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 THE THREE CRIMES 
 
 RflWDON, 8T.LIB0IRE, 
 ST. CMUT. 
 
 COMPLETE HISTORY OF W. MURDERS. HORRIBLE DETAILS. 
 
 r»IJBi:vIO VXJ^JDXOATIOIV 
 
 By JEAN BADREUX. 
 
 MONTREAL. 
 
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 LEPROHON & LEPROHON.t'*' ^M'XT Y) 
 
 1629 Notre Dame Street, X^.<4 to f J 
 
 d^n;uulnnnnn.^lJ^^lnni^nJumnJ^f^nnJu^Jlflnaaa^J irummutruinnnnnjinji 
 
 «NT«8.D according to Art of Congrt-s, in the yonr 1898, by Jkan IUdrkux, in the Ofllce ot th. 
 ;.ibr«ri«n of Congrois, at Washington, B.C. ' 
 
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 Naf/ona/ 
 
 0' Canada '^'^ H^'*"ofhdque „«,, 
 
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 THE CRIME AT KAWDON. 
 
 on account oV the";- povo^v^ *^f;^P"o.-ftu-mor, unfortunate, uot o„fy 
 This f-.miKr ,.P • ^'. ,^ '^'''" '"^ 'icco«n<. oftheii- iirnomnce 
 
 descSr S;r'Lth "^SHe^'jSeaJj'^bo'''^^^ ^f ^'^^ ^"'^ 
 Thomas the el,lo8 si n H 1 v. ? ' ^"''" ''^ ^'-i^adian parents ; 
 
 zabeth,Ann^Itofa^Patn>I^;'^^'• '^^^ '^ y^'"''" = «^^^^' Kli^ 
 monster. The otL^ Lmhl 'of H ''^' ''■?"'"'! "^ ^^'^ blood-thir«ty 
 Judith and Cathne;.^b:^^^^^^ 
 
 absence ou the fatal dlx^ of ?h7bSci^ for !?'<f ^^ "'"' *" .'^'•''^" 
 
 "^ sHiKociy, loi, wilh tiio exception of 
 
e^tir^t^n^lnTrt^'ti'LT'^^^^ '' ^'^ away with £he 
 
 had chosen foi hrmate ' P'"'" ^^^ himself and the woman he 
 
 But, let U9 not anticipate. 
 
 and moth'l^'l'Zlry'^-Si^^^ '' ^" ''^?"-*- Thee ather 
 
 minds of their chTlden-^conleTul^^ ''"'"'* *? ^"'"^**« ^^e 
 
 possible for human beh/gs to be ""''" ^' '^'''''''"' ^' '* ^ 
 
 had «'o7n^?"cS:;les?:nd1nTffe'^^'^ '^""^^'^' -^ «f Tom, 
 pleasures it cilild give ^"'^^ff^^-^"*' seeing in life only th^ 
 
 neveSlsfsSfflcYent'to a„nf ^ t'\ ^^^^^' ^^^^^^^^ coarse, wa« 
 tag tte vM„"''^|,t Z^^\lT ''!"' \P«'r"'<' "king wa. play. 
 
 Sir- ^'°=" '--" ns'^^t^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 the. jLS^nr,;:,: :f„z4r'bi:; '""-■ ^ "™"' »- - 
 
 the curate^ho'wal m'' ft'Tr "'?\'-'"''l:'" «""''<'") ■■"Pl""«l 
 received the vlk of fL„ ™"""°« '" ""« that one One morning I 
 Mich.:?Nl;rl''; ,3-« "l^^^^ lemeanor. They wf.i 
 newly-landed immio-iants TkI, „ ^i J , -^ impressed me as 
 
 invited them toSSkfast ^i.«{ l««?™P''«fa«d their Easter duty ; I 
 behaved much kVlndianB " ^'''"^ '''"'P^'^' ^^"^ ^^-^^^-^ 
 
 tithing^idthJt't wouM t:*''*' T *^"* ^« ^*d ^^^^'^ »P h« • 
 
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 possible. His house was full of children, all broujrht up In the 
 most shameful ignorance. It was in reality even worse than I 
 thought. "' 
 
 .< <Mr Nulty ' said I to him, ' are you going to bring me your 
 daughter Elizabeth ? ./ o o a j 
 
 t^ ''X^^, P^"'" ^^'""^ "^'"^ "°* k""'^ -^ f''0™ I^- She was going on 
 16 and had not made her first communion ! The mother was there 
 hesitating whether she would or not let her daughter come to me 
 for throe or four months. Tom was there, silent. He ai)poured 
 surprised at— I don't know what. 
 
 " Elizabeth came. 
 
 " I give up any attempt at describing her mode of life. It was 
 contrary to all recognized customs. I gave her a room in the 
 seen- i 8t(.ry. The following morning she came down, her dress 
 over her night shPrt, which was visible nearly an inch. 
 
 "^ I gave her a first lesson in catechism. 
 
 " 'Elizabeth, who made the heavens and the earth ? ' 
 
 II She answered : ' Who made the heavens and the earth I ' 
 
 *!. W* r2\ *"®P°*^ ^y question. Here is an easier one. Is 
 
 there a God ? ' 
 
 " ' Is there a God,' she repeated. 
 
 " 'Once more, do not repeat what I ask you. Come, is there 
 one God or several Gods ? ' 
 
 " ' There are several Gods, sir I' 
 
 " I had all the information I wanted. I was obliged to give 
 er as many as seven or eight lessons in the day on one subject 
 betore I could make her grasp and retain it. 
 
 . u 'i ^.^^'^r*^^ ^^y^ '^^ter her arrival, Elizabeth found in her room a 
 Delt left there accidentally by the housekeeper ; she took it and 
 iwgan to cut it with her scissors, and, after fixing it up to her taste, 
 she put It on and came down to the kitchen, proud of her handi- 
 work. The housekeeper, dumbfounded, recognized her belt, no 
 longer useful. This is to show how little notion PJlizabeth had of 
 the value of property. 
 
 "For many days Elizabeth went to the looking-glass twenty 
 or thirty times a day to admire herself. She did not seem to get 
 toed of It It would seem as if she never had seen a looking-i?lass 
 She would also open all the drawers, take every article out one by 
 one, look at them with curiosity, and afterward^ replace them with 
 a sigh. ' 
 
 "All of a sudden she would start, go to the end of the hall 
 and sing two hours at a time without getting tired: singing as 
 well as dancing were her strong points and sole talents. 
 
 T«- J'^^,^ ^^'"^'^ P'*^'^®'^ *'"'■ examination for her first communion 
 Nothwithstanding all the pains taken with her at the presbytery 
 she never showed any gratitude. Hor's wiis a silent nature, insen- 
 sible to all except singing and dancing— more like an animal than a 
 sensible being. 
 
4 
 
 PinaUviTV ^''^'^*' fifteen twonf P^"^"'"nion. T/?. r "''' ^^^^'^^ 
 
 told fiS/^"'^^ --« '^-•ti?i;;'^r:en7.^^r«"- " ^°"'«- 
 
 "W'j^uUvh.H '^ ^""d »"« Annie, TV W ? r ^„ 
 
 njanner 'S«l "^ • "^ asked mv m. ^"^ 
 
 "Tk ^' '« 't true thntT/ '"esfien^er in fF,„ 
 
 cond„«S tl'n""""]!"- •'■"to- of Ton,.. , 
 
 estiy fo, ,^ ^.^^.^I not oven p,,,,^^ tW T'^^"^ t^»« 
 
 
 
made u great noi^e 
 
 "j;. '''" "o Annie. 
 '' '^V? I was 
 
 W.T'^ serious 
 
 \^P could do to 
 f'['"ff, i»e could 
 ^ch an Idea iuto 
 
 ''e/ookodatme 
 ^-«, nij /louse- 
 ««• AJthoturi, 
 ■'ft woarinifa 
 ft at the time 
 "e vi/Jage of 
 "•e in her iffh 
 oth'H. • 
 
 ; sbe did not 
 
 ? 
 
 ■e would 
 
 yoQ 
 
 d this year 
 't she drew' 
 3mony the 
 ■'es in the 
 
 tiie most 
 le Icept up 
 'fy lik-ejy, 
 'e a epeci. 
 
 >) Judith, 
 
 After what pi-ocodos, is it too much to say that Tom was horn 
 under an unluclcy star, that lio takes aCtcr his family ? itocoivin-r no 
 more education than his sisters, his intolligonjo romainod bof,).rXred 
 tor years, and his moral sense was never as roauod as it should havu 
 boon. 
 
 He was even worse otf than his sistei-s, for his Hrst studios 
 look place under the pulernal rooi; and, to Jud-o hv his sisters, wo-o 
 tar from boinsr brilhant. Add to the lack ot education a iiio f-ir 
 from the world in a wilderness where the same ol-l rocics the s'lme 
 trees the same tuml)le-down shanty always stared bim in tho'fuce 
 and tor almost his only foo.l, tho same otornal buckwlieaL cakes at 
 all meals and tell me what were tho pi-ospects of this younir man 
 during all the 3'ears of his youth. J h ^' 
 
 Let us not exaggerate, but neither let ua shut our oyos to facts 
 ])atent to all. '' 
 
 .Uen act more often under the force of habit than the impulse 
 oftheniomont, and the importance that they attach to an act de- 
 pends altogether on the light in which thoy see it 
 
 How feeble ib this light, when it comes from" a scarcely visible 
 spark ! Ihe will follows the intellect. The evil that one imbibes 
 gives coloi- to the evil that exists around u.. Whatever we consider 
 evil depends a great deal upon transmitted ideas, preconceived iudiro' 
 monts, deep reasoning, b^rom what precedes, could any one sot any 
 value on the thoughts of a being raised amidst tho surroundings of 
 the iN ulty family ? ° 
 
 If ignoi-ance has a tendency to destroy the mind, passion in 
 many cases weakens it. * > i " 
 
 A violent love takes possession of Tom's being. In the space 
 of htteen days he makes, on foot, eight trips often miles each Xo 
 one to stop lum ; no one to open his eyes, not a friend to put him 
 on his guard. The obstacles ho meets only increase his passion. 
 A devihsh idea has flashed in his mind. He has seen evil— how uo 
 to what point ? That is tho secret of tho Almighty ' 
 
 Tom is tasting guilt. Tho tree f . in his way, it is inclined. 
 But If it loans on (he wrong side; w ore does tho impulse como 
 trom ; whence are the winds that push it into tho abyss V 
 
 Circumstances tell. 
 
 Were wo right in saying that there were mitigating circum 
 tancos, to say no more ? ts & "* 
 
 To appreciate Tom's crime, one must look at it from a special 
 point of view, outside of the ordinary ideas of civilization 
 
 From the summit of these considerations the criminal appears 
 in adilforent light; the veil falls from our eyes and the boin./wno 
 a little while ago appeared to us as a monster now seems sur- 
 rounded by a hazy cloud, which causes us to pause. While not 
 willing to absolve entirely, we feel too weak to lift a hand 
 against him, who may bo more sinned against than sinnin.' We 
 recognize in the man a degenerate being, but are foiced"to say 
 I he stem whence ho sprung was already dooayod." 
 
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 Tom's net is that of a Hnvajjo, the nntui-al consequence of a 
 Bavaj^e-liko education. A Havatro in, no to wpoak, but half a man. 
 Ho annwers to God for hiH aetioriM, but as ho is ni;t a reisponsiblo 
 beinfr, (lod makes duo allownnco for the lacking qualities. 
 
 Tho way Tom acts sinco ho foil into the handK of justice has 
 Bhakon all our ideas of the juoprielies of life. Jf wo (study his 
 previous life we realize that ho has not changed. As he acted tlien, 
 BO he acts now, like a being deficient in natural understanding. 
 Tom did not undeistand what ho does not know yet. 
 
 In this manner we are able to trot u better understanding of 
 tho tragedy. The scene changes, the actors come forward, and tho 
 leading man appears in his true light. 
 
 The victims remain, but the scandal is diminished, the 
 responsibilitos ai-e less, * * * and as for justice * * * 
 
 We now understand the intellectual value of the actors in the 
 drama. 
 
 From what has been said we can understand without any diffi- 
 culty that all the memb.i-s composing this family group wore com- 
 pletely devoid of moral sense, and that the least jar was liable to 
 determine in them the brutal explosion of an unconscious violence. 
 
 In spite of his lack of education Tom was a part of society, 
 and received therefrom the benefits it bestows on all its members. 
 Amidst these benefits, love must be taken into account, accom- 
 panied by all its seductions, but at tho same time by all its charges. 
 These last, for the man in his normal state, for the conscientious 
 and intelligent worker, are an additional incentive to love, love 
 consecrated by marriage, The more the object of this love has 
 need of protection, the more isolated it is, the more the man needs 
 energy and self-sacrificing spirit to insure his mate's comfort. The 
 simplest countryman knows that. Thanks to the religious educa- 
 tion they all receive from their earliest youth they are not ignorant 
 of the fact that life is a perpetual sacrifice — that marriage is a 
 solemn act which imposes upon the new head of family grave duties, 
 which in their turn are compensated by the satisfaction given by 
 their accomplishment. This being the case, these people pre- 
 pare themselves for the solemn act by working, saving, render- 
 ing their youth in some sort holy. It is because these precepts 
 are faithfully carried out in our country places that our brave 
 and loyal countrymen are happy, notwithstanding the rude labor 
 that the tilling of the soil imposes upon them. 
 
 Tom Nulty had no idea of tho duties of man. 
 
 Brought up like an animal, accustomed to do as he pleased, 
 abandoned to his brutal instincts, he did not know the simple duties 
 of a citizen even by name. Endowed with a robust constitution, 
 the prey of all the animal instincts, fatally compelled to live the 
 idle life of the poor, he grow like a young cub accustomed to being 
 daily fed and allowed full liberty to go and come. 
 
 And the unfortunate young u»a ■ lived on, careless, never asking 
 himself whether life would always be as lenient for him. 
 
, *» 
 
 One day, however, it dawned upon him that his fickleness 
 should cetwo, to make place for u more .1 arable sontimont. lie waid 
 to him^^olf that, built us ho was, happy as ho was, ho would do well 
 to imitate his companiourt and take to himsolf a wife. 
 I . i^^i". ^f'"''' "ottlod, ho must find a homo, not only for himself 
 but tor his hi'ido and his future children. 
 
 Tho b'ase of his father was very small, its resources very feeble, 
 iiut careless Tom could not roalizo that the easy life he had led until 
 then could cease, and ho spoke to his father of his prospects. 
 
