Great interest has been excited by the investigation of three remarkable charges of poisoning which have been brought agaist a young widow only twenty-four years of age, named Galtié, a resident in a small country town, St. Dar, in the department of the Gerz, lying between the Gironde and the Pyrenees. Mme. Galtié is now in prison and her side of the case has yet to be heard, but if the fact ly elucidated are confirmed, "serious danger of taking as a prodigy of crime. The daughter of a butcher, she married, at the ago of si er's clerk, who was soon is appointed inge de paix" at St. Dar, M. Galtié was fifteen years older than his wife, but the difference of ago did not lead'to any discord, and they appeared to be a model couple. Last November M. Galtié suddenly fell ill, and expired after four days' suffering. Four months later, while Mme, Galtié w: staying with her parents, at Casseneuil, her grandmother also died suddenly. No suspicion was excited in either case. A few weeks ago Mme. Galtié's brother, Gaston Dupont, came to stay with his sister. He leit her to perform his twenty-eight days' military servies. In mediately after his arrival at the regi mental depot, he was taken ill. the doctor who examined him came to the conclusion that he was suffering from eczema caused by excessive use of iodide potassium. Dupont was sent home to s sister. Three days later he was dead. This time suspicion was aroused. It was ascertained that Mme. Galtié had more than once procured arsenic from the local chemist, for the purpose, she stated, of Killing rats. The last purchase of the poison was made on the very day of her brother's death. She remarked to the chemist. that she was anxious to get rid of the rats because they kept her brother awake by gnawing the woodwork in the dead of meht. It also appears that, shortly before her grandmother's death, Mme. Galtié wrote from Cassenenil to her servant, instructing her to send a small quantity of arsenic.
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