Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-02-14
The DR.. POPE MUIR
DER In DETROIT.
HORRIBLE DETAILS OF A
THIRD CONFESSION OF THE
MURDERER.
The Police Believe the Man is
Telling the Truth at Last.

DhihOll; EtD. O.-- lllldIn DruS'
seau has told what the police believe
to be the true story of the murder OF
DIR. Horace L. Pope. 1t was as dew
ilish and brutal a deed as the way
ward mind Of a demon ever con-
ceived, planned as it was by a woman
devoid alike of pity and conscience.
and executed by a miserable dupe
who could not Withstand the infiu-
ence of her will.
Brusseau sent for Detectives Sadler
and Lombard late yesterday after.
noon, and almost begged of them to
listen to his story, and allow him to
remove some of the terrible burden
that weighed upon his mind. Then
he began to relate the history of his
career from the time he met Mrs. Pope
until the murder was committed. A
year a ago he was in the barber bust,
ness, but it did not pay and Mrs.
Pope offered him $15 a week to act
as her nurse. He received very little
money for his work, and the little he
did receive Mrs. Pope usually bor-
rowed back. At the time of the mur.
der she owed him $1,000, of which
$500 was borrowed money he had OBJ
tained from his father in Canada.
AS Brusseau continued in the en-
ploy of Mrs. Pope she began to exer-
else strange influence over him. He
seemed unable to resist her, and be-
came her slave in everything. At last
he began to fear the woman, but ap-
did not possess strength
to free himself from her control. AT
her bidding he paid the assessments
on DR.. Pope's life insurance. and bv
her command he shadowed the
doomed man after the policies had
been transferred.
Finally, little by little, Mrs. Pope
began to confide to him scheme to
put her husband out of the way, in
order that she might realize on the
life insurance. She showed him how
he might murder Pope and escape all
suspicion. In case he was suspected
she promised to protect him. Night
after night the harpy of a wife filed
herself full of laudanum and whisky,
and night after night she hammered
this idea into the brain of her unfor-
tunate dupe. He shrank from the
bloody deed, but the woman insisted
and finally there came time when
he could no longer resist her will.
On the night of the murder thev
sat up until 8 3'o'clock in the morning
the crime. Brusseau again
wished to postpone the murder, but
Mrs. Pope would not have it that
way. Her husband was sleeping in
jhe kitchen, and the scheme of the
woman was to call him in and have
hin murdered while he sat by her bed
'ide. A hatchet lay on the sewing
and, seizing it, Brusseau
aid behind the door.
DR.. Pope, aroused from his cold
Ind filthy bed on the floor of the
heard his wife's call and
came into the room. Unconscious of
5he fact that he had already entered
nto the valley of the shadow of
leath, hedoomed man sat in a chair
oy the bedside of his fiendish wife,
while she talked to him of the suffer
ngs her illness had caused her.
While he was listening, half asleep,
20 his wife's complaints, the murderer
,rouched behind the door, hatchet in
land, waiting for the signal to strike
;he deadly blow, In moment it
same. DR.. Pope's eyes closed and
lis head sank to his breast. Instant
y Mrs. Pope half raised herself in
bed, her eyes glittering like the scales
If dragon. She waved her massive
arm, and Brusseau, springing for
ward, buried the hatchet to the helve
n the skull of his victim. Again the
arm was raised; the hatchet was
1rawn from itsresting place of blood
and brain, and again sent crushing
into the skull. How many times this
awful pantomime was repeated
Brusseau cannot remember, but
when the bloody work was com
pleted, he was limp and helpless.
Mrs. Pope then arose, and bending
The body of her husband forward,
pulled the revolver from the pocket
of the dead mans trousers. The
corpse was Strengthened again, and,
firing a bullet into the frame of the
door, Mrs. Pope, threw the revolver
at her husbands feet.
The murderer and his mistress
then sat down upon the bed and dis
cussed the theory of self-defense.
Half an hour later, little Bernice, who
slept in cot on the other side of the
room, was awakened, and her moth
er told her the story she was to tell.
About 6 o'clock Brusseau left the
house to telephone for a doctor for
Mrs. Pope, who had a fainting spell
from the excessive use of laudanum,
and to give himself up to the police.
Brusseau seemed to feel relieved af-
ter relating his story. ''I wanted to
tell it all the time" said he, ''for ]
knew l could never raise my head to
God and deny the murder"
The police believe the man is tell
ing the truth. His story corroborates
the theories they have held, and all
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