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April 18, 1864
Startling Revelations
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LIFE IN THE OLD WORLD.
f From the New York World.
The federal capital of the ancient re
public of Switzerland is just now in a
tremor of excitement over the judicial
denouement of one of the darkest and
most appalling tragedies of domestic life
which have ever come to the light, even
-in this age of startling "sensations."
The interest with which all France
hung upon the details of the crime of the
Count de La Pommerais, the fashionable
homeopathic physician of Paris, who first
insured his patients lives, and then poi
soned them, is more than equalled by the
eager and tremulous curiosity with which
the public of Berne are watching the suc
cessive revelations which the law is ma
king in its close investigation info the
guilt of Dr. Hermann Demme, one of
the most brilliant and promising young
men of science in Switzerland, charged
with conspiring with the wife of one of
his most intimate friends to poison that
friend, whose young daughter was, at the
same time his betrothed wife.
We condense from our late foreign files
the rniin outlines of this fearful story,
which throws into the shade the darkest
pictures ever drawn, even by the jx.-ncil of
liclzac, of the human heart and its inte
rior possibilities of evil.
Herman Demme is a young man not
thirty years of age. His father is a dis
tinguished professor of the University of
Heme, and the son, early introduced by
him to the study of the science, has for
several years been looked upon as one of
the future glories of the republic. lie
was sent at the expense of the confedera
tion into Italy in 1850 to study the French
system of ambulances, and the whole
hospital service of the French armies.
He has published a work on military
surgery, which had made for him a name
in Germany as well as in Switzerland,
and which secured him an invitation to
act as a collaborator on one of the most
important medical journals of Germany.
Of late he had devoted his attention par
ticularly to toxicology ; and a recent trea
ties of his on the eilects of strychnine and
curare was quoted, but the other day,
with commendation, in the l'aris Revue
Drs Deux Mamies.
Hermann Demme wears in his physiog
nomy all the evidences of his intellectual
rank. lie has a high open forehead;
short brown curling hair; his face is pale,
and its most marked characteristics are
energy and thoughtfulness.
Two years ago Dr. Demme was sum
moned to attend a certain Madame Trum
py ; then a woman thirty-eight years of
age, still handsome, but of a singularly
nervous and excitable character. In a
quarrel with her husband, the latter had
flung a lamp at her which struck her in
the face and destroyed one of her eyes.
Dr. Demme saved her life, but could not
save her eye ; and at the earnest entreaty,
both of the husband and the wife, he sup
pressed the circumstances of this misfor
tune. Mr. Trumpy, the husband who
took such liberties was a banker of lierne,
living in a charming house called Wabern,
situated on the Aar, at the foot of the
mountain opposite lierne. He was still
in the prime of life, and was well known
in the city as a financial operator and
daring speculator ; a man living like Ma
homet's coffin, between heaven and earth ;
to-day almost a millionaire, and next
week almost a bankrupt, but always living
in a free and dashing sort of style such
a man, in short, as one may see by the
score in Wall street between 10 a. m. and
4 r. m. He made such advances to Dr.
Demme as resulted in a close intimacy.
Dr. Demme first became a regular guest
at the Wabern dinner table, jnd then had
a chamber set apart for him in the house.
When the Trumpys went traveling, Dem
me joined them, and in this way they
visited together, during the first year of
their acquaintance, Jerusalem and the
East ; and, during the second year, Italy.
On the loth of February last, Gaspard
Trumpy, whose affairs were at that time
in a particularly embarrassing condition,
thanks to his connection with a certain
speculator named Ilelwing, was taken
very ill during the night. Demme had
for some days been attending him for a
painful disorder under which he was suf
fering, in consequence of certain excesses
in his way of living. He insisted that
Demme should sit up with him, and that
nobody else should. The next morning
he died. Shortly afterwards Dr. Demme
was betrothed to the only daughter of the
deceased, a young lady of seventeen.
Down to this time the death of Trum
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1864.
py had been regarded as natural, and the
whole matter passed quiet out ot the mind
of all but those directly concerned, when
Heme was electrified by Madame Trum
py's denunciation of her intended son-in-law
as the assassin of her husband, and
as her own guilty lover ! This extraor
dinary denunciation was made in a letter
of which the following is an extract :
" As I have told you I have too much
upon my heart. 1 suffer ; my conscience
gives me no rest. Yes ! I am an accur
sed woman. I have been guilty of every
vice, of every excess. I have been guilty
of falsehood, theft, adultery, and I have
ended by becoming the assassin of my
husband. It is by my fault, and through
my example, that my husband and my
child have become wicked. I have sown
evil around me. I have fallen myself,
and in my fall have dragged down my
nearest family. I have passed part of my
life alternately as a victim and a seducer.
