The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-27
CASE IN MONTREAL.
rs1DoRE PoIBRIER BUrOHBRED M
mrs UIFE AND HER PARAMOUR.
Arrested, she Conresses ana Tries e Lay
All the Binme or Parslew, Then Ho Goa
re..e. and says the Woman Urged Him
a., and ueIped Him In the Actual Kilitng.

Arrcsted. she Confesses ana Tries e Lay
an the u,nme on Parslow, Then ne Coa-
r,.,e. and says the Woman Urged Ertm
a, nud Helped Him In the Actual killing.
MONTREAL. Que, Nov. 28.-Isidore Poierier, q
respectable French Canadian carpenter, living
Mt 81. Canut, n small place near this city, was
found dead In his bed on Sunday morning with
his throat cut from car to ear and q bloody
knife lying beside him. 1t was at first supposed
that he had committed suicide, but evidence OF
n soufle which we're found subsequently clearly
pointed to murder. Suspicion rested upon Sam
parslbw, a resident Of tho place, who 1t was
known had long been intimate with Mrs.
PoicrIer. Detective McCaskill, who secured tho
confession in the Nulty murder case. was put on
the case, and, as a result OF his Investigations,
he ordered tho arrest Of both Parslow and
Mrs. Poierier. When she saw that she
was in danger she confessed and laid
tho whole blame on tho man. Parslow,
she said, had frequently urged her to kill her
husband, and about q month ago had gone to
Montreal and purchased q revolver, but she OBJ
jectcd to tho use of the weapon, as it would
mako too much noise. About n week ago Pars-
low took the butcher knife with which the muir
der was committed and %sharpened 1t. She ad-
vised her lover. she said. not to murder her hus-
band, as he would DO caught. On the day of the
HluTutT SDt 1 Univ hhu thou obhib hou
passed between her and Parslow on the subject,
she felt convinced that the murder was about
to bo committed. On the way back from her
fathers tho next morning. she met her lover.
His words were:
II have done it,
This was the first she knew that her husband
had been murdered. On returning to her home
Mrs. poierier tried the front door in order to
carry out her scheme OF pretended Ignorance,
and then went to church.
Parslow was very angry when he heard that
the woman had laid the whole blame upon him,
and he told u different story. Mrs. Poiorier, he
said. was Away after him to kill her husband.
He had put her off. but shc said her husband
was getting unbearablc. and 1t had to be done.
Sunday where her husband was lying on the bed
asleep. The knife was upon the bureau. The
man lay across the bed. in the position in
which he was afterward found. He. was
asleep and the entrance of the two had not
disturbed him. Farslow sat down upon the bed
woman took up a position on the other side OF
the slumberinR man.
xiii himl kill him!' said the woman, accord
ing to Parslow, under her breath. He then went
quickly over, got the knife and struck Poierier
in the throat. This. the murderer says, was all
he remembers. for " everything after that was
all blood. blood"
The first stroke OF the knife woke the man up.
and then ParsIow struck at him again with the
weapon. Poierier grabbed the knife by the
blade and gained his feet. Then came stroke
after stroke and finally no was overcome and
his throat severed. He was then placed in
the position in which he had been lying origi-
tenance to the suicide theory, and the murder
ers left. This is the story of Parslow; and as
between the woman's story and his, 1t Ia prob
ably the true one.