The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-11

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n Six hundred men who had remained up
su n.-ht witnessed the execution. Our
Esje the jail there were 1900 men, who
Xvta q beam. tried to batter down the
a cate of the jail yard and could only be
mad To desist by provincial police firing
their reyolvers into the air.
The behavior of the crowd inside was
n such hat one of the priests, Rev Father
*Meoche. mad to reprove them from he
& scafqld.
History of the Crime.
4 Mrs Cordelia Poirier and Samuel Pars<
How her reputed lover, were hanged cor
h rhe murder of Isadore Poirier, the woman s
Husband. on Sunday Nov q, 1897.
The crime was committed in the Poirier's
&home jim St Canute, quebec. Mrs Poir-
&ier who was % years of age, though not
Especially attractive in appearance, pos
sessad more than the ordinary accomplish
Nments of the women in her situation in
Lite She had fair education, and was
h the orsanist of the Roman Catholic Church
Ia ST Jerome, where ParslOw sang in
I The choir.
Porter who was an industrious work
mat built mis- wife a neat little cottage
Nbome and maintained her in comfort On
Hin fata. Sunday PORTER attended church
al St Jerome in the morning, as did mis-
n wif and ParsloW. In the afternoon the
Husband did not attend vespers, but stay
n ed at home drinking while Mrs. PORTER
went to church and played the organ for
+ the services. Sine returned home, where
she found Poirier and Parslow PORTER
sbeins under the influence of drink and
&aseep. She asked Parslow to hitch np
Nthe horse, that she might drive TO her
Fathers, four miles distant, and Parslow
Hdid SO. Then he unhitched the horse
'hgain. after which he and Mrs. Poirier
Entered the house. and it was at this time
fthat The crime was committed.
Par~Iow Cut His Throat.
Parslow took butcher knife and slash
- the sleeping husband across the throat.
3Poirier awoke and sought to defend him
self, when desperate life and death strug-
NJ ensued, resulting in the death of Poir-
per. Parslow hitched up the horse again.
Sbnd Mrs Poirier drove away 10 her faith
Ssrs after which Parslow returned to the
Blouse divested himself of his blood
stained shirt which he burned in the
ktove donned one of his victims shirts,
Siocked the house, put the key in his pock-
r. and went to the house of his brother
.George Parslow.
On Monday morning Mrs. PORTER, on
Per way home from her fathers stopped
n George Parslow's house and had a few
minutes conversation with Sam Parslow,
'atler which she continued on her way
|home ward. Upon arriving she found the
|blnds down and the doors locked. She
went TO a neighbors and told them she
couid not get in. From there she went to
|ine church at St Jerome and plaved the
organ az a wedding. AT the conclusion Of
me ceremony she returned, and at her
suggestion a neighbor forced an entrance
20 the house through a window It was
neh 1hat The Crime was discovered. Mrs
IoiHer, instead of going TO her fathers
louse remained four days, or until Thurs
lay afternoon, with a neighbor named
DouNrelte, at whose place she was ar
Testei
Confessed Their Guilt.
Both prisoners confessed their guilt, each
seeking TO put the blame upon the other.
At the first trial the defense objected 10
lae admissions of confessions made before
the coroner, and because the trial Judge
accepted these as evidence the Queens
Lencn quashed the conviction Of the pris-
onefS- and the Supreme Court Upheld the
oeels'on At the second trial recently. Mrs.
oli'er admitted in the presence of a de-
UciNe and coroner in the hall of the
'ouIt mouse at ST. Scholastique, that she
'"iV ti4dl IOlIlef mad been Killed by
'am Farslow, stating that Parslow had
loa her that he would do anything to get
nv OF her husband. She said that when she
mel l'aislow al his brothers. place the
, morning afier the murder, Parslow told
her that it was all over.
subsequently to the first trial she admit
YEA 20 the sheriff that she was present in
we room when Parslow killed her hus-
,dN1- ParsioW's admissions We're to the eff
'sc' nat the woman had been urging him
ever since New Years before the murder
TO h-l her husband, and that while PORTER
va" e.[ asleep nc had cut his throat with a
Far. low said that after the first blow
i've ''I not remember what took place. he
.aus" ne was laboring under great excite
u7u| tie maintained that the woman ex
-'''S'u an influence over him which he
was powerfess to resist.
WIS. Porter had no children of her own
S1' SAe adopted a child who was in the
"hen the murder was committed.
The Third Woman Hanged.
Mrs Poirier was the third woman ont
"a ,, me eleven condemned since confeder-
,UoH TO receive capital punishment NOT
ing the case of Mrs. Sternaman who
20 acquitted at her second trial. The two.
y. omen who have suffered the death nen-
,e1 Snlce confederation are Phoebe Camp-
IN VINO was hanged at London in 1872
ma. lung her husbands throat with a
,sr..' ana elizabeth Workman. who was
,gr az Sarnia year later for beating
' husband to death u,iti . - -,