A POISON MYSTERY IN PARIS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3862, 4 October 1899, Page 2

A POISON MYSTERY IN PARIS

j A YOUN^A^T : Add^BD.

~ tMadanie Couderc, the wife of a business man, with J resided-:in an es;jiensiVe 'suite' ihftbei>-Bblde : viird Haussmann,. has ; been arrested -ori the chaise of, poispni ng, (her- cousin; ■a; ohild -.df fon r teen , U u ain ed.iMa ri e, Lppiag JSantenayi. The-defendant-is-supposed/by her-acousers-to have wanted the girl out, of the. way, ah she stood between her family and the prospective succession of a. wealthy old lady living at Asnieres. Marie Louise Santenay’s father, now dead, was related to this person ? who is i the grandmother otAMllGOndero/lhjuhband ''of-QhVi'arfbsfi® woman. The Coudercs looked down an’ the child's. ah She marriedlA tiolfceman, now in_thO'Jba'/Epa ,u Pitt e 'i district, after her first husband's death., It is stated, that Madame ’ Couderc always artmatOfl“td' : taKe 'antintefemwn the little! ’gmf'whdnr am jn.vited_ to her ‘house. ■According" to the evidence' of M. Blanc, the policeman, little Santenay's stepfather, the child, on returning from school the other day, was met by a veiled woman, badly dressed, who said ;r ‘‘Don’t yjourrecognise inO.fi V I and gave her a white 16ze«ge‘, distributing' some ■ chocolate; bonbons tat -the isamedtitfil! to,Maripfs, cpmpaiiionstu};Soon after(retwrnt ihg home Marie became ill, and; fgidi.thate had met ;.her cojisiny vHio'gavel'ber a sfent,for a‘ doctor,'but, in spile pTfils the girl died. M. ( BlanpthfmiirfofmOd-his chief, and a wa'trahf-wks-'mibSe'qfiently issued for Madame .C'ouderc's arrest;; - iA'<t her ,residence- ' lootoadOfor the shabby clothes.which she is said to-have-worn by way of disguise when she met the child, but they failed to find any garments of the sort. Madame Couderc, who maintained that she was not in La Roquette district on the day of the alleged poisoning, .is. a >wealthy woman'. itwdntjli three years oldy andthoroughly accomplished. ■' The .suggestion appears in several -newspapers that the young girl may-hive' of drinting. a.,cqupi e/pf rglassespof cold water, on returning, hpme.'. : ~Si[a(lame derd’s husband ‘ Is - .' pvef,wbelm9d‘l'with - ah/guisli.'lahd all * her emphatically prcrelaltirdref innocencel'aiul maintain that' she was dotingly foritLof little Marie Santenay. : 11 .f" - ' ■ •An official inquiry was'opened before M. Fabret,j vxapnpingv magi it rate. t^hem brought from her cell in ftKe prison intQj. M. office, CoU(lercj£gps- - her'mnbcencelmrthe.sfrongest manner. 1