The Old Diamond Merchant's Young Wife.

A Page From the Note-book of a Parisian Detective.

A crime Jhas recently come to light in Paris which, for ingenuity and atrocity ■has seldom been equalled*, even in that city of criminal surprises. In March, last year, Alexander Marin, a wealthy diamond broker, over sixty, and of eccentric habits, married Marie Piet, a girl of nineteen. Three months afterward Marin died, leaving a will in which he bequeathed all his property to his widow. His nephew, Charles Marin, disputed the will, and some very «interesting facts were evolved on the : trial. It was shown that Marin was one night attacked by two footpads in the vicinity of his dwelling, and threatened with rough usage. At the '■ critical moment, when one of the thieves was about to throttle him, a fourth^ person arrived on the scene. The new-comer beat off the old man's assailants and assisted him to his home. . Marin, grateful to his deliverer, in vited him to enter his dwelling. The stranger excused himself, but promised to call the following evening. He 'duly fulfilled his promise, and appeared the next night at the merchant's house. . He was received with great cordiality, and invited to become a constant visitant. The stranger, who gave his name as Jaques Lepine, made frequent visits to the old man, and at length excused himself from calling for some time in the future, assigning as a reason that his half-sister had arrived , from the country, and was staying with him. Marin urged Lepine to bring the girl with him, and after ■ much persuasion he promised to do so. Lepine appeared accordingly a few . nights afterward with an exceedingly ..attractive, brunette, whom he intro duced as his step-sister, by the name of Marie Piet. Mariß, who was a bachelor, and whose only domestic was an elderly woman, was pleased with his new acquaintance, and she ■ won upon the old man's regard by go ing into the kitchen and preparing a very agreeable surprise for him in the shape of a supper such as he had rarely .: eaten in his own dwelling.

.Her visits, however were rare, and when Lepine called without her, the diamond merchant was always urgent in his request that he should bring his sister with him the next time. Things went on thus for some time, until at length Marin confessed to Lepine that he was in love with Marie, and urged him to use his influence with his sister to get her to marry him. lhe upshot was that Marie consented to be the old man's bride, and the marriage was consummated forthwith. At Marin's earnest solicitation, Lepine took up his residence with the newly wedded couple- Mann's nephew attempted to show that the wife and her brother had unduly influenced the old man, and that when he made his will he was not in a state of mind to execute lawfully such a document. The will, however was held good and the widow got possession of property worth over three million francs.

Charles Marin, the nephew, satisfied in his own mind that there was a mystery • connected with the making of the will, as his uncle, only four days before his sudden death had told him that he had devised his property in an altogether different way, procured two eminent detectives to search into the matter. After eight weeks of unre mitting labour, they have ended their work, and the result is now to be shown, with the means jby which they have attained their end. , .

y/' On Mai;ch 15, 1874, Marin was married1 to! Marie Piet; on Jnne 19 foli'p^ing] ; Marin died. The will wh!ic^ he,wa^ purported to have made .was., signedon June 17,. and was wit nesjsse^by JLepine and one Ghiillauine Pancher; f The medical attendant who testified ;td! the old man's decease and the^n'atiire of his malady, was Dr. Bfefe,;'Lubrade..'. "The priest who visited him iij Jhis last moments, was father The whereabouts of all. thsse ; persons was first obtained an4>carefully noted down by the de tectives;' o fs3*ff V; ;:.

