| Show A whasil FIND ibe skeleton of bother ani bale taken from u OH m SIMME T nov 29 the skeletons of a bomin and were yesterday discovered by workmen i employed in cleaning out an old well on what is known as the richardson platform lying a few miles out of town on the baton rouge road dr ley worth who examined the remains says they are those of a young woman and a child afew a few weeks old the skulls of both were broken but whether this was the cause of death or sal inflicted the doctor can not say the arms of the woman were still so tightly clasped about the child that they could not be loosened and the two were rein berred as they were found about the neck of the woman was hung a silver chain to which was attached a small gold crucifix both quite black however ditl slime and age the latter on being cleaned was found to be on the back with the initials A F F and the date may 10 1803 the chain and image were of most exquisite work manship the crucifix being set with seven small about the head and somewhat larger ones in the palm and feet the Bi chardson place lias lain fallow ever since the war when on the death of its owned col maurice richardson it became the property of a gentleman living ln cuba and who recently sold it to true fatten of this place when they began preparations to farm it to its purchase colonel the plantation was owned by a french gentleman named fougeron who in turn inherited the property from a relative of that name settlers say vas unmarried and lived the life of a miser and recluse he was said to have an octoroon daughter a most beautiful young woman to whom he was devotedly attached but that she disappeared one day and to the few who ventured to question him about her absence he that she bad run away with a man employed by him aa an overseer As this man was also missing and the girl and he having been been frequently together this was accepted did cot scruple atlee time to say that the old man had murdered them both the discovery yesterday revives the old story and confirms it |
