,
Jeanne assembled a court Of devoted admirers,
who attracted also by her erandmothers
wealth, stroYe for her hand.
AMBITIOUS FOR SOCIAL STATION.
She proposed that her husband by wealth
station and intellect should raise her to the
pedestal Of social distinction which she
crayed She was too clever not 10 compre-
hend the society she met at Monaco and other
doubtful resorts and feel that 1t was not such
she was not good herself she understood the
power of goodness in the social machine
As rule. Jeanne cared no more for suitOrs
than for the dirt beneath her feet When at
sixteen the suicide of an Italian admirer, an
army officer, who shot himself because she
would not elope with him, caused feeling OF
indifference
FINDS HER HEART AT LAST.
This unfortunate woman was at last to
learn that she had heart. In the year follow
ING. 1884. she met Colonel Weiss, a French
soldier. He became SO infatuated with her that
he resigned his commission 70 marry her.
He came 10 Algiers. taking position IN the
Algerian civil service. The first five years Of
his married life passed peacefully and hap
PLY.
ATTEMPTS TO POISON HER HUSBAND.
The defects of Madame Weiss character
were irradicable, however, and came TO the
surface Persuaded that she had extracted all
the pleasure Obtainsble from a yirtuOus life.
she Welded readily TO the pleadings Of
Rouques, q civil engineer, and becom-
ing weary of her legal bonds, she
wrote her lover that she had made study
of posons, and asking him TO Obtain Tor her
Fowlers solution Of arsenic. ROuques sup
piled it. and on Jeapne's return she gave him
reports of the progress OF the case. She had
undertaken TO kill her husband by slow
poisoning. One of these notes falling into
the hands Of Vicomte Guerry, friend and
colleague of Weiss, once her lover, caused
her arrest and trial.
REMARKABLY CRIMINAL
Developments during the judicial lnvestiga-
ton stamped Jeanne as one OF the most re-
markable criminals of modern times. Not
only had she plotted her husbands gradual
murder. but recorded in carefully written
diary how she prepared the poison. and read
10 the court the full details of the crime,
anaiyzing her motives. and depicting
the different phases OF feeling ex-
perienced before, during and after admins
tering the poison. Fortunately the exposure
OF this cold-blooded criminal was Just III
time. Although Weiss was near dying. his
health being terribly shattered. he recovered,
and appeared in court. The counsel OF Nine
Weiss tried 10 make il appear that she was a
person OF weak intellect and had been hypnO-
tied by her lover, who on hearing OF the
trouble, committed suicide Neither the
judges or Jury appeared TO place any faith in
this hypothesis.
Weiss solemnly declared on the witness
stand that whatever be the result OF the trial
he never wished 10 see again the faca Of the
woman he once idolized. The Jury yes
terday brought in verdict of guilty OF at
tempted murder. The Judge promptly sen,
fenced the woman TO twenty years penal
servitude and ten years exile from France.
CONVICT AND EXILE.
Thus Jeanne was compelled toacknowledge;
despite being reared in luxury. loneliness and
intellectual attainments, the horrible end OF
career that once promised so well. .Attwenty-
four she was at once a convict and an e1ile;
her name being banded about the capitals OF
Europe as a person of unchaste life and
would-be murderess.
sUIorDERs DEATH.
Strange that woman 50 callous as she had
proved herself hesitated 10 face future 40
forbidding and an infamy so complete. When
tho taller brought bar breakfast this mornias