A-.Tfae widow 'Marin occupied her late husband's; residence, and Lepine still; resided under; .the sa^e .roof.- ;la Octbb'er last, the.; house immediately. o Jppfjsite w;as. ; vacated, and a new ten ant^ went into; possession. •He was a sjbprjz, stout gentleman, of middle age. He went out but seldom, and spent a great I 'deal x of1 'his' time reading at' the firs¥ Jflobr 'r i^ridowV |ij He^ ' kept, cm^ fSiriate domestic,,, and. a man; servant. He w|as a devout 'Catholic, and at-. ten|e^i/|ihei same > the^ widows Marip; ( frequented. In fact it {seemed ■ to be a matter of rivalry between them which should rbe ' more regular and punctual. When monsieur was at church or otherwise absent from home, his man-servant invariably took upon himself to occupy his master's place at the first-floor window, and even went so, far ras to smoke a cigar—a thing monsieur himself was never seen to do. Befoie many weeks had passed, Monsieur Duflon— for that was the gentleman's name —had formed the acquaintance of the widow Marin, and had accepted an invitation to visit her. After that-visit was over, Monsieur carefuir^-^aaae notes of what had pas^cL'- gather; xejaectionsi.thereon,' i^'i' dook .whic^i.s4 carried^ in Ks side

pocket. And here is what he wrote : j '1. Madame Marin has never been jin Anjou, according to her own ad- I mission, though her brother Lepine introduced her to Monsieur Marin as his sister, from that province. . 2. Madame Marin's hair is brown, her eyes hazel, and her skin fair. Monsieur Charles describes her as being a brunette, with jet black hair and eyes. 13. Speaking of dreams, Madame Marin said that a few nights ago when suffering from a dreadful nightmare, August woke her. Who is August,' and how came he to be where he could awake Mme. Marin ? '4. Madame Marin, it is clear, suffers mu<_h from dreadful night mares. Why ?' Monsieur Duflon continued his visits to the widow Marin, and was soon on intimate terms—so much so that in December following his ac quaintance, he recommended to her a domestic, whom she cheerfully received into her household. As this domestic had been an old serant in the family of Monsieur Duflon's only sister, he was accustomed to speak with her in a kindly way as she showed him into the street after having spent a quiet evening with the widow Marin. Mon sieur Duflon, in his peculiar way, would write down in his pocket-book much that the widow's new domestic said to him. Here is a specimen of his entries: 'Lefleur (the domestic) says that Madame Marin's chamber and Mon sieur Lepine's chamber are one and the same, and that they share the same couch. Monsieur Lepine is evidently' August,' wh o awakes madame from kef bad dreams. ' Lefleur says there is a sick man in the house whom Lepine is nursing. Dr. Henri Lubrade gives him medi cine and occasionally visits him. Tho sick man is called Charles. Is lie another brother ?' A week went by, and the sick man was announced as dead. He was buried, and Monsieur Duflon recorded the fact in his pocket-book : ' Charles died yesterday, and was buried to-day. He was only a consin, it seems. Madame Marin has great affection for her relatives. 'Dr. Henri Lubrade is unfortunate with his patients.' Two weeks more elapsed, and in Eebruary last a lemarkable thing occurred to Dr. Henri Lubrade. At about nine o'clock at night, a gentle man, elegantly attired and weuring a magnificent diamond pin, called on Dr Lubrade, and asked for a private inter view. He was introduced by the doc tor into his private room, and carefully locking the door, said in a hurried whisper: ' Doctor, are you sure that there are no eaves-droppers —that we cannot be overheard ?' 'What is the matter?' the doctor asked nervously ; ' has anything hap pened —speak, what do you mean ?' 'I am recommended to you,' the mysterious visitor said in a whisper, ' by Madame Marin and August!' The doctor gave a start, and changed colour. Then he recovered himself and said : ' And what can I do to please you sir?' ' Let us sit down,' said the stranger, and he seated himself, motioning the doctor to another chair. ' Madame Marin,' he continued,' has assured me that you are to be trusted and that you will do faithfully what ever you promise to undertake.' The stranger paused and looked at the doctor, who sat bolt upright with his eyes turned furtively toward his companion.

'Here,' said the latter, taking a book from his pocket, ' are one thou sand francs. "When the work is done you shall have nine thousand more.' ' But you have not told me what 1 am expected to do for this recompense, the doctor said, handling the notes.' ' I want,' said the stranger, lowering his voice,' a quick and effective poison that will do its work well, and after that your certificate that all is as it should be,' ' And Madame Marin sent you to me .?.'. the doctor asked. ' Madame Marin/ ' She told you I could do this ?' :< She did.' ; • -; 'If she told you that, then you can be trusted. When do you require the medicine?'

