Show y I 1 S unsolved riddles that still ponta authorities rare kare and abroad M the death of the duchess of praslin braslin tolle ahr 1110 stage setting tor for thi hits murder one of the niest niost remor kohle lu in the annals of crime was such any writer of detective fiction would revel to ID it atas as welt well as in an th the strange estrange circumstances cum stances which ume came to light during the trials that ensued nn and the widespread rumors that a still greater myr mya tery lay hidden just below the surface even in the scandal laden inden gossip of paris the duke and add duchess of tin lin wore were reputed to he be extremely to in their marital relations and alpar bently not a cloud had fiad marred their nn nineteen eteen years of married lire during which they had been blessed hy by nine children both the duke and hn his wife w were er e the possessors of large i and la in fluen tini fortunes fortuned and there ther e was ianth ing which either had de desired Ired which had not been immediately forthcoming however one morning in august 1847 persons ano were ere passing the praslin braslin mansion on the ittie hue honore heard fearful acre s reams nina coming from a room on the second floor and when the pollee police hurst burst in they found the servants cowering back from the open door of the duchess bed cham ber where even a cursory glance showed that a frightful struggle had taken jaken place smears of blood were over practically every piece of furni ture the bed had been overturned one chair had been smashed to pieces and in the center of the room was the dead body of the due duchess hess blood gushing from five alve open tiny anny one of which would have been sum cien tto cause her death hardly had the significance of the scene cene made itself apparent to the servants ir vints and the police when they I 1 were amazed to see the alie duke of iras dressed with his usual metri metrical cul ous care caie stroll down the hall and heard him inquire casually as to the cause of the commotion when told that his wife had find been murdered the duke gave orders that the family physician 1 asician was to he summoned immediately at ely and he then retired to his room where according to the subsequent testimony of his valet lie he gave way to a paroxysm of grief later when questioned by the police the duke declared that lie he had not heard his alfes screams and ninin maintained taine d that the first he had learned of the crime was when he had inquired of the servants ns as to what had happened ile he admitted however how that a pistol discovered dise in th the e dead womans comans room had belonged to him but he stated that it had and its appeared ipp eared some weeks previously and that be had not seen it since estate ments the police corn celm batted by prodie producing ing a blood bloodstained stained dressi dressing ing sown which they had round found in a closet II in nitie the dukes apartments together with a dagger and a sword both ot of which were covered with blood and completed the framework of their theory by recovering from the fl replace of the dukes sitting room burned fragments of let from the duchess protesting against the intimacy which she charged had been going on for some time between the duke and am A mile ille gov ganv erness arnesa I 1 le c some olitte of ohp younger lara slin children here the detectives main twined were not only the hie with which the crime had heen been pom com matted hut but the motive as well find and a warrant was immediately issued for the arrest of the puke before this could lie be served how ever swallowed a large dose dorp of poison hut hilt his trial was instantly instituted before a hastily assembled jury which convened in the bed chalm her of the accused man in the of abe the duke of irna alln Is reported to have shrieked 1 I am not guilty rut ltv before nod god F urn riot gil gillitt Rull lity tyl 17 and to h have live fallen over dead but and here la Is where the devond mystery makes its appearance hartince ear tince it war widely believed that pra nevor never took poison find and that the whole afenir was wn part of a pre plot to rove rave the nobleman from the gallows those who adhere to this ahenry claim that the duke was spirited out nf the country and lived for years in n england where he was maintained in lux z ur ury by the income from hl estates transmitted by his son and his grand son eon after evading an attempt to lynch her mile bille delucy escaped to a where she married a famous new york cawyer and later became tin an friend of mrs harriet beecher stowe she died in 1874 just prior to th the publication of a book which o contrary to eap exp expectations threw not the slightest light upon the affair of the lie rne saint ronnae or the mystery connected with alth the ile fild ultimate milte fate of the duke of isi bv the wheeler wheelar syndicate I 1 |