The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-02
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her WITH means 500 z
,tss GHausees Intercepted den.ed
alll;snoRledge Of the poisoning, ali
thoaghsit waa9speedily discovered that
he had been intimately connected:
with the Marchioness. One witness.
maid, deposed that on one OCCASION
she had found him concealed IN tkes
Marchioness' room; another had
heard the Marchioness praise the
valet for certain services that lie bad
rendered her. Torture was applied
In vain; but, upon threat of its re-
nevsl, La ChauBsee confessed' that
he had poisoned the two DtAubray.
brothers with poison gwen him by
M, st. Grofk VINO had told him that
the Mafchioness knew nothing Of his
design. Nevertheless he had acted
/ as gobetweent for her and the dead
man and Affirmed his belief that the
Marchioness had been cognizant Of
the entire murder conspiracy.
Let us turh our e6asld tioR foF
the.mo4ent.. 10: Reich de PerIla
whose name was Stouhd I. In the strong
( boS: III taehisad III tii ~: was
a nan 81 I6wiy orr III who liz Elser,
| to:besome yreceiver.ge general EoE
French clergy at a. Salary OF 900
year! Z he had worked his way up,
from the bottom Of ths ladder by his
astuteness, and his rise had Been
partly due to the most opportune and
mysterious death Of several Of his
] superiors. II was; proved that he and
j st. Croix had come tfom the same
part of France. that they had been In
Ultimately acquainted and that consid-
cradle, business relationsiihad existed
between them. PenuaWler's compile
ity in the murders was strongly sus'
pected. Butt he was too rich to be
5coBvcted5' as Count De- Gramm6nt
put It. Oneiof the famous letters Of
Nine. de sevigne contains an. al
.ldsIon to- this Gaze. everyone, the
whole. world. isaworking to- save PEN
lfnSaler.p siies#ritess Hehas'nothing
| to fear but the indiscretions of La
tBrlnvillIeFst" 20
: The penniless. Warehouses; and Ii
Chaussee could not purchase the in
demnity which PcnnautIer was FORUM
| ate enough to obtain! The valet was
found guilty Of the murders and
broken upon the wheel AS for the
Warehouses, everything seemed to
point to her guilt, Shewas proved to
have uttered foolish phrases since
tho time when the box was opened.
| Even then the undisguised distress
which size displayed was strongly and
uniayorably commented upon. She
Ehad Exclaimed angrify that a plot was
n progress to ruin her, had hinted
that the police who had custody OF
the box were not incorruptible. and
that the discriminating evidence might
be destroyed. The confession of the
| valet that he believed her to be an
accessory in the crimes, and. her own
flight, sufficod to convict her. Her
husband, having wasted his inherit
ance had come down to his last SOU
and was in hiding from his creditors!
He could offer her no assistance nor
obtain protection from the courtiers
OF Louis. A decree Of death by de-
capltation was pronounced against
her
In those days extradltion was a
thing unknown. But the arm OF
French Justice was a long one. and 1t
was determined that she should be
brought, baoksto tho jurisdiction of
Louis by stratagem, Even in those
days the countrymeR Of Vidocq, who
rose 10 fame long afterward, had be.
gun to produce renowned polioe ~spisss
and a certain Francois Degrals was
intrusted with the task Of Turing the
NIarchi6ness back. to French SOIL or,
failing that, Of, kidnapping her. He
was a man OF polished manners, ,inS
sinuating, totally without -soruples" of
any kind. II he failed in his task
none other could succeed.
Degrais put on the habilimentsa Of
an able and went to Llege. where he
at once succeeded in obtaining admis-
sion to the convent in which the
| Marchioness was immured. At once
he began to seeb her friendship.
Tho Warehouses; deprived OF the gay
society of'the court to which she had
been so long accustomed. could i'll en-
duro the enforced discipline Of con-
vent life. Their friendship progressed
rapidly. and the able proved that De.
bnesgT the monastic severity Of his
exterior hes could conceal love for
1sthespleasures of female mpanion-
shin One day he proposed that they
should drive into the country and
| take breakfast at a rustic inn. The
4, Mstchiohcss gladly accepted and in.
yitatlon, but when they arrived at
their destination a carriage came
bowling along the road and stopped,
and a number OF police officers de-
u scented and placed the Marchioness
i under arrest. Quite unnoyed, Degrais
.I}then declared to her AIs identity and
'Iitheruse which he had adopted. Tho
\ icarriage was driven at full speed
across the frontier, and the arm Of
French justice had proved itself
atrong enough to seize It's, victim.