 The old man told his son that it was an impossibility for him 
 to feed an additional mouth at tho family table, or to find room for 
 another woman in his house. 
 
 If Tom wanted to marry, he would have to find another home 
 and take care of his new family. 
 
 This answer destroyed Tom's hopes. Accustomed as ho was to 
 lead an idle life he could not make up his mind to make a chan"e, 
 that is to say, work for a living. '' 
 
 He went to his sister and made the same request, namely, 
 would sho consent to take him with his wife in case he would 
 marry. 
 
 Margaret Nulty, who is married to a Mr. Poudrier, living at 
 Waxford, answered, like her father, that her circumstances did not 
 warrant such an increase in tho family. In brief, Tom was refused 
 everywhere. 
 
 Tom said nothing and went away, having to all appearances 
 resolved to go to work in order to save enough to go housekeeping. 
 
 Such a resolution in such a man was not to bo taken seriously. 
 In him it was the shadow of a thought. It is not to be rendered at, 
 therefore, that on his way to tho contractor, to whom he was to otfer 
 his services, Tom backed out, and, with head bowed as if loaded 
 with a painful thought, he came back to his home, dreaming. 
 
 It was almost noon. 
 
 It was a Thursday, the 4th of November, 1897. 
 
 The fields were deserted and silent ; a biting breeze whistled 
 through the denuded boughs of the trees, tearing away the last 
 purple leaves that had not yet fallen. 
 
 In this wild solitude Tom was thinking, perhaps, for the first 
 time in his life. 
 
 He was thinking that labor was a hardship, and did not know 
 that work was the penalty inflicted upon man by God. 
 
 At this time, flashed upon his mental vision all the obstacles 
 that were between him and his project of marriage, — his passion for 
 dancing, his love for the fiddle, his leanings towards an idle life; and 
 he was thinking with bitterness. 
 
 He was thinking that if his father's house was not incumbered 
 by his sisters and his little brother, he could himself enjoy with the 
 mate of his choice the idle life he always had led ; he could eat, 
 drink, sleep, idle away the time in smoking-or dancing without ever 
 being obliged to work. 
 
His head bowed down, lie was advancin^i; slowly, while thinking 
 of the futiiic, when the idea which had sinouldeicd in his hniin 
 took a hoi'i'ihle tirmnoHs. 
 
 _ What! luH throe sisters, his little brother! are they, then the 
 nisignihcant obstacles to his happiness ? 
 
 Well, t!iou<,4it he, since they are in my way, they must die. 
 
 It IS then .that, turnini;- back upon the road, he rcL'ained the 
 house, determined to accomplish the awful deed. 
 
 As a matter of fact, only the sudden disappearance of his three 
 sisters and his little brother could make place for him and his 
 future wife at his father's hearth. 
 
 No doubt, lie loved the boir.gs whom ho had thus doomed to 
 . ,'P in his culd, heartless cal' nlations, but he loved much better the 
 Idle life no had led until this hour, and above all things he wanted 
 to contimie this life and at the same time enjoy all the <rross 
 pleasures of which he had always been so fond. 
 
 In oi'der to lead this existence, and to perpetuate this life of a 
 spoiled chdd, when ho would have taken unto liiniseif a wife, ho 
 must needs always have, not only an assured shelter, but a table 
 always served for him, without having to procui'o tho suiiplies bv 
 honest work. " i i \ j 
 
 It was evident that strangers would not furnish him these 
 things. Only his father an(i mother, althougii poor themselves 
 would be weak enough and ignorant enough of their duty towards 
 society to facilitate for liim so smiling a future. 
 
 Notwithstanding his little intelligence, Tom was siii'ewd enough 
 to utiderstand that his laxiness, together with his other faults would 
 not hnd outside of his fathor's house the asylum he sought for his 
 love and his animal appetite. 
 
 It was after these reflections that he took the wicked resolution 
 to clear tho.way by killing tho four innocent victims that fate had 
 placed in Ins way. 
 
 And this is why Tom Nulty was going towards his home about 
 noon on Thursday, the 4t.h of November, ilo knew the house had 
 hecn left in tho care of the four children, Elizabeth, Annie, Helen 
 andlatrick. On arriving, Tom was struck by the unusual (Uiiet 
 of tho jilace. ' 
 
 What! said ho to himself, uneasy lor the accomplishment of 
 his hornblo purpose, is thoro no one at home? 
 
 No sootier had ho thought ibis than ho .saw l-:ii7.abol,h, the oldest 
 of the children, whose duties had called to tho barn. 
 
 Tom grinned in a fiendish manner. For an instiint, owino- to 
 the groat quietness of the i)lace, he had thought that the four itmo- 
 cents doomed by him to a horrible death, in order to accomplish his 
 projects, had foiled him by going away for some purpose or other. 
 I his ab,sence would have impoiilled his j)urpose. 
 
 The sight of Kliz.-fbe'h, showing that his fears were unfounded, 
 had thrown a gleam of ierocious joy in his brutish brain, and he 
 
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 grinned while he grasped a stror.g woodman's axe and 8toIe silcnlly 
 towui-ds the barn. 
 
 Watching with a vigilant eye, listening with both eai-s, tip-too- 
 ing like a Huron on scout, he looked like a tiger seeking to sui prise 
 a timid fawn drinking the sweet water of a spring. Poor Elizabotli 
 had no suspicion. She doubtless saw Tom, but paid no attention lo 
 Ins presence, unusual as it was at that hour of the (iay. Without 
 interrupting her work she could see him, the lazy brother, advanc- 
 ing stealthily, a hand behind his back, as if hiding something ; she 
 waK so accustomed to see the strange freaks of her brother that she 
 was not surprised, and probably did not think it worth her while to 
 stop work and talk with him. 
 
 Tom, hiding his axe, advanced towards his sistei- ; he came 
 almost upon her, and, watching a fiivorahle moment, while the poor 
 girl was stooping to pick up some small object on the earth, he 
 straigi)tencd himself up, swinging his terrible instrumor)t over the 
 head of the unhappy girl, and with the arm ' woodman attacking 
 a big tree, he struck the poor creature, kil.. g iier with a single 
 blow. 
 
 Elizabeth died without a struggle ; death was instantaneous. 
 A deep cut, horrible to see, was gaping on the leftside of the poor 
 girl's neck. 
 
 Tom stared stoically at his dead sister for a few seconds ; the 
 frightful wound through which this young creature's life's blood 
 was llowing. could not arouse a gleam of pity in the breast of this 
 monster. On the contrary, it seemed to double his thirst i'or blood. 
 Gnashing his teeth, and foam oozing from his lips, 1 he wild-eyed 
 fratricide threw a glance at the sliantiCs which formed j)ai't of the 
 miserable farm, and wiping the cold sweat from his brow with his 
 shirtsleeves ho was starling towards the main building when his 
 sister Annie, innocent girl, came to olfcr hoi'self to his merciless 
 blow. 
 
 The |K)or little one was advancing unsuspectingly towards the 
 barn ; she was coming to help her sister in her work. 
 
 Tom shuddei'cd, but still'ening himself ugainst any emotion that 
 might turn him from his ))urposo, he hid behind the door, intending 
 to destroy the poor child with one blow of his terrible axe. 
 
 The unhappy creature on reaching the door saw befoi'e her the 
 lifele^s body of Elizabeth, lying in a pool of blood ; uttering a heart 
 I'onding shriek, she covered her eyes with her hands atid ilcd. 
 
 This unforeseen flight only delayed her fate an instant longer. 
 Realizing what a danger for him there was, should the child escape, 
 Tom sprung like a tiger and ran after his victim. 
 
 In three steps he overtook Annie, still shrieking with horror 
 and terror. 
 
 The deadly axe again came into play. Wielded by an arm, whoso 
 strength was increased by a maniacal fury, it dosci-ibed a large 
 v\\-i-\:\ and foil on the poor child, almost severing the head from the 
 body. 
 
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 »,«„,/" ^A-' ^"? .^""ie.^as stretched lifelcps upon the soil, and her 
 heartrending shrieks htilled forever. 
 
 Fiom this moment Tom was no longer human. He had only 
 one impuse and that was destrui-tion and mu.der. He was thirst 
 
 I^Li'^LK^ :- '■''"1'^ ^''^*' ""^'^"^ ^h« ^"^•■'•« humanl<ind to 
 
 hi in n V""'. 'T'^ ' ^"^ '^ '^«>barous as to impose work upon 
 h;.m, m order to dcHtroy it at one blow as he had destroyed his two 
 sisters, Elizabeth and Annie. "^ 
 
 Dishevelled, haggard, terrible, he was considering his second 
 victim w.lh a furious rage, and seemed to enjoy this horrible con- 
 templation, when a sudden thought recalled him to hS infamous 
 
 on Je!" ^^''"^^^ ""^ ^^''^*'° ^"^ ^''^'■''■^' '■"'^'^'^ ^^^^"g^ ^'^ brain 
 
 Ho raised his head as would a tiger disturbed over its nrev by 
 an unexpected noise. ",ci hb piej oy 
 
 Tom was surprised to hear strange sounds coming from the 
 house only a few steps from the scene of Ihe butchery 
 
 Helen and Patrick had witnessed the flight of thc'ir sister Annie 
 and had .een Iheir big brother strike her down as she ran 
 
 Poor children I Terrorized, and moved by the supremo instinct 
 of self-pieservalion they had hastily tried to barrieade^hemselves in 
 the house by piling articles of furniture together in the vain hope 
 of escaping the ferocity of the murderer. ^ 
 
 brute^ '^'*'' ^^'"^ """'^^ ^^^^ ^^'^ """"^^^ ^^® attention of the fiendish 
 Poor Helen! Poor Patrick ! They had seen Annie fall under 
 Tom's blow, and seeing the fury of the murderer, wTeaftaid to 
 share her fate. The unhappy children did not want lo 3 e and 
 
 ?o a'arthfm'.'''*'' ''^"'' ""'^^^ '''"''''''' ^^''^ "-« beggrngTom' 
 Vain efforts I The brute had tasted blood and was beyond control 
 
 iSIexpe'ctrdly/'"''^ ^' ''^"'^ ^''"^^" ^° '''' ^««^-' ^^^^h Si 
 ;'Open the door," shrieked the fiend, with a horrible curse. 
 The two children crazy with fear, held to each other with the 
 
 -m!."^;! 'z^r' '"'^ '''''' ^"•''^ ^'«^'^ p«- their pi;^ b>': 
 
 Unhappy children 1 Mercy! Why mercy I 
 
 fl,n H^!!'' •^''"'^ "^fJ -^^"'"^ impatient. The resistance shown bv 
 the door increased his exasperation. Ho retreated one stopTfted 
 his murderous axe and struck the door with all his strong V 
 
 .u T-M ^°T ^f\ ^'^^ * ^'"'^t®'' noise over the frail obstacle that 
 the children had placed behind it. "osiacie tnat 
 
 With a violent kick Tom scattered what lay in his way and 
 penetrated into the bare room. ^ ^' " 
 
 Instinctively the two children separated and t\^ nn^h in Hn 
 opposite corner, as if they were trying to gain time bydividing 
 
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 the attention of the raurdorei-, in the wild hope that succor would 
 reach them in time. 
 
 Alas! they were doomed to die. 
 
 Tom first sprung on TIelen. Before the poor child could utter 
 a cry the murderous axe had fallen, gashing the neck in the very 
 same place where her sisters had been struck. 
 
 A third corpse lay in the path of the murderer. 
 
 As to little Patrick, pale and trembling with terror, he had no 
 time to stammer a vain prayer for mercy. 
 
 Tom, pitiless, swung his axe for the last time, and the keen 
 edge of the weapon cut out the life of the last innocent being who 
 stood in the way of his projects. 
 
 After accomplishing this horrible massacre, Tom Nulty loft the 
 house, and wandered in the woods like a wild beast gorged with 
 blood. 
 
 Towards evening, he went to the house of an honorable farmer, 
 Mr. Beaudi-y. There he met Miss Rosa Lenperance, the grand- 
 daughter of Heaudr}', who que«tioncd him about his excited state 
 and his sadness. 
 
 "Nothing is the matter," replied Tom. 
 
 He stayed at Beaudry's until ten o'clock at night, conversing 
 much as usual, and left the house to go home at his usual hour. 
 
 Mi?is Rosa Lenperance, who is ordinarily called Miss Bcaudry 
 after her grandfather, with whom she stays, is a ])retty, darl<-haired 
 girl ; her large black eyes are soft and frank. Elegant and intelli- 
 gent, this girl had made a profound impression on Tom, who.despite 
 his witdness, had nevorlheless a heart. 
 
 Miss Kosa is eighteen years old ; she lived two years in Mont- 
 real, where she acquired the grace and innocent coquetry of the 
 young misses in the city. One can easily understand how such a 
 girl Miade an impression on a fellow keenly alive to all ihat makes 
 life agreeable in spite of his dislike to work. 
 
 Tom met Miss Rosa Lesperance only two weeks before the 
 crime. Accustomed to have his way in everything, he followed 
 up his usual lino of conduct and came right to the point. 
 
 Ho had hardly made the acquaintance of the young person, 
 before ho askod her to marry him. Miss Rosa said neither yes 
 nor no, and this vague answer, this polite putting otf, was hutHcient 
 for him to build liis plans for the future. He considered himself as 
 already the husband of the young u;irl, and, without lotting the 
 grasb grow under his foot, ho enquired first of his parents, then of his 
 sister, whether ho could get from thom the shelter and the daily food 
 without having any other care than taking his place at the table, 
 or going to bed. 
 
 It has already been seen how this beautiful project had mis- 
 carried. 
 
 It must here be said that in all this affair, Miss Lesperance is 
 blameless. 
 
