Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-22

Paris, June 19.-One of the most
famous woman criminals of the nine
teenth century has been released on
ticket-of-leave from the women's peni-
Tertiary of ClermOnt after twenty
three years detention. The shock
ing crime in which beautiful Gabrielle
Fenayron was an accessory is now
well-nigh forgotten. Only this is re-
membered: that Gabrielle, though she
may have sinned, was a victim too:
taken out of a Eoarding-schoOl to be
made to marry against her will, at the
age of 10, coarse, brutal drunken
husband. From all accounts, her
behavior in prison has been without
reproach. 1ne former beauty, now a
woman of so, will not hear an unkind
word on her return to Paris, where
she will begin life over again.
Gabrielle was the daughter of a
Paris chemist named GiBon. On his
death, the widow, appalled, at the
prospect of bankruptcy and destitu-
ton, proposed to her late husbands
assistant to marry her daughter.
Marin FeIayron, as he was called, a
country rustic with no manners, had
just come in for a little money. He
was proud of marrying a Paris girl
and a beauty, a person, moreover,
very much his social superior, and the
girl, having consented with many
tears-for the sake of giving her
mother a home-was led straight from
her convent school to the altar.
Fenayron agreed TO let his mother
in-law live with him, but after some
months, finding her in his way, he
turned her out of the house. The
marriage was an unhappy one. The
husband spent his nights at the bars,
the wife, indolent and devoid of will,
was fond of expensive toilets and so
ciety. Two children were born. In
1875, after five years marriage,
Fenayron took an assistant, Louis
ALBERT, young man of 20. Though
although plain looking, he was a
scented and pomaded dandy.
Fenayron became a confirmed
drunkard, neglected his wife. lost his
money on race courses, and the
inevitable catastrophe happened. The
liaison of Gabrielel and her husbands
assistant was the talk of the district.
Fenayron was certainly aware of it.
but he closed his eyes, the infatuated
ALBERT having agreed TO forego his
salary. He chose to open his eyes on
the day he discovered that ALBERT not
only had evicted him from his posi-
ton as husband Che would not have
minded that, but was preparing to
evict him, too, from the shop.
Fenayron owed his other-in-law, with
whom he had quarreled, a sum of
money he was unable to pay, and the
assistant had persuaded Nine. Gibon
to demand immediate payment of the
debt. Fenayron gave his assistant a
thrashing and discharged him. A few
months later ALBERT had taken a
chemists store of his own. Fenayron,
convicted of adulterating his
chemicals, was sent to prison for
three months. Gabrielle had taken
another lover. ALBERT had forgotten
her, as appears from the following
advertisement he inserted in the
papers.
.CHEMIST-THIRTY; DISPOSED TO
marry lady % to 20, with fortune of
her. own. Write to initials L. B. c.,
Madeleine.
The reason that prompted
Fenayron's tardy vengeance on
ALBERT is a mystery. Anyhow, he pre-
pared it for two months. He told his
wife she must help him to kill ALBERT.
She refused. He threatened to shoot
her, their two children and to commit
suicide. Then she yielded.
Fenayron hired a house at Chatou,
near Paris, under the assumed name
of Hess. 1t was in a lonely situation
on the riverside. Here, he had de-
termined, the deed was to be done.
His original idea was to gouge
Aubert's eyes. His next plan was to
put him to death by slow torture But
at length he elected a more ex-
peditiOus death. He purchased a dag
ger, a hammer, a spade and a pickax
and several yards on leaden pipe.
Gabrielle, at her husbands dicta-
ton, wrote ALBERT a loving letter,
giving him an appointment at the
lonely Chatou house. He sent a curt
refusal. At length, after a third and
more tender appeal, he came.
Fenayron, who was at the st. Lazare
terminus, and took the same train.
purchased return tickets for himself
and wife and a single ticket for
ALBERT.
Scarcely had ALBERT entered the
drawing-room when Fenayron sprang
from behind and dealt him a blow on
the head with a hammer The two
men struggled in the dark. Fenayron,
who was getting the worst, called his
wife to liClt a candle. She Obeyed,