' Now ; but of course you must first visit your patient.' ! , ' I am ready to do so now.' Half- an' hour later they were in Monsier Duflori's bed-room, and the doctor was feeling that gentleman's pulse. Ten minutes more and they were driven back to. the doctor's

house.' ■ 'Apoplexy,' the doctor said, in a low tone.

'Precisely so !' said the elegant stranger. ' Seized at one p.m., died by sir!' ; 'Say eight/ the doctor said, in a low tone. \ 'Eight be it,' was the reply. ,In the doctor's private room, he handed the visitor a small vial. I 'In a wine glass of water,' he said; | The stranger put it in his pocket, said: 'To-morrow, at noon, in t!his room,' and departed. i Next morning, at about eight o'clock, 1 4 sedate-looking gentleman, with a iclean-shaven face, and attired in black, i<jptered the vestry of the, church of 'St, Pierre, and accosted the priest

who was about to enter the Confess ional.

' Father Plessy,'he said, c Monsieur

, (narning*a well-known Parisian of high rank), is at the point of death, and requests your immediate presence to perform the offices of the church.'

In ten seconds Father Plessy was inside the carriage waiting at the church door, and was driven off to the mansion in the suburbs.

'My friend,' said the gentleman, addressing the sacristan, ' go as fast as you can to No. 200, Rue Paix, and tell Father Petron his services are required here.'

The sacristan quitted the edifice. Then the stranger arrayed himself in a priest's cassock, put the cap on his head, and stepped into the confessional. An aged man who had naught to con fess but his fear of death, was soon disposed of. The next was a woman in widow's weeds. She had brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair skin. She knelt there half an hour, and went away sobbing and convulsed. The confessor was deeply moved, also, and retired into the vestry. There he threw off his cassock, laid aside his cap, resumed his cloak and slouched hat, and quitted the church. He went straight toward the' residence of Madame Marin. Near the corner he overtook her, spoke a few words, and paused at the door opposite the widow's residence. Be opened the door with a latch-key, entered, went up stairs, and in five minutes had begun to make an entry in a memorandum book, which he drew from his side pocket. The entry ran as follows :

'1. Marie, wife of Alexander Marin, was murdered on the night of June 18, by august Lepine, her half-brother, and Jeanette, his wife. Jeanetto then first appeared in Marin's house,*and assumed Madame Marin's place and name. '2. Mnrin had been previously poisoned by his wife and Lepine, aided by Dr. Henri Lubrade. '3. The whole scheme was concocted by Jeanette, then the pai'arnour, but now the wife of Lepine. '4. Jeanette's resemblance to Mad ame Marin was so great as to render it improbable that the personation should be detected, especially as Mad ame Marin had no acquaintances, and was known by none of Monsieur Marin's friends. '5. Eugene's interview with Dr. Lubrade was satisfactory so far as it went. 3t showed that he and Madame Marin knew each other and that he would poison a man for money, and certify to his death from natural causes. Madame's unburdening of her mind in the confessional of St. Pierre put me in possession of all the links in the chain.'

The same day Lubrade, lepine and Madame Marin were arrested, and privately examined. Lubrade volun teered a confession, and his story is given below.

Lubrade and Lepine boarded at uno time in the same house, and after Lubrade rented a house of his own their acquaintance continued. Lo pine had been a gambler, and a billiard-marker by turns, he induced his step-sister to come to Paris from the country, and Mario became Lu brade's mistress, Lepine then started the idea of marrying her to some wealthy old imbecile, and living on the husband's bounty or folly. In looking around for a suitable victim, Marin presented himself. Lubrade and a man known as Naso conspired with Lepine to entrap the old man, The attempt at robbery was concocted and carried out, and Lepine made his appearance on the spot at the right moment in the character of a deliverer. The success of their scheme so far as the marriage was concerned is known. Lepine proposed the murder of the diamond merchant, and Marie as sented. Lubrade furnished the poison, attended the sick man, and procured a priest. The latter was a renegade named Roget.