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 tions^of : T^LfZJ7kfj't:?''n "^"' ^'^^ '-^^^'-d *he atten. 
 WO.0 tha JanAS:;',^-;;-;^! ^e^E^^ "^ ^«"- - 
 
 Although ho Toun/hdv 'iivo.) v« ''''' head over ears in lov!J 
 of the'road. ^' ''^'"^'^^ ^^^^'"^ ^^:>'' "' «Pite of the bad ntate 
 
 know^^'oUrrefd"r^L.d\^^;e":/^^^ ^^-"fe' -- 
 
 unable to seize the ddicate Bhados o ? 1 '^"''"'' i'"'^ "^«r.ov"ea-, was 
 Bosa not having posit vely sa d no h > "^^-^f'^^ttod answer. 'Miss 
 yos, and ho acted accoi^in^g?;'^ ' ^'^ ^«^^'"d°d that she had said 
 
 positir^tr^AifSlI '^"^ "'''''^^'' '^ ^he young girl had 
 
 easilfZci,^:,^!"^ ""'""^^^"^ '^^^ ^^« "-^-e of the crime was 
 As soon as the bodies worcdispnvniwi ... • • 
 
 La^.ino,^.;r^,fl;t-^^^ 
 
 his words, the look of his f CO nd'^H T.. P'"^ '""'^ ^'^"^•".^^ 
 convinced that he was the guiitj^n' -in "'"^ ™'^"^ ^^"'"'^ ^''^ ^'^ 
 
 fune.Srsft^:;'j\hffoutv;<.t?^''''^<T'"'' T^'" ^^-t-* ^t the 
 J^'awdon. The Chief clVrhrr'" ^'" '""^'^^' '''^^'« ^^^-^r^'* at 
 marked that Tom was show r. ^ nr^J:-'??"*.': "" ^''^' ^'^•^^'•^^^•■' ^o- 
 This sign, added trihorsnir^i' "'!"'''' "^'"« of uneasiness. 
 
 i)etocti^kecaskiUi:!^r;K;;ionh;;o^ "'^"•'^^'^'^''' -««-«^ 
 
 J cm was invited to come to Mr M ' ' 
 service was concluded. 
 
 Tom accepted the invitation without any hositaMon 
 
 dotectle!"" "'""" ""^ '''""' 1'°'" "PP""''"'! l>ofo.o the clever 
 
 beforehand, Ta "if ';'„rU^"'rrcan''',r"°'i ' "I'"' '«" J"" 
 ca»eItliinkilttoa,-,e.tyo" ''^ be used against you in 
 
 Moriji's Hotel as soon as the 
 
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 Tom Nulty, thus warno'l againut any declaration that he 
 might make detrimental to himself, spoke, nevertholoss, and he 
 began to stammer a weak story in which ho reUated his wanderings 
 in the woods after leaving Madame Poudrier'e house. At twilight ho 
 had gone to Mr. Beaudry's, where he passed the evening with Miss 
 Uosa Lesperance. 
 
 Briefly, he accounted for a part of the time. Serious gaps in his 
 story occurred, nevertheless, ^ ips which he appeared unable to fill. 
 
 Detective McCaskill's suspicions wore gra!dually becoming cer- 
 tainties. 
 
 Ho began, accordingly, to press Tom so closo that the young 
 man, who had murdered his sisters in cold blood, could not avoid 
 the logic of his questioner. 
 
 One after the other ho told contradictory stories which, not- 
 withstanding frequent denials, showed him to be, if not the 
 murderer, at least the accomplice or the instigator of the crime. 
 
 The detective was now convinced. Taking Tom Nulty aside, 
 he looked at him square in the eye and said: 
 
 " I now know all that I wanted to know. It was you that 
 killed your brother and sisters I You are my prisoner." 
 
 Tom was taken aback, hardly having enough strength left to 
 weakly deny the frightful accusation. 
 
 At half-past three in the afternoon on the same day, Tom en- 
 tered a carriage with High Constable Levesque and Detective 
 McCaskill, who were taking him to the Joliotte prison. 
 
 On the way to jail, Tom, unable to keep his mouth shut any 
 longer, confessed fully to the officers, and the following day, Sunday, 
 he repeated his confession as follows : 
 
 "My name is Thomas Nulty, I will be twenty-one years old 
 next Christmas. 
 
 " The Tuesday before the murder, I went to see my sister 
 Margaret, who lives in Waxford, two miles and a half from Chertsey. 
 
 "My sister is thirty years old, and is married to Alex. 
 Poudrier. I remained at ray sister's until ten o'clock Thursday 
 morning, and then started for home. 
 
 " On arriving homo I went into the house, where I found my 
 three young sisters and little brother. 
 
 " After taking otf my coat, I went out of the house and taking 
 the axe, which was at the door, I began to split wood. 
 
 "Almost at the same instant, my sister Elizabeth came out of 
 the house to go to the barn. I followed, having then no intention of 
 killing her. On approaching her, Isuddenly felt seized with an insane 
 desire to kill, and, as I had the axe in my hand, I placed myself so 
 I could not be soon, and struck her on the neck. I came out of the 
 barn then and met my sister Annie. I do not remember anything 
 else. I do not know whether it was I that struck Annie j neither do 
 I know if I struck Helen and Patrick. I do not remember having 
 burst in the door. I came out of the house unconscious of having 
 killed my brother and sisters. 
 
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 Beaudry's house. When I It fSj S- '''Ji™'*^*^' ^ ^«nt <o Mr 
 was the matter, I seemed so^sad "' ^"' ^*^""'^''^ ^^^^^^ "^^ what 
 ;; 'Nothing, is the matter,' I replied. 
 
 ni.h;:Mt,SwtTiX«4^,n,fr;,^f about ten «'^'-k that 
 phcej, and did not premeditate the So'- '' ^ ^""^ "« «««o°»- 
 
 n.ori|rdX";^dXtr;'arrdrtf^" '^/^^^"^^ 
 
 ^ We will not undertake to folS th^ff ^-'^ ^" theHcaffold. 
 
 whether thej tried to finroutTomTactomnV^^^^^^^ in their ta«k, 
 to prove premeditation ac^^omphces or mei-ely sought 
 
 confirmed by various t«tira™y this o,i^^ kT JS" '■"'''"°<' "'o™ 
 sentence of death r..o„„„„oenA'^„°7N„Uv'' " " """"t' - the 
 
 murdei- in the first degree "^ ^ rendered a verdict of 
 
 asked : "^ ^® ^^^^ ^^^^> and, addressing the prisoner 
 
 Tc!^ N^i?; :r3^^ ^^^ ^^^- ' P'--unce your sentence ? •' 
 
 the act'-' " "'^ ^'""'^' '' '-y ^---'edge, for I had no reason to do 
 
 to the common jail of thedist'? t of Jo 1?^%^"" ^"'^•>^' '^^ ^aken 
 until the twentieth day of the monU of M.v ' ''T '" ^' ^"^ained 
 in. he morning, thence'to be led to he n£ /r'' "'•'""" "'«l«ck 
 and then you shall be hung by the noH fn?-i ^^«^»t.on and there 
 
 ;: May Gaa have merc|.oi; {t.^s'^ul ""^' ^"" ""^ '^^"^^• 
 who ^^:^Z!:s^::J:^::^'^ ^However, there are manv 
 
 the pleadings have not abso S p ovo„ ha. 't'"'''""".^'«"- ^h'^^ 
 serious don bts assail all faij--mindod^I T '^''"^ "™«P"''«i ble, 
 
 not surprise us to see the sen ence otdZl ^' ^""'^ '^'"'^^'-^ 
 imprisonment for life. "^^^ence of death commuted to one of 
 
THE CRIME AT ST. LIBOIRE. 
 
 The four-fold murder at Rawdon had so occupied the public 
 mind that another drama happening a few days before at St. Liboire 
 parish, Bagot county, had almost escaped notice. 
 
 When, however, the murderer of Rawdon was discovered, public 
 curiosity, always on the alert, went wild over the mystery of St. 
 Liboire, which from this moment occupied evei-ybody's attention. 
 
 In fact, this event was worthy of the interest shown. 
 
 Following are the facts : 
 
 On Saturday, the 30th of October, 1897, Dr. Berthiaume, 
 phyBician, of St. Liboire parish, was visited by Mr. Nadeau, black- 
 smith. This man seemed hurried and very much m^ved. Without 
 stopping to indulge in tha usual greetings, he said bluntly: 
 
 " Hurry up, doctor, 1 came to fetch you. Quick, quick, you 
 must come with me. We first found Johnny Laplante sti-etched 
 in the middle of the road, in front of his house, we think he is dead." 
 
 The physician wanted to inquire about the event, but the man, 
 Nadeau, who was in a hurry to get back to his friends, would not 
 give him time to discuss the question then. 
 
 " Hurry up, hurry up," he was saying, " hurry, up, doctor." 
 
 The physician jumped into the carriage and both were soon 
 speeding towards the house of the unfortunate Laplante. 
 
 Several neighbors were gathered together, close by the house, 
 surrounding a body stretched on the ground in a pool of blood. 
 
 The doctor alighted, followed by Nadeau, and walked quickly 
 towaixls the group of men, who moved aside on his approach, thus 
 bringing to view the inanimate body of Johnny Laplante. 
 
 The unfortunate man was stretched his full length. The right 
 arm alongside the body, the left spread out at an angle of about 
 thirty degrees. 
 
 The hat of the victim was held in the left hand. The fingers 
 of the right hand were shut tight. 
 
 The head as well as the left hand were literally bathed in 
 blood. ^ 
 
 The physician calculated that there was a half gallon of clotted 
 blood under the head, and at least two ounces under the left hand of 
 the corpse. 
 
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 After 
 
 COIlt 
 
 omplating this Had spectacle for 
 
 doctor said : ' " ' ""^ -i- v;tuuie loi- a tew minutes, the 
 
 was brou^^ht to the doeU^-,C^^l^^^;^'^iy'i-rk. A lantern 
 ho moved the hintorn from pi-ice t n L '^ " ^''''''''^' ''^"^' «» 
 
 ohral light added to tho^ro.Sr'ot'Z' ";:;;"' ''' '''''''' ^'^ -P"^- 
 Btono^iSl,!''^"'"'"' ""^ '"•^^"•^"'■"-^ that Johnny Lapiante was 
 
 tbocWt^rl^:?™^;;^;;;;,^;- -- -- be,ond human aid 
 to ascertain tt cause of LTh i^ 'rSV'"^"'^'"'^'"^'""' '"^ «''^f-^'' 
 It to bo a simple, if. unfortunate, accidont «^«'y «"« believed 
 
 thocorpso. "^ ^ ' w.ijm, the doctor examined 
 
 Was it a crime, or an accident ? TK^ ^u * 
 sent began a vigorous nea.-ch but found Lm*"' r?^ '^"'•^^'^"« P^-«- 
 mstruments no weapon of a^ Irwore ?o unrf- '' ? '^ >''"^- ^^ 
 
 After having marked exar (Iv H? "^ '" ^''*' ^''^''"''t^'- 
 
 taken note of allthe deUils of ?1 e i^rna^^^ ^ "'"" ''^'y ""^ 
 ordere<l it taken into the house ^ ^"^ "-'"''P^^' ^^e doctor 
 
 desoS^i^Sn^cS^thS^t ''-'''^''^^ ^' '^^ «-- of 
 orwhom is thirteen .ears old,^T^':;^---ti"!L?r^J 
 
 guisl^-Se^llllf^S-i^c^SS'^^'^",^-^^^ -^^ ^^«- 
 of her husband. *'''^"'''*^ «^ complicity in the murder 
 
 covoi-od with clotted Hood "" "'^ "'° ''<"'"! "'hicli was 
 
 the ^rrofic^.^rs'oi^?:! t s.-'T" "-'-""^ 
 
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 no\v,s],aj)Grs of 
 nn-ost8 would socjn take 
 
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 OonhT'wi"' ^'f ^''" ^''' lower jaw broken in the middle 
 
 to n-'r ^,^i:^^;^^,;:;i't':;:d:;.tir:::;;^^ 'f ^^'-^-^ 
 
 possible mui-doror discover nonie chje to ibo 
 
 al«o a silver watch and chain ''•""■'" "'"•^' '^ -J"""'- ""'i u lew ceiils, 
 
 fact, bv .clo,.l,„„„",:- aZcI'tSll^J,'/.".?™'*'' ''° ■="""""-«'--■<' '!»' 
 Wo will ,i„t IIjIIow tl,e iimuc.t i,i all ii, ,l„,,ii. „. 
 
 tho day tlii-ow ocit hints tPiat «,mo 
 
 on «,«,,icioi,. ■' '"'"" "".V ""■"™"t l>or»o,i was ai-reitod 
 
 on the subect at the time the c^l,•If^/,;nT "^ ^'"'^'' boannir 
 
 When all L ai.eo^H::::^^z^'ziz;:s:: ^ ^^"^^^ 
 
 can, and often has taken 'idvinfum r^P +i '? , ''' ^'le criminal 
 
 out. Sh<,uld the CO no • ic aid f f '^*-\ ^'^""^^ «^ ^^'« thus sp.ead 
 ^. In almost all cai:: tl" lllbH I^^S tti::^:;!^^ ^^^'''-• 
 gations are liable to place the success of h. Jin "•"* '"'''''^'■ 
 Notwithstandini? this we have s«cn Tin '^'■'•'' "' .)«'^P''ii''^7- 
 
 spint, complaint tTcTiionyZ.''''''^^^^^^^ '" '^ ^^«'««1^ 
 doors' in accordance wththof^.^^'"?"?' '^^'^'' '^''^^''^^ ^"''^^^d 
 prosecutor. ' ''^'^ ^''™''' '"'^tructions of the ,)ublic 
 
 at which 1.U I -^ ' •'0'>""y Laplantowent to St HvacinfhA 
 
 nt w hich plaee ho was to receive a sum of money exceedinrS ' 
 
\^r 
 
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 ^hr.^ "r""! ^^'f ^T ."^'^^ "^"^ ''^''y ""«a«.y- A certain party with 
 whom her hunband had business relations, had threatened Tim 
 several tiraes, and Mrs. Laplanto was aware of the fact 
 
 " Be enro, and do not bo late," wei-o hei- hist words to him 
 
 b'vTo '"h t'int' ^r^' '^'f '' "^^ ''' yourself have ^nythTng''" 
 say to that man, but come homo as soon as your business is done 
 as I will be uneasy until I see you again." ' 
 
 "Be easy my good wife," said he, " and fear nothing. I will be 
 back from St. Hyacinthe by the six o'clock train." ^ 
 
 Nothwithstandi^ng this assurance and her knowledge that her 
 
 An unaccountable foreboding hung like a cloud over her At 
 SIX clock she was feverishly awaiting her husband's coming • the 
 time seemed desperately long At half-past six her uneasiness grew 
 80 great as almost to overcome her ; her husband should have arifved 
 andshe could not undf stand the delay. Enorvate.1, she lay diwn a 
 moment, hoping hat a short rest would culm her and help^ to pass 
 away the weary time of waiting. * i-" pass 
 
 She staid thus dozing and half conscious until seven o'clock 
 When she heard the clock strike the hour, she jumped up, haunted 
 ^yn unexplained terror. She was looking about her, not knowing 
 
 Tamertttton"'^' '' '"'" ^ ^■^•^^'^^' ^^^«" ^"^^^'^ « ^-^ 
 It was the knock of a pei-son in a hurry, hav-.iff imnortant 
 
 news to communicate not the insignificant knock of a neighbor 
 
 coming to spend an idle hour. "^^'guijor 
 
 In the state in which the poor woman was, she felt that the 
 
 person knocking was the bearer of bad news 
 
 J^eforo she could take a step, she heard the door open and the 
 voice of an excited man ask one of the children in a toC calculated 
 to inspire uneasiness : v.aii.uj»i«<j 
 
 " Is your father at home ? " 
 
 " No, sir," answered the child. 
 
