El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-06
WITHOUT A PARALLEL
KILLED ONE MAN TO TERRIFY
ANOTHER.
Fishhooks Sent by Mail-Womap Shoots
Rock Salt Into Lover and Another
Pofsons Husband with Eye-Wasli-
Strange French Crimes.

Parisians are RECALLING themselves
with the details of a series of strange
crimes unparalleled in their Geyiii5h
ingenuity, their romantic elements ard
all their circumstances. The daily
newspapers are filed with facts that
surpass all the imaginings OF Eugene
sue Strange to say, actors and ac-
tresses from the stage are largely con-
cerned in these dramas of real life
One actress has sent another box OF
medicine waters filed with fish hooks.
Another actress, wife of a prominent
theatrical manager, is on trial for at
tempting to poison her husband with
the atropine that she also used for her
own eyes. Robbers who threatened
the life of rich man have taken the
lie of another man merely to demon
strate to the object of their threats
that they were in earnest. Tilted
girl has taken revenge on her lover Dy
shooting rock salt into him, which is
one of the most painful infections that
the human mind conld devise.
Mile. Regina Martial is the woman
accused of sending concealed fish
books to her rival, Eugene Dareste.
Mile. Martial was until recently an &C
tress at the Ambigu theater, which is
the great Partisan home of melOdrama.
There she became familiar with every
form OF villainy and crime known to
the melodramatic author, and he has
attained a high development in France.
Apparently mademoiselle set her mind
to plan a more hideOuS and fiendlsh
form of murder than any that had
entered the head of an Ambigu author.
Mile. Dareste was also an actress at
the Ambigu theater. Probably Ameri-
cans will be pleased to call it the Am
biguouS theater. She is a handsome
woman of the rich dark opulent south
ern type. There was only one shadow
in her life until she received the waf-
ers. 1t was that she was growing fat.
On Feb. % she received through the
mails small package. When she
opened it she found it contained waf-
ers of "cachets," as they are called in
French pharmacies. They were about
an inch in diameter, the same size as
a wellknown American brand Of head
ache waters. The box was labeled:
"a sure cure for obesity. Take six
daily between meals" Inside the box
was a slip of thin paper, on which was
written: DO try them. 1 have used
them myself ana Know IHey Will w gOu
good. From friend" Mile. Dareste
was so much preoccupied by her in
creasing obesity that she had no dis
position to be suspicious and was will
ing to try almost any remedy. She
Immediately took two of the wafers
and before night time she had swal-
lowed eight-two more than the direc-
ton required. Early the next day she
was taken ill with eXcruciating pains
in her stomach and various parts of
her body. She told the doctor about
the pills and, of course, he promptly ex-
amined them. To his horror he found
that each one contained a good-siZed
steel fish hook with barbed point. Mile.
Dareste was removed to the hospital,
where she now lies in a critical state,
suffering intensely. 1t is uncertain
whether she will die or whether she
will be condemned to years of painful
invalidism. If she had only one fish
hook in her it might be removed, but
it would be a terrible operation to
search for eight of them throughout
her system. The doctors agree that a
more cruel scheme of revenge could not
have been carried out. At the same
time they can not help pointing out
that the waters have actually accom-