A STRANGE AFFAIR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 682, 14 May 1875, Page 4

A STRANGE AFFAIR.

The Minister of Justice has just received a report of a very sad affair, which is likely to create some sensation, Thirty years ago a young girl named Maria Gueruie was found poisoned in her bed. She had been bethrothed a short time before to a young man with whom her sister Madeline was said to be desperately in love. The poor girl was at once arrested, tried, and finally condemned to death, which she suffered calmly and valiantly, without uttering a word of complaint or justification. Everybody felt the deepest sympathy for the poor old father of the two girls, who was giving signs of the most violent grief. He had come into possession of some money which the girls had inherited from their mother, but his grief did not seem to be lessened thereby. A fortnight ago the old man died, and before his death confessed to his parish priest, the Rev. Abbe Barreau, that he was himself the murderer of his eldest daughter. He had, moreover, allowed suspicion to rest on the younger in order to inherit the money of both. The poor victim had died innocent without uttering a word in her defence, because she knew who was the muiderer; and rather chose to die than denounce him to justice.—Paris Letter,