 This took but a moment. Mrs. Laplanto had hardly seen the 
 
 W tn''dlinT'"^"t'' J«'"«d ^i^l^ her uneasiness, had not allowed 
 her to detain the unknown and question him 
 
 n^.,f^^ ■''''"'V ^f ^^^ promptly, and her forebodings of the day 
 overcoming her, she uttered a piercing shriek, foldid her armi 
 about her children, and bursting into tears, she said • 
 
 Oh ! my poor children ! a great misfortuue threatens us." 
 And, while this devoted family was in grief without yet know- 
 ing the extent of their misfortune, Dr. Berthiaume was but a few 
 steps away, performing sad duties, as wo have related at the begin- 
 ning of this chapter. "ogm 
 
 In the same time that the doctor was trying to solve the mys- 
 tery surrounding the death of Laplanto, the wife of the victim Un- 
 aware that the father of her children was lying dead at fifty S, 
 
 
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 " U t hli,''""'"'^'''?'','' "'■;'*'' "'i""!"? her arm« wildly. 
 * * .V , ... '"' ''"" '":<'" l< cil- * * Oh I mv ohi ,lr.n 
 
 inish »l'«t"'™l'«'-««lf"Ptoad«p»ir that notLIng could dim- 
 
 r„.to^:j;:,s4".:.s;s:S-2^ti;l^!;-t,.::rrp^^^^^^ 
 
 the f rintn'-f eSf tt,*ZL"'-o.rl'L7Z h^l'"„,. .J^ 
 
 Ihis reaction took place in Mi-h. Laplante's mfnd • she driflrl 
 her tears, and by an effort of her will became comparatiVel v c- Im 
 
 ?etn'tr"?or""^ '^^^ ^'^"^"^^^ ^^-^<-' «-iy--lved?o 
 At this moment the door opened, and a dismal si.'ht mof h«^ 
 
 s^-^rtif tft-hS :L?dV/; it.tirr£ Jt S 
 
 of ou!^„°a""'ivr '"'" "■'" ''"'"''' '■""■"^ ""'l '•"™""' 'to thread 
 
 e,ue,t:;'LTpr?o?ru'?isr/.?i'^v::'^ 
 
 Thanks to the soc-et inv..tigotion« of the co „„ort fn ,°e;t all 
 
 earned „„, thaf the ^'iouV c „e \ ° „^'Jt'LZ7itr,:° r' h!,'^ 
 
 Johnny Gn.llemain, a nephew of the dead man, who had leHh^ 
 SMdefLXIr"""- ''" "■■""» '^ ■■ejoinhi.VrX'-Magt 
 
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 It JH oertaii, tli;>t if the inquosL h.-i'l boon niil)lu. «!,« „ 
 would h«v. ..|,.;od on« by onolll the U. ovi s 'j j^rjC 
 the young m^irdoror, thu. made ucquain.od with i' Ccha.ios tl^^ 
 Kiithorod upon i'l i, ' v,.u,| ,,,^^0 hud all tho ,>,,.„ mWt fin ^ 
 world of escaping .,, _ Ity oi' hi. horrible crime. ""'^'"^ '" t'''> 
 
 Oiii- insistaiR'o upon ihiM point will bo for.rivon im Wn K^i- 
 that there will never bo enough protestution.^a'.a^n t thrnubH X 
 given to prel.m.na.y inquests. There is in thi; Hy.tem L in oon^ 
 venionco and a danger, both equally grave. ^ °"' 
 
 The inconvenione^o is that tho criminal, informed day by dav 
 of tho progrcHs of the mquest, is thus allowed to escape nt thi 
 prcc.se moment when his guilt is manifest. The .lam 'e ■ thi hn 
 crnmnal is enabled, according to circumstn.u.cs o pmHt bv « 
 
 accused. tiack, sometimes caunc an innocent poi-son to be 
 
 not hlpt^nT' "'■'"'' "'"' '^'' ^'"'^ ""^^^" '^« «^««- «•• 'hat it can- 
 
 As soon as suspicion was directed towards Guillemain thn 
 Dohce acted with renewed activity nml discretion. """"''''°' ^^^ 
 
 ti vas found out without .litficulty that the young man who 
 alVr ' ''"' '" 'J^""'' ''^ ^'- Liboire,'was .pending f I'e^ly ut Tifd- 
 
 nf Tivi'J r"^ '^"''^'' "^^';'" •'!" ^•'^change of telegrams, tho Chief of Police 
 
 Ah soon a.s tho news of Uuillomain's arrest was known in 
 & Libo.re, the people were dumb-foun.led. EverylH.dy Zugl 
 that he arrest was au crr,>r that would quickly bo reco.-nized 
 
 >oung fellow was well liked in St. Liboiro, and all had 
 
 JUoreovor, ho not only seemed to love his uncle, but 
 
 faith in hirn. 
 really did so. 
 
 Guillemain is r, youth of seventeen, very peaceable and obedient 
 and as .far as knowc ihen had no bad habits oocuiont, 
 
 Even after his confession, people refused to believe him guilty. 
 It IS impossible," they said. "This child, for he is but a 
 child cannot have committed so atrocious a crime. He i too weak 
 lo^Sfhiff^C/'''^' '" havoatUicked the strongman tluShrused 
 
 The curate the mayor, Mr. Ducharme j Dr. Borthiaume Mr 
 Lajoie, one of the principal merchants, and all the best Sens of 
 the place could not, and would not admit the guilt of the accused 
 deSl?:'"^'"' ''" "'■' -"'^'^ of committing ?ven the smSnestrnt 
 
 mittitA^hfcTmfalon';"^' ' "' ""' '^'^^^^ ^^"^ -P^^'« ^^ -- 
 
 * * 
 
 » 
 
SI 
 
 • 1 • 
 
 * I « 
 
 This last version HatiKticd everybody, and it in certain thut ull 
 even the police ofticialH, believed that Guillen...in was ed into the 
 crime by one or several acconiplicer,. '^^ 
 
 n uJ^-u '^r^'' ""' att»i'-s Ki'vo (Juillemain an opportunity to invent 
 a homble st..ry ; more horrible than the crime itself 
 
 „n «, i'?i"T.''''u'";?^"'''' '^^''" q"e«tioned as to his accomplices, 
 answered thct ho had been pushed to tie act by his aunt, who had 
 pconiised U, marry him after the deed. 
 
 .The horror of this declaration can easily be understood, but it 
 . hon ;blo to thmk that some people believed in this declarati.,n 
 ulthou^'h It was a lie from boginnin" to end ''»u(/n, 
 
 this .ilbjecL' '" ''''"*' ^'"'^ '""^'^''"^^ «^' «>'illomain's declaration on 
 
 He first said that on or about the first of October he went to St 
 
 Liboiro, on a visit to his uncle ; while there, .lurin.' two weeks' 
 
 according' to his statement, his aunt spoke to him continually about 
 
 the freedom that her husband's death would -ivo her, and that she 
 
 wanted to g.^ rid of him. On the thirteentlTof Octobei Lap an o 
 
 was to ^ro to St. Ilyacinthe to collect a large sum of money " It was 
 
 hen,' further said Gu llemain, that " My aunt judged the moment 
 
 avorable, and she told me that 1 would never hilvet better ocS 
 
 in : i "Tk ''"y?-"" «^ ^'?t^?tion.- The prisoner added that hi" 
 
 aunt phed him with iquor during the entire day and never ceased 
 
 urging him to commit the crime. ^w>»eu 
 
 At the favorable moment, completely under the control of his 
 annt he hvl himsef behind the house, and when his uncle passed 
 by without seeing him, he struck him on the head with a stick and 
 killed him with one blow. 
 
 This declaration, of which we give the sense, if not the precise 
 terms, was made l)elore the authorities at Biddeford 
 
 Wo will see further on, that after the extradition the accused 
 did not persis m this statement, but that ho sought to throw otf the 
 police m another direction as false as the other 
 
 Notwithstanding the horrible accusation that the boy had made 
 i.gainst his aunt, the latter did not believe in the guilt of hor 
 nephew. ° 
 
 " [ do not bclievo," she said, " that my nephew is guilty of the 
 murder of my husband. As long as he lived with us, he^was a 
 good boy and showed himself willing and useful. Nolhinir in his 
 behavior, before or after the murder, shows any signs of guilt " 
 V,nn r K ''P^'^^/his good woman ; this mother' with a bleeding 
 heart, who would not believe her nephew guilty in face of his con- 
 fession J attributing it to an aberration of the mind. It was this 
 good creature whom the mi.sereant dared to accuse at tho moment 
 when she was defending him against all evidence 
 
 Like every one else she was at last compelled to believe in the 
 repeated confessions of the murderer. 
 
 To show how much aith Mrs. Laplanto 
 
 will hero faithfully repoft-l the narrative of 
 
 jphew, 
 
 we 
 
 a person who had an 
 
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 intoryiow with tho widow on the seventeenth of November. After 
 describing the scenes about tho house andslcotching the mother and 
 follows :' "^'"""''' '"'P"'""' '^' '"'^''^'^ ^^ ^'>° murderer'« aunt as 
 
 "Is it not torribio?" said Mrs. Lapiante, after bein- made 
 acquauited with our mission " I assure fou that neither iTio^my 
 late husband coul.l ever have believed young Guillemain our 
 nephew, capable of committing so horrible a crima From the time 
 of his arrival here, Johnny Guillemain worked exclusively iVtTe 
 helds. My poor husband could never have thought him capable of 
 committing murder. Johnny was always ver/willin- ' d vp,v 
 
 mLTdeJe" ? ^"' """ ' '"^''"^ ^'^^^ '^ ^^"'^ "In out" to be I 
 
 T„,.ilT^''u'^''^?''^'r^, "^^''^ ^*«''« this morning," continued Mrs. 
 to i ? ' ^"'^ ^''''^' ?' ""^y ^ ^'^ "'^' answer tho questions pu 
 to mo/ I now remember that my nephew has done many reire- 
 
 ^ttJnfinn 7 ^l''- *7^/"=i *'^"^« '^''^"''^ ^^^^^ awakonod our 
 attention I even advised his father and mother of them. They 
 answered, ' Never mind ; it is nothing.' ^ 
 
 " Now," continued the widow, "I am accused of bein<- the 
 accomplice of this monster. Is it not frightful ? * * PoHians 
 you are going to believe that when I locked my doorn and shut the 
 windows tight. It s because I feared something. That is o ho 
 reason why 1 acted thus. My chilcen are a prey to so grea a tea? 
 since the death of my poor husband, that 1 hkve been obligal toX 
 so in order to quiet them. ^ 
 
 •; Per.sonally r have no fear; on the contrary, ray greatest 
 
 " JI«PP'ly," continued the widow, " I am well known in the 
 V 1 age as a true and faithful wife. I never did anything without 
 follin- me' ^""''''"''' ""^ '"^ '>"«band never did anything without 
 
 T,.f V '^''•\'J''«"^ because, I suppose, it was God's will that 1 should 
 not say anything," continued Mrs. Lapiante. " To tell the truth I 
 did not know what I was doing the night of the murder. How can 
 
 lomembci all tho circumstances before and alter tho crime 
 n.nn f "V ! ''« . "»'^t frightful thing, in my mind, is that I am 
 accused of having urged young (luillcmain to tho act. -od be 
 thanked, my cons-ience is as easy as on the day of my baptism I n 
 the hrst place I was too old for him. You know that Guillemain 
 fort m'wo'^'"' "" ^^^^ seventeen years old, while I am moi'o than 
 "When I saw my nephew arrive hero," continued the wi.low 
 
 nearhrKf.ir'^\^*'"'/^u.''' ^'''-' '''''^ ^'^^"'^ ho not remain 
 neai his father, who needs his services.' We received a letter from 
 
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 Buldeford saying that Johnny did not like work. When I saw him 
 I ^hof f t to -yne f < The.-e is nomething won./ but said noSng" 
 T „ I * u }^'^^ ^'""^"^''^ established at Biddoford " said Mi s 
 
 1.. 1 "..' '"'™ ''^r' '" " """" »•' "'»"■"> "inoe the murder nf mv h.,. 
 calm' r """"k '" "^''°"' " " "<«""» to "o to'C hat farmZ' 
 
 ;.. ;::et:irrs:;t:5 S;^d^;i^C'iT;^-; itr-z"; 
 
 doIIarslSd a hal??J.^l ''!"""'" l^'' ^'''^ ^' ^^^'^^'^^ from mo two 
 ooiiais and a half to help to pay his passage to Biddoford tho nUnl 
 
 "When the detectives came hero they put the whole hn,iB« 
 topsyturvy; they also burst open Johnny's ttunkwitTonHnH" 
 
 Mn^^" ^t'^®'; *^ preserve the quaintness and the ori-rinalifv nf 
 Jlnrord^:'^'""'^"^-^""^-^^' "^ h-«-Portedtheint'e;;°iow ii^her 
 
 told lahe'draih o'f^I^tSe';^''^^ ''' ^""'^"^^^'^ «^^ ^^^ ^« -« 
 
 yoar-oW iSrl's^d """""' '^ °"^ ^^ *^« ^'^^d^'-' '^^ -gl^^^ 
 not lon^T'"^ ''I'^^^^^ But," continued the child, " ho would 
 
 abouf yt n| Srern' '"' "™"^^' '^* "^ ^'^« --« P-^'-'-« 
 The murderer was born in St. George Eange at about thrflfi 
 38 from the main villaLnv Ho lived with j^ffiliA- - ..° x."}^^? 
 