While the old man was under the effects of slow poison, he was allowed to make his will. Another will was prepared,, and substituted for his signature. After his death Mane be came unmanageable, and threatened to turn Lepine outof doors. Then the woman Jeanette appeared on the scene, and it was resolved to get Marie out of the way.

She was strangled, and buried in the garden. Jeanette, who closely resembled her, assumed her wardrobe and name. .

But there is still another actor in this dreadful tragedy to be accounted for. The man known as Naso was acquainted with the secret of the con spirators and was intent on bleeding Lepine and his wife-—for Jeanette had married Lepine after the death of the old man. JSfaso was easily disposed of by Lepine and Dr. Lubrade, and was buried as Jeanette's cousin. In the meantime Jeanette had been seized with remorse and had become frantically pious. Duflon the de.tec tive, availed himself of this fact, and in the character of her confessor wormed from her a history of her crimes. The reader will understand the rest. ■■•' I

■ Lubrade, Jeanette and Lepine were tried for the murder of Marin and Marie, and Lubrade and Lepine for the murder of Naso, Jeanette haying been kept in ignorance of the last crime. They were .sentenced ,in March last .to^the galleys jtojr Jykw'ftili

Lady Agnes.

The fame of the Warwieks of England has descended to posterity; but the memory of Lady Agnes is no more. Sole heiress of the house off Warwick, 'Agnes Neville, at the age of twenty-three had discretion above her years. The earl her father was engaged in the wars of Eichard the Third, while Neville Tower was the place of her retreat from a hateful court The dominions of Lord Talbot adjoined to her inheritance, and the two old noblemen had long entertained a favorite scheme of uniting them for ever by a marriage with the son of the latter. The heart of fair Agnes declared in his favor; but that of young Talbot, unknown to her, was the slave of Ellinor Dudley. Ellinor far surpassed her in beauty, and was the object of universal admiration; but in par ticular that of Lord Essex, who had demanded her of her fatter, but was unable to obtain the affections bestowed _ on Talbot's son. Oppressed by his pas- J sion, and distracted by her resistance, he j resolved to employ force, and despatched a band devoted to him, with orders to intercept her way, as he knew she was crossing the country attended by a very slender escort, and convey her to his castle in the neighborhood. A part only of his directions were obeyed; they impeded her progress, but the fleetness of her horse was her protection ; it conveyed her to Neville Tower, which was in sight; and then the generous resolution of Lady Agnes engaged for her further safety, though she was swiftly pursued by Essex's men who, acquainted with the absence of Lord Warwick, apprehended lifctle resistance from his daughter. She couducted her lovely and terrified rival to the top of the tower. After having commanded her dependents to arm for the defence of the place, she inquired with amazement the cause of an aversion that could lead her so obstinately to refuse one of the- most accomplished nobles of her time. Ellinor, though no stranger to the engagements of her protectress with Lord Talbot's son, waa ungenerous enough to reveal her par tiality for him, at the same time that she implored safety from Essex's men, who were infinitely superior in number to those on whom she rested her hopes of defence, It remained with Lady Agnes only to yield her rival up, or at lpast command a faint resistance, Ellinor in the power of Lord Essex, could never more be apprehended as the chosen mis tress of young Talbot and without the least .appearance of ungenerosity in the I noble Neville, the wishes of her heart might- be indulged. Thus she argued for a moment, but true heorism prevailed. Herself appeared on the ramparts, and animated to such a degree her father's warriors, that only four of the pursuers of Ellinor escaped. After this triumph over the invaders and her own heart, she direc ted a strong guard to conduct the too lovely rival to the castle of her family, where she was soon after secured from the farther forcible attempts of iser determined lover by his death in battle. Henry the Seventh seated on his throne, tho Earl of Warwick returned to h.'s daughter, whose nuptials he wished to have celobrated before he conducted her to court. Lord Talbot's impatience equalled her own; and the young soldier, dreading his father's irrit able temper, acquiesced without a mur mur. They attended at Neville Tower, and princely offers were made in form. Agnes positively refused him, acquainted her father with § what had passed, but entreated nla eop.recv, that Lord Talbot's anger might rather "bo raised against her self than against his son. This resolution to the young man was an unexpected reprieve, but he was still tarther to be indebted to the generous-minded woman. Through her mediation his marriage was completed with Ellinor. Her brave father, while he lived, engaged her undivided attention, and after his death his vassals were prevented from long lamenting their loss by the noble mind and truly British virtues of his steady and magnanimous successor —the Lady Agnes.

