The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-06-06 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PBIIIO2IIOL.  ird  WIN  modern  French  .novel,.  and  OLIO  Weiu for attempting to \ place at the Oran w which the aneged unlike thous of a  exciting  interest. Madame "Weise, whose maiden _ ii Jeanne Danildff,t is of Maslen extraction. Her motheb, who was a well-known Nihilist, died when her daughter was only seven years of age, and from this moment the girl, who was virtually abandoned by her father, led a roaming existence. Jeanne Daniloff at length found a husband in the person of M. Weiss, a French officer, who resigned his position and took his wife away from Nice to Algeria. The union appeared to be a happy one, but - -it was soon interrupted by the arrival pf a young engineer named Rogues, who sucdoefled id loading sway Madams Weiss from the path of oonjugal fidelity. The husband's suspicions were aroused, however, and M. Roque* went of to Madrid. It is at this point that the poisoningbegins. A. M. de Quarry, the secretary of the district of Ain-Fez:a, being under the impression that M. Weiss was being slowly poisoned by his wife in order to be able to join her lover, purloined • letter from the local post office. The contents of this proved that his suspicions were well-founded, and M. de Quarry handed the letter to the Public Prosecutor. Madame Weiss was forthwith arrested, and endeavoured to commit suicide. Rogues, who was apprehended by the Spanish police, blew Vs brains out in prison. He had forwarded suppilat of the poison of Madame Weiss, with instructions how to administer it. Madame Weiss declared that she was much under the influence of Pogue' that she could nap resist it.' The trial ended on Friday, the oourt being dsnsely crowded. After the ores& for the prosecution, Maitre (3t. Elefilita briefly eloquently defended the prlsoser, who, how. , was found guilty, without extenuating circumstances, and sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. On hearing the sentence Madame Weiss showed signs of hysterical agitation. She waved her hand to the Public Prliutor, and was led by the gendarmes out of the , . Shortly after being ntencej, however, the unhappy lady managed to kill herself by taking poison. She had strychnine sewn up in the hem of a pocket handkerchief. On leaving the dock she was stripped by the hosiers, her long hair ' being combed out lest any deadly drug should be concealed in it. A pocket handkerchief seems to have passed unnoticed. The strychnine pill was in the corner of this. How she got it does rot appear, but it wee .probably furnished her by a 1 friendly person. The prisoner asked for a glass of water, which she gulped down feverishly, and then exclaimed: "Ah I they have deceived me. They have given me quinine instead of strychnine." She threw herself on a bed. Half an hour after she was attacked with violent convulsions and tetanus, but did not cry out or groan. A doctor was fetched, and forced an emetic down her throat. She said "You labour in vain. The poison is now in the nervous system. In justice to my children, I have ended my miserable spoiled Mt. It would 44761 have been ruinous to for people to say their mother was a hard labour sentence in • penitenary.'-' ' a had also spoken to the same effect to her counsel, telling him she would, if , &IL other means foiled, beat her brains out. Apsoltust, the walls of her oell. The doctor's Bermes were of no avail. After twenty minutes of terrible agony the guilty woman passed away. M. Weiss on being informed of the terrible event merely shrugged his shoulders and expressed regret that the sot of self-destruction was not committed before the trial. He also complained of the course of action of M. de Sarre, and M. de Guerry who instead of taking judicial steps, might have saved the family public disgrace by showing him the much talked-of letter. He would then have forseAl, hidme. Weiss to sign a document accepting F-' divorce, and the matter might have ended there. M. Weiss has leis Oran. He was asked whether he had any directions to give consenting his wte's remains, to which he replied that living or dead the woman Jeanne Daniluff could be no concern of his. He took a letter which hie wife had wri''.-2 to him an hour before her death, but he declined to accept the charge of another addressed "To my son when he is 15 years of age," adding that the boy ought never to know of his mother's crime, and that it would be more fitting to bury the letter with the writer. All kinds of rumours are cireulating, one of these being that Roque', the lever and .accom. ' plice of Mdme. Weiss, bribed the Spanish police to let him go, and that he is now in Brasil. It is also said that he managed to pass off as his town oorpse ' that of a man who died in , a Spanish hospital, and No got a death certificate.  PO,NIA IIDD• tklipp bI wl* Pitinga NATION POIRONINti TRIAL IN OnNocni Was