 States, where the latter had settled about 
 
 :s in the United 
 a year previous. Guille- 
 
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 had arrived t ire o'/athoUnS '"• ""^'''-"^iMr. Laplante, ar.d 
 
 crime. coioners inquest befoi-o ho wa.s .suspected of the 
 
 ih'iG it is: 
 
 follow; !^Mtl:"t'|•'I^lJ:;^;'"=^';'^^-l ^' yearMostified as 
 in^^ here I li^Sl^at Biddof^^ l!'^"" ■ *^"'" ^^'f ^? "^'"- ^^^^'^^'^ <'""'■ 
 year.s. To my kno wSo ^vfv \''''^^ ^ '^•''"-' ''''^'^'^'^ ^^'">"t two 
 wo,-,ls to^.ether A T ,Ts timo^ ''t '''','• '"^'^^''f' "«ver had any 
 
 My aunt was n.'.t hTcIc o n .SaTurcT^^'Inn '-^''^ "^^ ^^^' ""^ ^«''->' "^^«"- 
 goiu- to St IIvicintL r ', . -^ '""'■"'"-'• My uncle said he was 
 
 feitirano.hor ,]■ n' M nclos Z^ ' '''''' "^"^ ditch-di^sin. 
 
 worked until about twwV.^; -^^^^^^^^ wc 
 
 to .he house about noon to o Vh ''" •'^' II^''^^". '^"t returned 
 at two o'clock n.v auntW. . "?'"; ^^''''" ^^ c»"i« l>»ck, 
 
 wood with t he I d e^ 'l; J;"^^ ,^!.;^'' ; - ^'>il<\'-^"V I then s,,li[ 
 Hix o'clo.-k, with the entire km iv r "' V' ''"'"^ ""J^'^^''' "'^'"'^ 
 
 a.Hl was there ^^■henX^ jZL. ''''' ""'^ ^^at evening., 
 
 Laplante was at h me V; """', "' ,'"/^^'^' -''^^'''^'' '■^^' 
 
 body in thi road J ' f.'-''^'^"'' Mr Nadeau. When I saw Ihe 
 
 Nince two o'clock : she scru 1 ] (?,. f1^ r'f ^i^ ""^ "'^^ ^'''^ ''0»'^« 
 noon. One of her co !in« i V ^^"""^ ''^ ^'^^^ '"'"^e in the after- 
 at the house al^^ut^" So k "''''''' "'-n":'*'' ^^^'-^'^'-''^^^'^ '"•■•ived 
 oame in. As soon -i^the odv 7" '^' ' "!""" -''^'" ^^^'•- J-='P>'«i-'« 
 home. I went ry^'' in •^„^;;; '^''^"-^'^^ "' ^h« .Yo-nff K-V ' went 
 Wo will not cnt M-i nfo ' ''''^''■'' ^ "^">'*^'i ^''=^t night." 
 
 ever interes i '/t /ey mLht bo iT""' ^'S''," "^'''""•^ d''''"^''' 1^^'^^- 
 our tale. "^ ^ ^''^ ^''' ^''^'>' -O"'^ destroy the clearne.s8 of 
 
 ren,^rJ;;;:['^;;^i^^'^';l^«-d. the prisoner, full of shame or 
 
 reside. This lo L^iTo; ho ?vnr\' p''*^^ ^''^ P"'-«"tH 
 
 dian polrce to br^ng^l e c f,, ^J,;? «^udlema,n enabled thi Cana- 
 
 ^o through the formalitL o extr.di io ^ oT ' n'",'"'"' ^''^''^ '^ 
 back the youn^r m-m wifh h!^ . ? ' ,V*^*•'^''' ^^"«'"i'"'ne brought 
 
 at St. Ilyacinthe! "" '"'^ '"^^'"^ ^""^ -" ^''« '^«'"mon jail 
 
 anoti?er co.Vss'L*:' h': nS^Lfhe ^'-^d\«-"'™--n -ade 
 over, reli-actintr wh-itho 1 ,?i -^ '^ accomphce without, how- 
 
 ox mysteiy , but it must bo considered that 
 
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 the police of Biddetbnl wo,-o ,.nly bound to render, and did render 
 
 the Canadian police only a passive co-operation. ' 
 
 In his latest confession, Uuillomain not only persisted in hi« 
 
 n^:;^ L^Sel^roJsKlSil^^^ ^^^^ ^'^^ ^^^^^ 
 
 wifh^i*;,rhi '''''^'" '"''•^': ^'^ l''^'^"*' '''« '™"t, he had killed his uncle 
 with one blow of a stick ; then ho took n-om his pocket-book the 
 money It contained. Accord in^^Mo this version his a, nt I adrSred 
 two hundred dollars and had ^iven him only eighty dollar 
 
 Tha.o rumors ran wild at St. Liboire betbi'e the arrest of Guille- 
 mam although but little faith was taken in the story, yet he o 
 alleged accomplices were keenly watched, and an attemp to leave 
 the parish by either of them would have been followed by an an-mt 
 
 Eefoie relating how the accusations of the prisx^ner w^e 
 met, let us see how the accused received them ' 
 
 8torv Anvhn^^'''f^''^^'-''" T'\' "'"''« ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^''« infamous 
 
 fn. ;•. • '^^ .T""' ""'* '^''•' ''"'^"^ ^00 ^'«^'''y to allow any possible 
 
 part cipation m the awful crime. ^ .) possime 
 
 As to Louis Tetreault, it was another thin.r. Ho had been 
 suspected before (iuillemain's accusation. It is True that tJu- sus 
 p.cions entertained were resting on extremely indefinite ground 
 
 it was principally on accoimt of his strained circumstances th-it 
 people were wimg to entertain the idea that he miglVir.nulty 
 Hs possible object would have been to q,propriatethe"sum ofw idi 
 Laplante was bearer on the fateful day. i oi v\ men 
 
 Louis Tetreault lives at a distance from the centre of the villio-e 
 
 cHme ^'"'J'^man was accusing him of participating in the 
 
 "He can say all he pleases," said ho smiling to one who was 
 speaking to h,m about it, '' for myself [ know nothing of thlS 
 except what I heard after the munler, and 1 was one^f^he lilt in 
 the parish to hear of it." Ife added • 
 
 from :iei, ;:^i3^1;:::i^ll""^'"""' *" -^ "^^' -^^ ^ ^my knew him 
 
 ferenc!, Mbo,V;r'' ''"'''• "'^ nianifested the most profound indif- 
 feienre about the accusation of which he was the object and like 
 everybody, would not l-olicve that Guillemam was able youm'/and 
 weak-US he was, to kill his uncle with a single blow ^ " 
 
 On the eighteenih of November, about six o'clock in the aftoi- 
 
 ■rhn r 1^"^ '^P''r^"^* • ^^'- '^'^"^het, accompanieJ by Detcc fvc 
 Lambert, went to f.ouis Tetraulfs in order to search the house 
 before going to Biddefbrd to take possession of thept smiei- Louis 
 
 vis Z n Zr' '''" r^'^^'f'J''""."''^^""^" murmu?and hiiped the 
 visiiors in their snarchoM 4ft<u' h-ivii-- i— i- \ ' ■ . 
 
 house, they found a pocket-book, eon^iin/ng fovt"dc5l^ hiddei! 
 
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 this money. Totrault Zwerl . J^ T "'K'^*^ ^^"^ ^« ^'^'^e by 
 that it was in his no ^eS fo.M h ' r''""^'^,^ *° '"" ^^t^^^'- ""d 
 of the rent of a LKrT ,- ,f„l •' t.mo only, being the amount 
 of Tetrault conSei'thiT^ty ^'"^""^' '" ^"^ '"^'^'^'•- ^he father 
 
 had It^efn'^ElTdiS'C'ifff ''?.'"-^"«^ ^'^^ them; they 
 or. ThiBwanthes ueofi^"sTtfh<^7^^ 
 
 While waiting for rarriva af s T 7"-^'''''T"" ^^'^ ^'-re^ted. 
 confronted with the two nl^nn .^^-.^l^^^''^' '^"'1 ospecially when 
 people who kl'ew Gui bmuin be"ln to inl' r ""f^ i'^ complicity, the 
 it beca.ne known lh^t5^HZiuTZ.T^^^ ^'' ^'''""^ ''f^i then 
 was in reality ; azy ZhS wohT'"'"^'' '^"'^ ^"''^^^^'^^ 
 years old. It was foJnd ou ?h i>'fi- 1' ?' '"""IP' ^"ly ««ventoen 
 thorn in the side , "hi« L? / ^'.^'^''^ r^'^"'' '^'^^'^ hehad been a 
 
 scandal of the neigLboSood ' "''''' '^""^ ''^« ^^^"^ **»•'! ^^^ 
 
 ford ?^'Nole'E:f"^„''lf ''\V'''V"r^^'"" «^"" ^-- B'^d- 
 calculated.otlHwnr.ht^l^.T^ " '?"' ^'" ■■«^^''*1 '"'^"y things 
 
 came to St. LlL^^^ell^lKgSrm: n^'-d ^'l^r ^r'"^'"''^ 
 he was a model votuur m.,,7 , ,, ^ """'"^ «> » "' to all appearance 
 
 trial of the young man torthcora.ng until the 
 
 What did Sy u "l anDv hiban d 1,1 ""''"»/ "'"'''"" <!» ^ y"" ? 
 
 
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 made rne a widow by depriving mo of him whom T loved so tenderly • 
 not only d.d you mnke thene poor children fatherleBs; not only arc 
 you expoHing u« to the direst poverty, but you arc tryin.r to mal e 
 me out as guilty as you,-is not such conduct abominable? " 
 in hZ^^. ^"T T'^lu ^^"'. apostrophized the prisoner without a tear 
 forJibk^^ Th i,'";'.^^ "" righteous indignation that struck the officers 
 loicibly Ihe children who listened to this outbreak were shrieking 
 and sobbing as if their hearts would break. ^ 
 
 he satd^"^' ^"'"*'*"'''° "^^^ unmoved ; after a short silence, however, 
 
 " ^ol my aunt, it is not true, T could not accuse you of com- 
 plicity, since you are guiltless. All. the stories told about this murder 
 aie lies. No, my aunt, here, in the presence of tho constable and his 
 companions I declare that you are innocent. I beg your pardon for 
 the evil I have wrought you," ' 
 
 out JI;.^?S-r wT- ^.^^'^."^te of this declaration, and in order to 
 To to Loul^'Eiu's"'""""' ''^^ "'^"^ ^"^ immediately after to 
 
 «nd T^nf.i^T^*? it was not late, everybody .eemed to have retired, 
 and Louis Tetrault s house was in complete darkness. After havinff 
 taken counsel of his companions Detective Lambert said to Guille- 
 ,^/l' Vn^' Jrj Pi!" '"'r'- te" Tetrault that yon escaped from the 
 
 i:L'?hetiX" '^""" "'"''' "' ^"' ^"'^ "^"^^'^ 
 
 ^^^Zi^^'^^^'^'S agreed nj^on the three officers placed themselves so 
 as not to lose one word of the interview. 
 
 rrnt f "1"®'"^'" knocked at the door, and almost immediately 
 Tetrault opened the door, having a light in his hand. ^ 
 
 I., ,.^"'^«'^*"^ d'^ "ot have time io recite the fable dictated to him 
 b> the officers. At the hrst words he was stopped by Tetrault who 
 burst out with : " Get out of here, you wretch or 111 choke you !'' 
 The detective had imagined this very clover scene, hoping that 
 letrault.if really guilty, would give himself away by hoping his 
 accomplice to escape. i b "'" 
 
 We have just seen how the murdei-er was received 
 At this moment Guillemain attemi»ted to ran away- the officers 
 ranj^n pursuit and only succeeded in stopping him by threatening to 
 
 He was brought back to Tetraulfs house and there he renewed 
 his donunc.ation, introducing a variation, however. In this last vor- 
 Bion he declared Telrauh to be not an accomplice but the real author 
 of the crime According to this last story Guillemain ^-vve himself 
 
 S 11 tsn f"^^ ^'^'f •''^^'''' T"^^ """^ ^"^ ^»^^ ^^^^ Tetrault had given 
 film !fc«0 to keep his mouth snut. 
 
 H...„^''r'^'^^'^i""^-'?H Tetrault's denials Guillemain persisted in his 
 declaration and said he had hid the money in a tin bo.x placed in a 
 corner of Laplanle s .stable, whore it was Ibund in ucoordauco with 
 nis statement. 
 
2S 
 TotrtuhZ^I"- ^^'^P^^^ice officers wore incredulous, thoy arrested 
 
 q..eii'o" ':'",!„ ;.'4r"Tr'' ;'';;'"■"."'" 'i-'"" "> '™«-"'« 
 t,,o,»..uoi...,„n,,oi.;,,»v;::i:i^v;o;;!,u 
 
 Jho trial w,ll „ow furnish the .lotnils of thjs »ad nanativo. 
 
THE CRIME AT ST. CANUT. 
 
 nnhlKtf' \m>-'''"^ or November, lS97,the Montreal nowspapern 
 published tJie followiiii;- desputch : 
 
 _ " St. SoiioLAfiTiQUE, (^ue., Nov. 22.-Tiie (lend body of Isidore 
 
 Poinerjomer bvMrodo,<)l\St. Canut,u snuill villajre.itualed at about 
 hvc miles Irom here, was discovered in hi.s house to-day, his throat 
 cut Irom ear to ear, and the corpse literally bathed in blood. 
 lie was known to have been alone in the house from Sunday cven^ 
 ing, his wito having, ^one to visit her family a lew miles aWay in 
 St. Canut parish. Probably a suicide. Poirier had no nhildren 
 ino coroner has been nolitied." 
 