Varieties.

A stage wait—The heavy man. A comic song is an absurd-ditty. A banker's a-count —-Since when ? A handicap—a capful of money. Wine and cider illustrates the power of the press.

You make your money last by getting somebody else to make.it first.

Handkerchief flirtations, to- be success ful, must have a fool on either side of the street to make the motions.

Harvard crew were beaten this year because one of the crew ceased rowing for an instant to smile at his girl on a flat boat. '~';■ , It might be quietly remarked at tnis juncture that whenever the Orangemen have a procession they, always stand in need of lemon aid..', : 'There is an easier feeling in shoes,' said the market reporter, a3 he wren-ched off a pair of narrow eight boots and stuck his feet into his old ten brqgans. ■ A.policeman in Chicago, the other night, in passing a house heard a woman sci'earn ing, 'O Fenry, Henry! come here quick! Susan ! mother ! the bwby !' Gallantly breaking in the door and rushing up-stairs the officer found that the baby-—had just cut a tooth! , , , \, r,' ri ,-> ::;

A new style of shirt-collar is run wi .fch lead at the back,, so if the button cor a ea off the shirtrband, the collar will not cl"imb up the back of the wearer's heml e>ery time he stoops forward. This is ec^tiiva lent to equipping several hundred nx ission aries. , ; .

The centre of gravity—the low? but ton on a Quaker's vest. . Jones, in writing to a friend, f jays that he is glad to say that his wife is r scovering very slowly. What is the difference between a bachelor and a band for a horse > ? One is a single sir, and the other is a f mr-cingle.

George; Washington couldn't tell a lie, and that's what ails the average Vicksburg boy. The other day, when < ane of them accidentally broke a pane of glass in a store window, it was touohini j to, see, .him walk, into 'the store and up to the merchant and say: • Mr. Blank, I brol £c a pane of glasa. in the> window thsre, and,you can charge it to the old man 1? ai ecount! Fat it down as a I pound of salera jfcus, and hell never know*, the 4ifferpn,ee !?1 V 1" o^J-~

A Bit about Skating.

