Show IV D ladr ger c IV 7 the quebec mystery NG NII morning in the spring of the 0 year mrs caroline pollier of st canute in the province of quebec roused one of her neighbors and said with much agitation that she was un able to get into her home or rouse her husband she had been spending the night with a friend nearby aid ald said that her husband who had been working on the repairs to a church at st J jerome nine miles d stall start was expected home some time the previous evening the police were summoned the door broken in and the I 1 ausband found lying on the floor dead his body bore three knife wounds aid it was quite evident that there had been a I 1 fe and death struggle cut but beyond the disordered appear ance of the room there were no clues to indicate who the culp culprit rit might have been the strange part of it was that nothing had bad been taken from the house so that the murder could not have been for the purpose of theft mrs poirier was naturally distract ed and went about the work ork of set aling up the estate like a woman in a traice the man who had led a d ssi life died practically penniless but he did leave an insurance policy of 2 in favor of bis his wife isidore pollier had been a condrac tor and builder in a small way and he had married cordelia cordella viau the handsome daughter of a farmer after a whirlwind wooing they had no children but for some years after their marriage they lived very happily at the end of that time the bomin seems to have conceded conce conc hed elied an aversion tor for her husband the reason for this according to one of the commentators on the affair Is that she was a masterful bomin and be he was a man of very common mold the gossips had it that she was en adored of another min one samuel a carpenter who worked for her husband at all events they were seen together very much and he paid her marked attention lo indeed on the night when n the mur der had occurred the two were to gether but that in itself did not feces connect either of them with the crime mrs airs pollier was the or organist anist of the village church while was a member ot of the choir that fact might well have explained their frequent meetings in the meantime the authorities were working h hard hird ird to trace the movements of the dead man prior to the murder it was ascertained that he ile had been working thit very day at st jerome the people of the village informed them that he had left there in a car arlage saying that he was going home 0 e other persons living on the roa road b between the two towns testified that they had seen him pass with the team one of them said thit a woman ac comp compan led him film unfortunately this person was not able to give a very good description of the won an at this stage of the the agent of the insurance company which had insured the victim appeared to say that mrs airs pollier had personally taken out the insurance had carried on all of the correspondence and was particularly anxious at the time to be sure that she would get the money no matter what might have been the cause of death the authorities determined to take the bull by the horns and both mrs airs aid ald were arrested they were placed in different cells and each told a story that conflicted with the other the evidence was circumstantial but it was shown hat that the woman had gone to st jerome and had brought her husband home on the night the trag edy was supposed to have occurred both were found guilty and sen tence of death was at once pronounced in spite of the fact that the aomar had been shown in anything but a favorable light petitions were mere numer bously signed and presented to the gov arnor general urging him to show clemency to the female convict he ile declined to interfere saying that the law must be permitted to take tale its course when the noose was prepared sam uel was so I 1 mp that he had to be literally carried to the platform not so the masterful aomar she walked up the steps will with a firm tread and as she reached the execl lioner exclaimed be quick that la Is all I 1 ask service |