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 at R;fwdt^?„ts?Lti';: c'sr ^'j r^'^i^y ^^^ --- 
 
 Besi.lcs, this newH Hoomed dmoH o'Lr'^''^f "^"^^ ^'^'"^'^ "'^«««d. 
 hoiT.).vs uttendini,. the other ovc'^f^ "O importance compared to tho 
 after that the horrible ruhTv"1;n '^''' ^"^'^ " ^""P'« ^^ days 
 easily to be nndei-.slood. '''^"' "■^'^^'"^' »* consternation 
 
 each'ofle'' •' ^'-^'^-' -•'•'-0' " Bald the horror-stricken people to 
 
 three'!,rr::H"::,^it ho'nTbll'tb'"^,' 'T'^ ">' ^'»'- -eks, 
 community. Has annidemir ir •'" u^'^ ."^*^'^'"' ''^^ *^tarticd the 
 ^ Alas i the .^rime o7 8t CanL'"'"' ^?''''" ^^"'' ^^^ ^^-^^t'T ? 
 first thought. • ^^""^ ^^« y«fc °iO'-e horrible than at 
 
 Here are the facts : 
 
 some t:Z ^cS;;-''tm r/him'^r "• 'r *''"^«- ^^-'* - - ^and. 
 He had been maSd t^^\^^^"';^'^ -i^l^fe'^ of St. Cuaut. 
 
 and had no children Ooj-deha Viau about seven years, 
 
 r^^o:tZl7ZVI'r:Z!^^^^^^^ '''' - -''ty the 
 
 he was not always abllTo hide '1p, i-T" %F-'"'' ^"^' '^^ pain that 
 at, therefore, that, iroiSer to Zwn v ^^ ^^ ''•°^' ^'^ ^^ wondered 
 
 we]lSugil^;.p^":^^;^J-: '-^ a pleasing figu,., was pretty 
 
 If this woman L mT.S anvon« hiir'^ ^''f "" •'"'« Hght-h'eaded^ 
 been happy and Se he. Y„ K , V"" '^'''■^'"'''"' ^^'^ ^ou'd have 
 constantlVa8piHm.To botto^ h., ''^t^^'Pf'^- ^« '<^ ^a«. «he was 
 her neighUrsomewhat h ' X^^^ ^"^ ''«•• ^ehavio; toward 
 
 fellowship. She wL the o "fni IV^th^' vuS 'Ji '^f "^ .'^^ ^^^^ 
 It over the people of St P-m,. • ^'^^ ^'"^ge church and lorded 
 susceptibility^ Moreover' htrL^, a manner that wounded their 
 proacKhadprovTed^S meronsp" "'*' T'^'^i ^'^^ "'^^ ^^ove rl 
 
 so far as to'ask the curate TevT'p'"- ,^'"'^'« ^^'^ «^«" g'^°« 
 the parish. ' -"^'^- ^- -Pinault, to expel her fi-om 
 
 From this it will be spph fl^of tu^ 
 
 drama yt ^^ «" ! ^'^^ ^h'"^' ^^e characters of the actors in this 
 labore-, of S? Cafut a h«r'i ' ''''""^^am Parslow. He was a 
 lation. ' UnhappUy foj him h? '"^'•^'"^' .'^" "^^'^^'^ «f '^e popu 
 domineered b/ffi P, n^e vvom.r' ^f'/.^d let himself 'be 
 violent passion. This pas.ion sc/n '-.I ? ^'"^ '"'J^'''"'^ '" ^^''"^ a 
 chiefly 4out this that fhe cti"at^ hid ho "^^^^ P««P'«' '^"d it was 
 it was, the curate only paid sS anln? " T'''^'^ "''"'■'«''°- As 
 pure gossip, and did C bS evo Tf Z ' "' ^' considered 
 authority, it least in hisTf^cial c^pac y^'^'^*^''^ ^« '"^«'-Po«o his 
 
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 We now suflaciently know the actors in this drama to bcL'in the 
 narrative of the crime. 
 
 As we advance in the tale, the actions of the two principals in 
 the drama will reveal us more about the character than any bio- 
 graphy we might write at this moment. 
 
 It was Monday morning, the 22iid of November, 1897, that the 
 corpse of Isidore Poirier was discovered. The circumstances were 
 as follows : 
 
 On that day, Mrs. Poirier came back from her father's, where 
 she had passed the night ; according to her story, she had left her 
 husband at home, drunk. On her return she ha<l tried to open the 
 door of her hoi-.se. Finding it locked, she thought that her hunband 
 had already left the house to go to St. Jerome, where he was engaged 
 in building a church. Not thinking the matter of any moment, she 
 then went to the Church of St. Canut, where a marriage was going 
 on, ai.d played the organ for the ceremony. At the conclusion of 
 the service she beiook herself to Mr. Bouvrette's, related these facts 
 to him and requested his help to enter her house. 
 
 Her neighbor, Mr. Bouvrelte, obligingly followed her, and, 
 entering the house through a window with "the assistance of the 
 woman, he easily opened the door fiom the inside. 
 
 "While you are here," said Mrs. Poirier to him, "I beg of 
 you to go into the sleeping room ; I cannot go there, I am afraid." 
 
 Mr, Bouvrette opened the door of the sleeping room, and there, 
 stretched across the bed, he discovered the body of Isidore Poirier 
 who had his throat cut from ear to ear. ' 
 
 Mrs. Poirier, who had followed him, then shrieked out, with an 
 fierce yell of terror : 
 
 " Ah I the unfortunate man has committed suicide." 
 
 Then she cried like an insane person, art'ectiiig the utmost 
 despair. 
 
 Mr. Bouvrette, who was very much moved himself, tried to 
 calm her, and, succeeding without much trouble, he went with her 
 to his hous.'. Madame Poirier would not go back to her house after 
 that. 
 
 Mr. Bouvrette then went to the curate, who in turn sent for the 
 coroner. 
 
 At first everybody believed in a case of suicide ; this opin- 
 ion, however, did not last after the examination made by Doctors 
 Lamarcho of St. Scholastique and Henri Provost of St. Jerome. 
 The wounds of the victim had been made with a large kitchon knifei 
 rather dull. There were seven wounds, of which we give the de- 
 scription in the words of the physicians who were appointed legally 
 to hold an examination and autopsy of the corpse. 
 
 The first wound, two inches long and four lines deep, divides 
 the chin in two parts. Another starts from the upper lip and 
 extends to the left ear. The third extends transversely to the 
 middle part of the loft mastoid. The fourth stre; hing from one 
 of the mastoidian apophyse to the other, measures eleven inches in 
 
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 hoiTiMo ofall. ' ^'"»""'- -Ifiw IS tlie most hideous und 
 
 Tl>i. wound alonl W;l;:^:^caS'p S-'s ^u litil '"'' ^'^'""-• 
 
 with the fi nt irtholnV';:""^' '''V'■^ '?r"^ ^^ ^avo bVoa n u e 
 quarter, ot a„ inch w .To T^"^ '^^^^^ '^'"i "''•««> 
 
 p-^coofa'::in;:;iL;^t t;^':;jfcr'^^ ^'^ '^^^'"^''^^'-^^ ^^^ 
 
 «t.-n/g?e ttvcl'^'h^v?ofi^'"'TVr '"'■'*'''^'^^'« ^'■''^''■^ «^' •'^ ^'i"'-^t 
 
 li.-.^e dark rod st nl' It it foot oJu^^h 'r'''''f'"^'.^?"^^''^'^ ^^'^^^' 
 seemed to indicito th-it nf n ? !,''"'^ '•' ''""' '^^ clotted hlood 
 
 terrible blovr ft wl;lb.bvt..^.'f?. H'", ^''"^''^ ^^^ ^•«««i^«^l ^ 
 thr<,at of his Vic i^ Zm o > ,^ ll ^''^r-*'" ,"!«''^^''«'' ''^^ ^"t the 
 
 oil c.,,,1.1 b«fi„;,"ro,°.['rz • "' " ""» °"'i"y' "">' "» "■"- "f 
 
 clonei"'!;^o'S!.r2;"boinS"t^V'i"T"^'^^«'^'^:'^^« ^^'^ ^« I- '^•-"- 
 di..ovor thoZ£J^ S.^^^'t''^' It .-caainod lor the jK.lice to 
 diulely. "'"'"^'^^- ^oioner Mig-nault sot upon thistasic imme- 
 
 Samlt^sbt^a'\;:;;iw^ '"'^"" ^'^^'f ''f ^^^'^-^ Placo on Sunday. 
 tl.e h<>;se at i^e hou e o urv"f "' ''^ ^^^^ ^'''' ''''' huruossin^. 
 
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 It was evident that the Poirier woman and Sam Parslow cnnhl 
 
 [K Mr BoZ^lT'trr- ^«"°^«'-' before p'ocoidng '^ h 
 tnem, Mi. Bouvretto had boon interrogated, and h« Und tnU tv!! 
 coroner the facts related above, about tL discovery of he' corpse 
 Some neighbors were then questioned; they had seen PoiHor 
 
 Here is his declaration : 
 
 " ?" ^^l d«y of tho death of Isidore Poirier, I remained at hi« 
 We the whole afternoon until four-thirty. I wilUeTl the t. .,f i 
 The dead man stopped me before mass. I s^aw h^ had been d"nt 
 hS ^l^f T^^^'J'^y S^^^'^'S y^M-hke. Itookaddnkwkh 
 him. He had a bottle of whiskey in the house almost fulhnTi^ 
 was certainly well nigh drunk then. I then wenUo m^ 'where ? 
 
 S" ftriinn^e?'Tft" ' '"^' with Poirier. and w'eS Ino'ther 
 
 orinK attei dinner. After vespers we had another drink to-ether 
 
 While I was there no one came to the house. At half mst fom-^r int; 
 
 home, where I found my brother and my oW mother I ohir^ 
 
 my clothes, and I then Vent to one of my broK^Vn a carri!^ 
 
 driven by my nephew. Willie Parslow. It was six o'dock when^? 
 
 ax-nved at my brother's, who resides about one and a halFmSes 
 
 away. I stopped up until nine o'clock, then went to bed only mv 
 
 brother and my stepmother were there. I got up or MouSlI 
 
 morning about six o'clock and did the chores at my bS-^ 
 
 where I stayed since Wednesday last. Mrs. Poirier stonned It^ti 
 
 brother's at about eight o'clock in the morning 3 askTme i?I 
 
 could drive her husband to St. Jerome. I answfred yes O^Ldv. 
 
 !^^«Jl^L^7Ti:'"*f' ^ ^^^^'^^^^ **»« «»^^«ers of Po rier's LiL; 
 were closed. I then thought that both him and his wife had left for 
 
 of th^eTuTcide.' "'"*"'" J3ouvrette'« and there I lear'nfthe net 
 corpsl?* ""^ ^'' ^^•'^"^"^ ^1^« told me how he had discovered the 
 
 "I did not enter Poirier's house after his death because th*. 
 doors were locked and the priest would let no one enter 
 
 I..A id t^^^ T* ^^ ?°^ ^®y «^ *b^* b*^'^^® at this moment. I have 
 had the key when Poirier and his wife went to St. Jerome or eke 
 where, and I gave it back to them on their return. I never entered 
 
 SL^'Th' "W^^^^t^ \^fy- My relations with the coupl were 
 these : When Poirier needed my services he asked me, and I heTn^ 
 
 MTB. Jr-oinei and me. I never stayed there the entire nieht I 
 never made any present to Mrs. Poirier except a breast p"n worth 
 half a dollar. On the night of the eighth of November I s'leot at 
 home. I went to Mr Poirier'- onltr nn h.-u .■^'"'^°'""*'\' \ »/ept at 
 VT uii lei ^ only on bUBiucss. I worked for him. 
 
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 T^irTfT" ^■^'''"' ? .^""^'.edgo of what wont on at the inquest. 
 1 am ot the opinion that Poirier committed suicide, because he has 
 to . njo It was hi8 intention 1x> kill himself. Once in particular he 
 said to mo : 1 am completely discouraged ; my businL is bad ; 1 
 ara in debt everywhere, and I hardly earn enough to live on I ^m 
 going to wait a little while longer and if things do not change fo^ 
 the be tor 1 will arrange otherwise. A man living as I live would 
 be better oti if he was dead.' " e^ "" ^ »'v« woma 
 
 Pn..«U.l*lf r'^f^ f ^^^ Interrogatory, Coroner Mignault showed to 
 Farslow the knife found in the • - -a of the victim 
 
 " Have you neon this knii ut Poirior's ? " 
 
 Parslow looked at the knife, without moving a muscle of his 
 countenance, and answered : » uio 
 
 " 1 never saw this knife, neither at Poirior's or any other place." 
 
 It Ks to be remarked that suspicions wore already hanging over 
 
 Parslow s head, and the coroner had told him so, adding : '' 1 wa.^ 
 
 you that all you say may serve against you later. You are not com- 
 
 pelled to speak, but all your declaration will be noted " 
 
 ihus it 18 seen that already fiom the beginning of the inquest 
 suspicions were rife against Parslow and the Poiri?r womai^ The 
 ^tter had long been the subject of gossip and of secret reprobation. 
 Her conduct, so thoughtless as to be almost scandalous, made her 
 odious to the population. 
 
 .LbnnMfTwr ^u"" "^""'^«':^«'^'"« ^nown, there was but one opinion 
 W^l- 1 ^K»?''"u^^f'''"*Se -unanimously she was thought to 
 have killed her husband, or to have bad him killed by her lover 
 
 Ihus it was that from the beginning of the search public 
 opinion designated the two as the true criminals. 
 
 Let U8 see why such was the case. 
 
 Mrs. Poivier was the organist of the village chui-ch, her hus- 
 band directed the choir, and Sara Parslow was one of the best 
 singers under him. It was no doubt due to this fact that an 
 
 ln.'f f ^ T""/ 7 ^;^'^?'' ^^™ ^°^ ^^«- I'^i^ier. The acquaint- 
 ance had already lasted three years when the drama took place. 
 In the very begmmng of their relations, Isidore Poirier went to the 
 btates to work. In his absence his wife kept company with Sam 
 openly, disdaining the good advice of her husband's friends Last 
 spring Isidore Poirier returned home, and was not long in finding 
 out the true state of aflairs. Home quarrels followed, which at on? 
 time threatened to divorce husband and wife. 
 
