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Show A Woman's Terrible Crimes. Leda Lamontagno, a fine looking French Canadian girl 21 year old, is in custody at Boston charged with fompliclty in a horrible horri-ble crime in Wolfstown district of fit. Francis, P. Q., two year bro, a crime which involved themnrderof her husband, Napoleon Michel, and the cremation of bis body to secure his removal. The husband was shot by the brother, but managed to run out of the house. The brother followed, fol-lowed, firing two more shoti, and cut him i n t he neck. Then the wife and her brother dragped the supposed corpse to the house and placed it between two mattresses, and In order to cover up the crime the mattresses mat-tresses were set on five and the house wits abandoned. But the husband was only stunned by the bullet, and the fierce pain caused by the fire brought him to his sense in time to escape from what was designed to be his funeral pyre. He crawled to the house of his iieiuhbor, and soon his wife sought the sbcltrr of the mime roof. There was a scene when his wife caught a glimpse of her husband's luce. The husband died a month later. Tho wife woe acquitted of the charge of murder, the jury deciding that the brother who had disappeared was the guilty one. Subsequently the wife whs charged with arson, but the papers could not. be served, as she had disappeared. disap-peared. For two years the police hunted for her all over N'.sw Kngland, and she waa arrested the othsr day in a little New Hampshire village. ' |