A man came into my house as a friend,
he became my lover, and the assassin of
my husband. Ah, I deserve all possible
chastisements. Whatever penalties you
may inflict upon me, I deserve them all.
They are an expiation. I resign myself
to everything ! 1 submit to my destiny."
Upon this denunciation of Madame
Trumpy, she herself and Dr. Demme
were arrested, and the remains of Mr.
Trumpy were subjected to a chemical ex
amination. And here we are introduced
to a new and most striking feature in this
extraordinary case. For some time no
traces of poison could be found in the
body ; nor were any of the effects of the
best known poison observable in it. Dr.
Schwarzcnbach, one of the examiners,
after testing in vain for morphine and qui
nine, suddenly thought by accident of
strychnine, applied the test, and when he
saw the violet tinge appear, which reveal
the deadly presence, started back, as he
himself says " horror struck." Hut the
strychnine thus detected had tseither pro
duced the cramps by which its fatal ac
tion is attended nor had it passed beyond
the small intestines. It had evidently
not been long enough in the body to cause
death !
I low was this accounted for ? One
professor, Dr. Hausemann, supposes that
Trumpy, weary of his financial troubles,
took strychnine ; and that bfure it had
readied the liver, a shock of hurror at his
own act sent the blood to his brain, and
caused hit death by apoplexy, tltc su-tft men
tal emotion outrunning thus the more materi
al minister of death !
This hypothesis would, of course, ac
quit Dr. Demme. Hut in what a hide
ous light must Madame Trumpy then re
main !
We shall revert to this terrible feature
in the case presently, pausing now to
point out another and scarcely less dread
ful complication toward which the revela
lations of the chemical examination ap
parently tend.
One oPthe examiners, Mr. Emmert, is
known to entertain a deep and bitter jeal
ousy of Professor Demme, the father of
the accused. An anonymous letter pro
duced in court, and in the handwriting of
Madame Emmert, was used by the advo
cate of the prisoner to introduce, or at
least to hint, the frightful suggestion that
the poison found in the body bad been
put there by Dr. Emmert as a means of
vengeance upon the two Demrccs ! Hut
the younger Demme has since avowed
that he himself wrote this letter and
counterfeited Madame Emmert's hand- j
writing in order to throw the law upon
this track ! He maintains, however, that
anonymous letters had previously been
written to himself and to Madame Trum
py, which he believes to have come from
Madame Emert. All this secondary plot
will be unvailed by the examination of
Madame Emmert and by the researches
of experts in handwriting.
Meanwhile the main force of the drama
is concentrated upon the conduct and
character of Madame Trumpy. Whether
Demme be guilty or innocent, it is im
possible to imagine anything more shock
ing than the moral phenomenon which
this personage of the terrible story pre
sents. Madame Trumpy is described as a de
vout Catholic, belonging to that class of
which the author of "Le Maudit" has
drawn so powerful a sketch in his picture
of the female devotees of the parish of St.
Aventin. At once cold and passionate,
ardent and cruel, she appears at the suc
cessive stages of this strange history as
half woman and half panther. She talks
calmly with him whom she accuses of
being her lover about the way in which
he shall conduct the post mortem examina
tion of her husband's dead body ! She
first throws her own daughter if her 6tory
be true, into the arms of her own lover,
and then ruin her peace of mind for life
by publicly exposing the whole fearful
history, it her story be false, she mur
ders the happiness of her child and takes
the life of an innocent man, in order to
gratify the savage thirst of a disappointed
passion. Her demeanor before the tribu
nal speaks terribly against her. It is
described as strangely calm and self-possessed.
That any woman not physically,
mentally, or morally mad should thus
bear herself while trampling under foot
all the instincts not only of maternal ten
derness but of personal shame, is simply
impossible.
" C'est Venus touto entiere a sa proie at
tachee." The blind rage of Phoodra driving her
helplessly into crime and death finds its
modern counterpart in this Swiss woman
of the nineteenth century ; and one is
tempted to ask one's self how far, after all,
we are justified in our habitual boastings
of the absolute moral superiority of our
Christian civilization over that of Greece
and liome, when the vail blown aside for
a moment by Providence from one or
another home in Christendom reveals
such glimpses as this into the hearts of its
inmates.
The trial of Dr. Demme and Madame
Trumpy was still going on when the Aus
tralian sailed. The Augsburg Alloemeine
Zeitumj, of November 3d, says of it :
" The revelations of the first week were
in the highest degree startling and absorb
ing. The trial swallows up the whole
attention of the community. The accu
sed, Demme, seemed during the last two
days more deeply moved than before.
His father Professor Demme, is constant
ly with him. The sympathies of the
public will go with them.
ihe trial will hardly end before Thursday
or Friday of next week. After the evi
dence shall have been put in, it is expect
ed that the pleadings will occupy at least
two da vs."'