 At that time the discord between the two was the talk of the 
 town Unhappily Poirier was meek and good-natured : he did not 
 insist upon his rights and his wife came out victorious that is to 
 say continued to receive Sam openly at her own house. Poirier 
 made the best of it, and received Sam as a friend, forgetting all the 
 grievances he had against him. g » !-"« 
 
 f.,. +?'t?'"v^J' ei^': ^^l ^y ^""^^ ^ carriage-maker. Before leaving 
 for the United States he was foreman in an important carriagt 
 ^hop. He was generally liked by his fellow-men. It is denied thit 
 
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 he wuH a drunkard or that l.o ill-treatod his wife. Ho had en the 
 
 :?rKiKeTtl' ^^'"^^'•' ^°' ''''' -- -^-^^«^»^ ^*- -- 
 
 Sam was also well thought of in tho parish. He was a temner- 
 
 tTeSr?""'' h«8 intimacy with Mrs. Poirier had^everTeen 
 the object of scandal-mongor-s. "«»oi uwu 
 
 qar.'^Sn^T™"''"'^ '^^l''^"' '*'^«'^ ««^«'*'*' days. After tCBtifyinc 
 Sam. Parslow seemed very uneasy; ho attended tho sittints how 
 ever and endeavored to icoop as /ood a countenance as poSe 
 On Thursday it was Mrs. Poirier's turn to testify 
 Following are the exact words of hor deposition :_" Last 
 Sunday my husband and I got up at about seven o'clock mv 
 husband did tho chores while I was preparing breakfas? He 'wSt 
 out and 1 asked h.m not to be long as breakfast was ready iL 
 haok n'nTfP'"^' to Bouvretto's to got a tobacco press. Z'camo 
 back, and after pivBssing some tobacco he took his breaSast and 
 washed himself. While breakfasting I noticed that hTK Wn 
 dnnking and I told him, ' You have^oen dHnkiig'' He said yes 
 ^,lh V^? went to the stable to fetch the bottle.^ He7aid ho hTd 
 nauch hard work during tho week and ho wanted to brace up lie 
 struck his cup so hard in the saucer that he broke it savin.? whie 
 
 end to It. Ho took another drink, and asked me to drink with 
 him. 1 refused. He made a good breakfast. 'hik wiin 
 
 hnJ^Jtu'^^''^u'' i"^'." aftorwarda. After mass Sam Parslow came 
 theTwTL'Jint^'^' ^"' '''''''' ^ ^°"P^« of drinks togetC: 
 "My husband did not oat much. He was crvinrr After dinnm- 
 wo sat down on the sofa. Mr. Hall knocked at ^he^door t£en and 
 I to d my husband to go and lie down. I opened the do.'i fo,'- Mi 
 Hall, and my husband came out of his room. He 'treated ' mJ: 
 
 "Sam Parslow came to our house at about half-nast ono but h« 
 did not stay. My husband went to lie down on the bed and I went 
 to vespers. During vespers I asked Sam to cotae and hitch up mv 
 r/"n- ,II«««™« through the roar and hitched up I then w^n^ 
 out and asked Sam not to come in. but to unhitch the mare Mv 
 husband then came out to tell me I should go to my fethoT's therf 
 sTbl'tottchTboTtle'^of -"P F^" ^y h-baff wen^'to'Tht 
 rytln^a^rtrth^e'lo Z^ZZl^tTll T' ^"1 
 
 wltTm^/LJC '' overshoes^harclVaVJS:rttn 
 „. » "•' 'iSfPR,** "" "'* »' my father's, and left there about half 
 
 Ew"pS1^„.vT"'l^.™Sr.'^r^ '""^ a„/^w al,'?^e 
 — _a„ puuea ao,yn. i i^no;;kod ac the trout and back doorsj not 
 
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 tj fetch your mare to sh^ W^our hiVaSd to J ' ' ?°^ /^^°^ 
 then ten minutes past eight T dirf w fii ^ ^^ ™®- ^^ ^as 
 and fetch my mar?. iStfr that I went ^i^"' ?^"r**« '"^ SO 
 mass I returned home. I did not hlv^ t K^i,^ ^^^u"'"*;^' *"d a^^r 
 ieft it with my hushand. ^BlvrTtt.t ^.^^ ''^^S^ ^«"««5 I ^ad 
 knocked at th^o windows w^ie Iwas awaT'lT"^ *V' ^T' ^^^ 
 bring a screwdriver in order to u^fas^rfLLJ-^" ^^^^ ^^ ^ 
 «o. He then opened the window and «nflw.u''l!' ^^^' ^e did 
 him to open the door. AfSeWdn^-T"^ ^'''"^- ^ ^'''^ 
 put down my music books I do no? ° "^ T^* ^°*° t'^^ ^^use to 
 Bouvrette to go and see where tTV'^T^J'^'' ^^^^°g ««ked Mr. 
 
 somebody.' I went wU^&m Ttaw^K^l^^^^ Ij^m going to get 
 bed. „I do not know whether th^ ?r'o? t^h^ t^m^rop^ t 
 
 ^ Sil^rsfh^a^'l^rarrnrn^ot H- 
 
 do not think anybody can entfiv f?!'>,/ ^°°' ^®® ^^"^ go «"*• I 
 
 must be opened frSm^ins?de ^' ^"^"^ ^"^^^«- The door 
 
 Q. Did Parslow have a key of your house? 
 
 o-gat o'r Z '^^^; ?LS°8 *<> ^^^ »„ the table or oa tKe 
 
 Thel«ttimeI,awit,it™te^?„k,nr„'„1lTi"'' "»' "' "• 
 
 of which has heen t^en awav a o& S f°' ■' """'''• *« riDg 
 red handkei-chief epotted ™th „h?f- fl "'"" "■ ""■">» Pi»«<». i 
 tobacco pouch a»d tUTe/rf a"™^k The' l^T"' ° '^^y' « 
 these objects as having belonied t/Jk^r.. r """««» recognized 
 said the woman, " wm ^customed t^ i- ''"'''?''<'■ " >iy husland," 
 supper time, abiut™ Sk " ^ "°'' '"' "'""'■ "^"'y « V at 
 
 by th?h1.nd's;r'ttn"%Tnl;^rt°s?'«T«; '^'-l'""'' ^k"™ 
 found this must be the Sme ."thfc'h'it'etopt^d"™ ''"'"""' """ 
 
 mo^in' ^Tt"",: «„ri^:;'tratc£>T -\ «-■"- 
 
 articles were in perfect ordeT" "^ '^''^"' **i®8« ^^ 
 
 ^' SS ^oThtt^dT^'^Sl.^, irS7'°* '"""^ ' ^ 
 
37 
 
 «. ^- ItX^^'t *^^ '''°' f *2^^^- This policy was issued by the 
 Standai-d Life Ins. Co.. and was payable to myself. 
 
 Q. Do you know that public rumor has it that Sam Parslow is 
 your lover ? 
 
 A. I do not know that. 
 
 Q, How is it that Sam Parslow could enter your house at any 
 time, day or night, m the absence of your husband ? Did you not 
 yourself, ask him to come in ? ^ ' 
 
 A. I stopped Sam Parslow when I needed him to run errands 
 tor me, to go to the post-office and other places. 
 
 Q. Did you ever allow Sam Parslow to kiss you? 
 A. No, never. 
 
 Q. Did you not "blow him kisses" with your hand when he 
 was passing by the house ? 
 
 A. No, never. 
 
 Q. To what cause do you attribute the death of your husband? 
 
 A. To himself. I did not know him to have any enemies. 
 Moreover he told me several times he wanted to commit suicide 
 Ihe first time it was six months after our marriage : he said he did 
 not earn enough money and he wanted to end it all. The second 
 time was when he came back from California, where he had been 
 eighteen months. He haxl two notes to meet and had no money; 
 he was discouraged and told me he wanted to make an end of it. 
 
 Q. In case your husband has really been murdered, have vou 
 any reason to suspect anybody ? »vo ^uu 
 
 A. I do not know anything about that. 
 
 With these words endod the testimony of the Poirier woman 
 Already suspicions rested against her, or at least as to her 
 pretended ignorance of the exact cause of her husband's death, or of 
 the murderer. She was nevertheless interrogated as an ordinary 
 dlose^" ^^^^ °° warned that she could answer or not as she 
 
 ^ If the woman's testimony is read attentively, the main impres- 
 
 Whl'H. f 'Sf ^r^u- ''?-T^ *° ''''«" «"'«^<^« ^ ^he cause of^her 
 husbands death. This did not escape the notice of the detectives 
 who began to suspect her strongly from this time forth. ' 
 
 AH the other witnesses that were heard gave testimony of such 
 a nature as to strengthen the suspicions against the woman and 
 Sam Parslow. From this moment the two were not lost sight of a 
 single moment, and the case was placed in the hands of Detective 
 McOaskill, who had just operated so successfully in the Eawdon 
 
 A small detail to note by the way. At the instance of Rev. M. 
 Pmauit, the curate the Poirier -.voman claimed her husband's 
 corpse and asked M, Gilbert Lau-n, who was just going to St 
 Jei-ome on business, to buy her a coffin and to buy it m cheap as 
 
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 family. ' ^ ^ '* '"'*^"^ ^'^ ^ho care of the dead m^n's 
 
 the S^^::i:'^i:^z t^^^ir- '^ 'v^^^^^^ -*« 
 
 to Mr. Bouvrette'8, where Mrs PolS. wn^""?"^'" ^'«°^"'' *« go 
 interrogate her in private ZstnLV-' '^""VP^^S, in order to 
 also tofnquire into^ he w^y she msSZ ? '"'Vf ^^^•"*"^«' ^^^ 
 
 at the"^/qut^ rCect: ScSuf ' tX" V? ^^^sf -e^te's 
 and she said to me- 'Mr M,Vn«nU There I saw Mrs. Poirier 
 
 home and fetch Tme clothe?? ?' '^° ^°" "°.* ''"^^ ™« ^ go 
 dresses for the chrthat fam'br 0^1^%'^'^.^!?'^^' «^^ 
 Mrs. Poirier's mother's.) I answefed\ef " ' 41 "^ n'^"^ '' "'"'^ ^* 
 me and we will so together- nnthL t ' ^ ^'"^ '^®"' «0"i« ^'th 
 
 private and thefearool^nTpe^^lAeT^^ *^ ''''' ^« ^^ - 
 
 •' is^n* ^s wrw^^^e^tsr ^I^:i^' :: -%-^ '^^.^''-■ 
 
 are accused by everybody thevnlfJ^ her: 'Mrs. Poirier, you 
 with Sam PaiJlow • tffis known l^,^ ^'°p had unlawful relations 
 to deny. Will y^, Xa ' tdl n« K^'' ^^'*- /V' "««'««« fo'" JO" 
 twenty-first of Novembe wL ^^""^ y^"" ^'^ «" Sunday, the 
 
 evening?' She answered^^Tw'"ff^^ ""'"^ '^^ ^'^'^^'^ i" tl»e 
 Binge^pon^tre:^^^^^^ accompany the 
 
 her hotf ^SeXeV^sltritllZer T'"'-''' ''' ^-^' ^^ 
 door of the room where tZ m„..7i: * ^''. ^"'i^^ng near the 
 
 the corpse had nJ yet been^l T ^""'«,'»'*ted, from which 
 
 she nodded afflVmSvely IHfted T\ I" *'"''^?" *« "^^ q"««tio« 
 say to he? ^" '" '"""^ '''' "S^^"^' ^^at I still had something to 
 
 moml^t';ht'7e1ter.ed"out"f the* h""^ \^'l'- ^' *^« -^^ 
 tolling. Each srolStt bell soundinrrdlv' "^'f ^«" '^^g*^ 
 air like a sob.seemed to awaken an eZ InLl ^^^/^P '"^'""^"g 
 and I «aw abundant tear! roll down h«'-'^->'^^'^^^^^ 
 tmuetbeeonversationi thL' :sk^X'"wttu .Voteln'-^ 
 account of your doings that Sunday afternoon? ' "^"°*^ 
 
39 
 
 and 
 
 " Before she began to talk I told her she could remain silent if 
 she chose. She said, ' As soon as I came out from vespers I 
 came homo, then I left to go to father's.' 
 
 " She would say no more. 
 
 " Again and again I urged her to confess having participated in 
 the murder. I was telling her that her guilt was evident, and that 
 sooner or later the truth would be known. A score of times she 
 seemed to be on the verge of speaking. She would stop in front of 
 me and seem to form a supreme decision, still the confession would 
 expire on her lips, 
 
 " Finally I asked her point-blank, while looking her straight in 
 the face : 
 
 " 'Are you guilty, yes or no ? ' 
 
 " ' No,' she answered. 
 
 " I asked again, ' Is Sam Parslow guilty ? ' 
 
 " She denied again, and said : ' Tho stories told about Sam 
 Parslow and I are false. He is not my lover.' " 
 
 The woman would not add another word, notwithstanding all 
 the coroner's urging. 
 
 The coroner, however, basing his decision upon the testimony 
 heard at the inquest and upon the discrepancies in the statements of 
 the two principal witnesses, Sam Parslow and Cordelia Viau, widow 
 of the late Isidore Poirier, concluded that there was sufficient proof 
 to authorize the arrest of these two persons ; accordingly, the 
 detective went in his turn to Mrs. Bouvrette's, and there said to 
 Mrs. Poirier : 
 
 " Madame, however painful ray duty may be, I must accom- 
 plish it without fear or favor. After hearing the evidence at the 
 inquest I am compelled to arrest you, as I suspect you of not being 
 foreign to the death of Isidore Poirier, your husband." 
 
 Hearing these words, the Poirier woman became pale as death. 
 Her features contracted and her eyes reflected the expression of an 
 exceeding fear. This emotion soon passed away, however; she soon 
 became calm again and said with a decided air, " It is well." 
 
 The Chief Constable Brazeau, was in the meanwhile proceed- 
 ing to the arrest of Sam Parslow, who was living at his brother 
 George's house. 
 
 When Sam saw the officer he smiled sadly and asked : 
 
 " What is new ? " 
 
 The Chief Constable answered: 
 
 " Sam, I have this morning received orders to arrest you." 
 
 " 1 was expecting this," said Sam simply. " I am ready to foj 
 
 you. 
 
 I'eady to follow 
 
 The Chief Constable then handcuffed Sam and said, " Come." 
 
 Then followed a pathetic scene. 
 
 Until that time Sam Parslow had remained unmoved. When, 
 however, the time came for him to bid farewell to his mother, 
 brothers and sisters ; when the time came for him to leave this 
 house where he passed his happy infancy and careless youth, where 
 

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 recollections, tlion apnroachin ° l,i=^^& • " ,"""' " ""''W of 
 
 gui..;''a°„!l':Lv7m^;^^,-;:L'l'°°"-°'«''-k'<' ^ou; I am „„t 
 St. Soholastiquo "°"'""' "'"' »" '»" togethor (or 
 
 poi.I'bStThe ;;ffl *:ptr;™ ror^cr-^ "'* «- 
 
 to any question. Wjien thcv a.TirS 2 .(, ■ ' ""^'^ '" »»"«""• 
 wa.fl.jily convinced .he 3d ;L™."„fei'^''''°"' "" "'""='"' 
 
 .pp.prnd*'Sop:^:rooKziu r^'icc^-- ''^'■ 
 
 hera^rtf '"■•''°"="""' «*■"«", "bo oame'tmediately ,o 
 her Se° sit''""''"' """"'"• '"*°"' ""yi-foO notion, commenced 
 
 mo„tl?„^„'^.?b^J:,^i,7aTe'v„l'v!lldTol5"±'!;''''^^ "«- 
 
 Iw„.WnS.c..n«n,^ I waraS of the lS:^ToTdWm''°„' "^f 
 
 gel arrested o j (,he spot. *" "'°^' ^^ will 
 
 "I'Wt w^eek Sam sharpened a knife savino- . < t 
 rid yop. of him, even if I lose my head for ir LJ ^\Somg to 
 Btaned to go t<^ ray father's and Ififr^o!^ i ^"."f a^ afternoon I 
 When I c\me ba^l tw tTat t shTdef wLe" pullS^ t^'^^'i 
 knev. then that Sam bad accomplished the deT" ^ '^^'^"- ^ 
 
 ^r^'^^l^""' '''' ''' ^"'-•- — might deny her 
 
 dark'e;^!^^!?^^ -: ^:^^:^Xi:it^^^ ''^' "P ^" ^ 
 ^ appeared satisfied and said «' Ihat's good •' 
 
 Ohie?'jont'SXrn Totid^e'SXetS' a"'*?""" ""^ 
 private office of the judge ^^lemselves behind a curtam in the 
 
 almo^w^^rd^^frr w^oifif nT '^' ''''^.' «*>« -P-ted 
 
 this time in the heaitg of he two Office «' wh?!^"' ''^''^^'^^^ 
 of the interview ''^ '"^^ ^^^^eis, who took copious notes 
 
 but apparently unaware that she had npoken beZ^witnesses " ' 
 
 had h1ml'':!.S?r Ih t-'"' ""^^"k"'" ««"* ^- aam STow and 
 mm Dr....fe{).. t^ the same room, where (Joi-oner Migneault made 
 
 1 f!.' 
 