< Yoir see,' said my friend Keglet, as he cut a 'pigeon's wing' on the glassy surface at the rink, went off on one foot and came circling around on the on the other—'you see, it is an exercise which brings all the muscles into play, and must be healthy. In fact, Dio i-ewis says it is better than riding on horseback.' m It looked so easy and so nice that ± winked at the boy who had skates to lend, and he came over. < That's right, old boy,' called Keglet, as he sailed around with a handsome girl on each arm, and a lovely blonde hanging to his coat tails-' i?ll bet a hundred dollars that you'll learn all the flourishes within an hour.' _ _ I was highly gratified at this 1 expression of confidence in my ability, and 1 kept hurrying up the boy as he fastened on the skates. The impudent saucebox said I had better strap a pillow on the back of my head before I started out, but I passed the in sinuation by in silent comtempt. 'Wow, then,' said Eeglet, circling up with a dozen French nourishes, 'the main thing is to have confidence in yourself. Strike out like a pioneer getting away from a troop of wolves and I'll bet a hundred to one you 11 make a skater/ , I struck out. I struck in several other directions besides out. One foot went to the left, the other to the right and I whirled around and sat down. The blonde young lady came up, and said that I had made a capital hit, and the other two said that I was certain to combine grace with muscular effort when I got fairly started. I did'nt feel much like starting out again, but I had to do it. tfeglet helped me up again, said that he could already see an improvement in my health, and warned me to shove my feet aa I saw him do. I obeyed. The left foot shot out, leaving the right some rods in the rear, and in trying to even up the race S little, something struck the ice. It was myself. The back of my head struck first, and there were five distinct shocks before the whole of my body got down. Beglet sailed up, and said he never saw that beaten, and the blonde declared her belief that I was an old skater, and was just playing off on them. The rink danced round and round as I sat up, and the small boy who was grinning at me appeared to my vision like eight or nine small boys, and eight or nine grins. ' Come, old boy, this exercise will brighten jouv cheek until your own wife won't know you/ called JBeglet, offering to help me up. I wanted to go home and sit down behind the coal stove and ponder and reflect, but he dragged me to my feet, and tho blonde wanted to know if 1 wouldn't please to give them 'The Prince of Wales flourish.' I glanced at her, and tried to smile, and they all edged off to give me a fair show. 'Come, dart right off!' yelled Reg let, and I carefully started my feet cut on an exploring voyage. They hadn't travelled over six inches before they got ahead of my body. I reached out for something to support me, clawed around, and the back of my head dug a hole in the ice. I thought the roof of the rink had fallen in, and that twenty-eight tons of boards and shingles had struck me in a heap ; but I was deceived. ' You struck an air bubble, or you'd have made a splendid show,' said Reglet as he pulled at me. 'The blonde said that I had come within a hair's breadth of cutting one of the grandest flourishes known on ice, and they wanted me to try once more. I told 'em I had got to go to a funeral, and that I would be back in half-an-hour, but it was no use. :' See how easy ife is,' exclaimed Beg let, aa lie pushed, out and, swung one leg round. i pushed,; out and swung one leg. I couldn'c pull it back. 1 tried to, and. I yelled to Beglet that I'd give him fifty dollars to grab me. He was too late. I clawed, and waved, and tottered, and fell j and when I came to my senses again, Keglet said that if I would go through the same per formance every day for two months he'd warrant me that I could eat a hundr.'ed hot biscuits per day^ and ; Hever> have . a touch of. dyspepsia, i : lam in bed yet, and a friend has writ ten this from dictation. The doctor says that two ribs on. .the;, left side are ; fractured, the collar-bone is broken, ■ the bone of one elbow smashed, and the spinal column iis three inches out of true; but he is labouring away in hopes of mending me up by Spring :—• Things HTgic. and Old. o , . il: :

Men; With 'BtG BEAiNS.-^Men of great intellect are generally provided with large brains. Large brains, on the other hand, do not ensure a great intellect. If..the: posterior base of a brain is unusually, developed, it may add to the totality, of ! cerebral weight but not necessarily to; intellectual power. Daniel Web ster's | brain weighed fifty-seven ounces, and those of Cuvier, Napoleon, and James Fist, ,jun., • still more. These were all men of geiaius. Such was not William 3oswell r a black-; smith, who dropped dead from the excess -of drink in an Indianpolis saloon, the (other, night. He was of unusual size, over three hundred pounds. .-,' A\ jpart of his adipose tissue was, no doubt, jmere alcoholic bloat. '. Still: he Had af jmi»ssivft organization.« flis br:un weigh, ed | gixty-ono oances—^more tham that; • "of s either of the celebrities above meHtionf»d. | '—• Owinaati Qazette.' 1875 ' .nosioq R

They are now making gilt-edged paper! collars, and just as soon as the public can be educated tip to the point of wearing them there will be no further neea ot dollar-store jewelry. They met on Michigan avenue, One was carrying a large parcel, and the other was carrying a sorrowful face. Ham t you carrying parcels any more ? queried the small boy. 'Not much!1 replied the other. 'It paid well enongh, and a teller could'wear good clothes and put on some dignity; but when it got so that the head clerk followed me around in a hack to see if I stopped to play marbles I thought it was time to quit!'

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