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 him acquainted with the confession of Mrs. Poirier. To this end 
 he made use of the notes he had taken while hid behind the curtain, 
 which read as follows : 
 
 " Sam Parslow killed my husband with a butcher knife. The 
 knife belonged to my husband. 
 
 " Parslow and 1 wanted to kill my husband ever since New 
 Year's Day, 1897. I had told Parslow that the knife with which 
 the deed was accomplished was not suitable to kill him with one 
 blow.. I advised him to buy a revolver. There was a long discus- 
 sion between us about the same revolver. 1 was of opinion that the 
 revolver was too noisy and he dared not use it. 
 
 " Sunday, the twenty-firet, after vespers, while I was still in the 
 house about four o'clock, Sam entered the room where my husband 
 was and had the knife with him then. I did not krow before that 
 that he had the knife. 1 went out then to go to my father's. I did 
 not help him." 
 
 Sam Parslow was overwhelmed when he heard the reading of 
 these notes ; he became very pale ; then seeming to take a sudden 
 resolution, he spoke in his turn and made the most complete revela- 
 tions in the following terms . 
 
 " Isidore Poirier was lying down across his bed. I struck him 
 across the throat with the knife, but I did not think I had killed 
 him. She was helping me; she was sitting at the right and I was 
 on the left near the pillows. I used a butcher knife to cut his 
 throat with. 
 
 " After I struck him, I went oat. I was afraid. She followed 
 me, I do not remember having struck the man but once." 
 
 The prisoner then hesitated a little, then said he remembered 
 nothing else. 
 
 The coroner then asked : 
 
 "Sam, were you in love with Mrs. Poirier? " 
 
 "Yes," answered he, " but I did not ihink she would marry me. 
 
 " I told her 1 would give my head in order to save her from 
 trouble. I admit having bought a revolver with the intention of 
 killing Poirier. I killed him because I loved Cordelia, and I 
 thought her husband was in the way. I wanted to rid her of him. 
 
 " When I took the knife and started to kill Poii-ier, I was ' like 
 one magnetized.' I did not want to go, yet I went anyhow. The 
 woman told me: 
 
 " 'Be brave, Sam, only one good blow and all will be over. Do 
 not weaken.' 
 
 "I did not remark whether she held him or not, I only saw 
 that she was on the other side of the bed. 
 
 " The knife I used belonged to Cordelia. I had sharpened it 
 myself some days previously. 
 
 " There was no question between us of any insurance policy. 
 One day, however, she told me : 
 
 " ' Should Isidore die, I would be happy and you too ; we could 
 live comfortable, and I would no longer have to bother my head 
 
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 42 
 
 about the notes to meet of which my husband speaks all the 
 
 bnch 18 word for word the confession of Sam Parslow 
 It IS easily seen therefrom that the confessions were 8non 
 taneous and not dictated by remorse. In the woman 7t wasTh^ 
 cell Th^rSl"^ "P the feeling caused by ths solitude of her dark 
 cell. Ihis phenomenon IS well known and very common A «t^ 
 Sam he felt compelled to follow the example o?^is accZpiice ' 
 
 very piSci^rrrTi"^'"''-^"'^^ indiscretion wouid be 
 r.I..L '^ ••' .u • ,? "''"' ^^ occasion to see the two accused 
 pe sons in theu- cells and speak with them. Prom the report of 
 
 c?a iJn'"of c'jJv 'v' '^'"' '^' '--''^^^on, or rathei- the^^nuf 
 
 cSessed•'sJd«h«^^^ ^^' T^''''^ ^^ ^ ^^''^'d motive. ''I 
 comessed, said she to her questioner, " because I thought evorv 
 
 priS hfSrS'th ' "" ""?^^ '^' ''"P'-^-" tStmToT 
 pi omisea himself at the coroner's inquest. As I have said the 
 murder was premeditated for a long time previousW S had 
 spoken of It for more than a year, and every time that conve.^ation 
 would run upon this subject I used to say to him, ' Cu are iot 
 capable of killing him, you are too much of a coward for that' 
 
 hnnH Jk^/'^I'''' *^''®^ *',"?*'' ^'^"^ combined plans to undo mv hus- 
 
 toting him to'st Sn^r S ^'■'"''Tu'- ^« "«"'d find p/etexts 
 Hirl r^f^f^^ 1? I ??*•„ ^® "^'^"^^d his chance every time I 
 
 feft hl« In ^^^«"'d kill him, I believed him too weak Wh^n I 
 
 ' iissTour h^usbanT^h^?^"' ' ^"°^^^ "^*«™««"' P'-^^'^'^^ ^o'd »Se' 
 
 Te'to^idr -Xs- o.:.!:-^'^ ^ ^^-' "^-^- - ^-^'^y T:i'^:t'a 
 
 day."^ began to believe he had told me the truth on the previous 
 
 doors'^ WhlnT«awlT. '''' ^^' ''"^ '^^ ^^"•^"' ^"^ ^"^^'^^d at the two 
 .cioois. When 1 saw that no answer came I began to tremble It is 
 
 W at the^ml ll *?' '"T^ Vy *^« «''S^° f- a we5d(ng " 
 Knew at the time that mv hushunH wna (laod T HiH n-- i^- v,. 
 
 husband, but i tried to be good "to"hiLT '" ""^ 
 
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43 
 
 I* s 
 
 " I never loved Sam Parslow either. I let him come to see me 
 because I knew that he would do my bidding. He was my slave, 
 and he did all I told him. 
 
 " I never quarrelled with Sam, the only dispute we ever had 
 together was about the revolver with which he was to kill my 
 husband. I had told him, ' If you use a revolver you will have 
 youi-self arrested immediately.' 
 
 " He answered, ' I don't care as long as you are left alone. 
 
 " Sam Parslow knew I did not love him very much.'^.We have 
 had conversations about insurance. He knew that niy husbands 
 life was insured. Once he said to me : ' When your husband dies 
 you will get your money and you will be happy. 
 
 «' I think I told him that we would share this money." 
 
 Q. Were you in the house at the time of the murder? 
 
 A*. No. I hdd left to eo to my father's. 
 
 Q Do you know that Sam Parslow has said that you were in 
 the house at the time ? Do you know that he pretends that you 
 were in the room, and sat down beside your husband s bpdy f 
 
 A. Yes, I know it, and I was also told that Sara^wanted to 
 
 throw all the blame on me. , i < 
 
 Q. Do you know whether there was a struggle between 
 
 murderer and your husband ? 
 
 A. Yes, there was a struggle. 
 
 Q. How do you know that ? , ^. .^ 
 
 After hesitating a long while the prisoner answered that 
 was in the house, but not in the room. j x. +u„ 
 
 " I believe," she said, " that the fight started at one end ot the 
 room near the bureau. _ I heard the noise of the boots on the floor, 
 but I heard no outcry." 
 
 All of a sudden the woman said : . t -n * 
 
 " I did not say that 1 was in the house, I^cannot, i will not 
 have it said. 1 will never say that I was there. , u a t 
 
 " When Sam Parslow was speaking of killing my husband, i 
 used to tell him, ' If you kill him you will go and give it away 
 rieht after. You are too weak to keep a secret ot that kina. 
 
 " He answered : ' You will see that I will know how lo detend 
 myself. I will not 'et myself be taken so easily.' " 
 
 The prisoner then came back to the questii)n of her absence on 
 Sunday afternoon. She insisted upon it, saying : u va 
 
 " When I went away, ray husband saw me to the door ; ne aia 
 not come out though. It was impossible for Mrs. Bouvrette to see 
 him, because a tree was in the way." ^ 
 
 The prisoner then asked with an uneasy voice, what was going 
 
 on outside. . , /«? j 
 
 Her visitor did not answer that question ; he offered some con- 
 soling words, then took his leave, and went to Sam Parslow s cell. 
 As au introductory grotling thw visitor asked ; 
 " Did you sleep well last night, Sam? " 
 
 the 
 
 she 
 
a^ 
 
 44 
 
 me that she was unhl^ny Ztf *^ ^'^^'^T ""'^ «l>« «ften tdd 
 
 ill-treating her, b^t^^Zd not' CThfrn' Sf w" '^"^'*°' "- 
 
 man, even when in liquor He lovflH h^\„P V^ * ^^''^ ™>ld 
 
 a spoiled child. ^ '^^'^ *'''' ^'f« and treated her like 
 
 Bever Lr^e^ttt'^^rdS wo^uM*'^?' ^^ ''''^'^ "^'^ -•^^th-g. I 
 Moreover, it was not for money fhfn T. """I!^/ I killed \im. 
 knew that the woman didZtfJ. committed the crime. I 
 
 to take pleasure in my comply ""^ ^""^ '^"'^' ''"' '^^ «««°^«d 
 
 and LlVto^id oiS's";fe:?' r""^ 'T "f ^^--'i -y« 
 
 that I experienced in the presence of fK- '^'"'"''' ^^P'^''^ *^« ^««li°g 
 me. Eveiy day I wou d resXe npf ^' "^T*"" ^^^ fascinated 
 day I broki m/resT for I nftT. -^/^.^ ''T ^S^^'^' «°d every 
 it by my brother Georgroften^^^^^^^^^ "^'"^ ^^^^^^ed about 
 
 wrong to continue havfng anvthLrtn h^'^^.k^^k ™^u'"'^ ^^^^ ^ '^a^ 
 the strength to break off ^°^*^'°S to d6 with her, but I never had 
 
 I ^^^f'^^llTtlZlr^^^^^^^ -™^--<? to kill Poirier. 
 
 yet r felt it was una^irbt ^&° w ^ha^Z th^'° '^ ^Jr^"' ''''^^' 
 It seems to me that I have iust a^Ttlrf ^ ^ *•"'"? '' ''^ *^^®'" ^itl». 
 ber perfectly every deS X thT „ • ^^ ^f^'? a dream. I remem- 
 believe in it/' ^ ^^^^ ^'"""^ ' '^ i« «o fearful I cannot 
 
 marry ySl. ^''- ^""'^"^' ^^^'^ ^^^^ you to undei^tand she would 
 
 iive^geIh:vt:tni:;rni'!n^Sifr.rr^ *^ '"^ -'^j^^^we 
 
 me to the crime bVsavinr'fS« V °u *^** manner." She urged 
 anything for the womai ^ ^^ ''^^'^PP^" ^ ^^-'^ have dfne 
 
 intenid^'ioiJgr'" ''" '"^ ™'™'^^' ^^ ^^^^^ ^^-"7 -hat you 
 A. No, never. 
 
 kiUin^g PoirleTr '^^' ^"" ^""S'^' ^ '•«^«'-«'-. intending to .se it in 
 
 C^rddia^aidutuMmatltomuch' ^'"^^°?' "^« '' because 
 be arrested. ^ **''' "*"^^ '^^•''e and I would inevitably 
 
 yourtother Wg's.' ^"° ^'' *'« ^^^'''^«'' ^"^^^^^ ^he rafters at 
 
 also it'tSiiJuse''' ^do'^nn?"''" ""l""" '"^ ^""^ 't. My clothes are 
 my hands aftTutting^Poh ^ie'rTtZoS "'^^'" ' ""'' ''^^ ^^^^^^^ ^ 
 
 mitte/rciLTVH'^:l^!,LT-r -i^ I com- 
 
 and followed me when I went' out." ^*'" husband 
 
45 
 
 After a few consoling words, the Tisitor departed, leaving 
 Parslow the prey ox remorse. 
 
 We have insisted upon the precise official confessions of the 
 two accused in order to remove all doubts as to their guilt from the 
 minds of our veaders. Whatever the causes which led them to 
 confess, it is doubtless a fact that the confessions exist and that 
 they should stand for themselves. 
 
 As it is, it would appear that we are wrong : according to one of 
 the eingulaiities of the law, the confessions are not to be received as 
 evidence. Not having been obtained according to the forms pre- 
 scribed by the code of criminal procedure, they are to be considered 
 as having no existence. 
 
 After communicating with their counsel, the accused have 
 withdrawn their confessions and plead " not guilty." 
 
 The search for truth should always be the sole aim of justice ; 
 at any rate this is the popular belief. It does not seem to be so in 
 practice. 
 
 The defense of criminals is a aeries of surprises ; a duel where 
 deceit is the weapon, and when the counsel for the defense is 
 shrewder and craftier than the public prosecutor, ho often comes out 
 victorious. So much so, that upon the crime of the individual is 
 grafted a social crime, the costly systematic protection of the 
 criminal against the victim. 
 
 We will see by the incidents of the trial how the jury will con- 
 Bider the denials of the accused. 
 
 As we go to press the trial of Cordelia Viau has just ended. 
 On the fourth of February she was declared guilty of the muider of 
 her husband, and the jury did not require much time to agree upon 
 that, point. 
 
 In virtue of the elasticity of criminal procedure, the cause of 
 Cordelia Viau was separated from that of Sam Parslow, her accom- 
 plice. This was done in order to enable each to testify against the 
 other. 
 
 In spite of the verdict of the jury, the judge could not render 
 sentence, as the question of the confessions had been reserved by the 
 court, during the trial, to be submitted to the court of appeal. Ac- 
 cordingly, the sentence will not be pronounced before the court of 
 appeals has given an opinion as to whether the confessions will be 
 admitted in evidence or not. If not there would have to be a^ new 
 trial. 
 
 There is no doubt about Isidore Poirier having died at the 
 hands of the two accused. wmaer-^ 
 
 But according to precedents the letter of the law must pre- 
 vail. 
 
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