A Coos Uxuku iiik Crinoline.
We witnessed an amusing incident on one
of our suburban street, last Saturday. A
fashioneble young lady, got up in the
highest style of the milliner's art, and ar
rayed in all the glory of five dollar a j ard
silk, a twenty dollar bonnet, and a three
hundred dollar shawl, was majestically
sweeping along in the direction of the
Fair Ground, while just behind u little
boy was leading a pet coon.
A countryman in a brown slouched hat
and a linsey woolsey warmus," came
along, followed by a "yallah" dog,
whose nose was scarred diagonally trans
versely and latterly with the scars of many
a fiercely contested battle with members
of the racoon family. Tiger no sooner
saw the ring tailed representative of his
ancient enemy, than he made a frantic
dive for him, accompanied by a furious
bark. Cooney comprehended the situa
tion at a glance, bolted incontinently and
sought a sanctuary beneath the ample
circumference of the young lady's crino
line. The young lady screamed, while tho
dg made rapid circles, snuffing the air,
and evidently bewildered to knmv what
had become of the coon. Tho situation
of the young lady was critical and em
barrassing. She was afraid to move for
fear the coon would bite, and the coon
declined to leave his retreat until the dog
retired. Finally the dog was stoned off,
the boy dragged the coon from his hiding
place, and the young lady went her way
with the lively consciousness of having
expenenceu a new sensauon. ys ior me.
coon he was instantly killed. Indianajyo
lis Journal.
The Cost of Slustitltes. On a
call of 500,000 men it would cost three
hundred and fifty million of dollars to fill
it, at the price per man ($700) now paid
for substitutes in Harttord. And it Con
necticut's quota is 11,000, as it probably
will be, ii would cost the people of our
State seven millions, seven hundred and
seventy thousand dollars, at the same rate.
This tax, provided the quota snouiu be
filled by substitutes at this rate, would be
greater than the entire internal revenue
and tax on foreign importations ; ana mis,
too, for barely securing the men, without
a uniform on their backs, or a ration in
their bands.
If Hussia quailed under an expenditure
of two hundred millions of dollars a year
in the Crimean war, what is to become of
this country one of these days, at the
rate we are sailing? Hartford Times.
fST Prentice says "an industrious
searcher after the man-clous is busy ma
king a collection of tho various forms of
oaths administered to American citizens
under tne present Administration. We
understand that he has already collected
nine hundred and forty-seven varieties.
We don't know whether the collection in
cludes Andy Johnson' variety.
Webster's
LETTER TO HIS MAK1GER,
Washington, March 17th, 1852.
" John Taylor ; Go ahead. The heart
of the winter is broken, and before the
first day of April all your land may be
ploughed. Buy the oxen of Capt. Mars
ton if you think the price fair. Pay for the
hay. I send you a check for $1 60 for these
two objects. Put the great oxen in a
condition to be turned out and fatted.
You have a good horse team, and I think
in addition to this, four oxen and a pair
of four year old steers will do your work.
If you think so, then dispose of the Ste
vens oxen, or unyoke them and send them
to pasture for beef. I know not when I
shall see you, but I hope before planting.
If you need anything, 6uch as guano, for
instance, write to Joseph lireck, Esq,,
and he will send it to you."
" Whatever ground you sow or plant,
6ce that it is in good condition. We
want no pennyroyal crops. ' A little farm
well tilled ' is to a farmer the next best
thing to 'a little wife well willed.' Cul
tivate your garden, lie sure to produce
sufficient quantities of useful vegetables.
A man may half support his family from
a good garden. Take care to keep my
mothers' garden in good order, even if it
costs you the wages of a man to take
care of it. 1 have sent you many garden
seeds. Distiibute them among jour
neighbors. Send them to the stores in
the village, that everybody may have a
part of them without cost. I am glad
that you have chosen Mr. Pike represen
tative He is a true man ; but there are
in New Hampshire many persons who
call themselves whigs are no W'higs at
all, and no better than disunionists. Any
man who hesitates in granting and se
curing to every part of tho country its
constitutional rights is an enemy to the
whole country.
"John Taylor: If one of your boys
should say that he honors his father and
mother, and loves his brothers and sisters,
but still insists that one of them should
be driven out of the family, what can
you say of him but this, that there is no
real family love in him ? You and I are
farmers ; we never talk politics ; our
talk is of oxen ; but remember this :
that any man who attempts to excite one
one part of the country against another,
is just as wicked as he would be who
should attempt to get up a quarrel be
tween John Taylor and his neighbor,
Captain Hurleigh. There are some ani
mals that live bet in the fire ; nnd there
are some men who delight in heat, smoke,
combustion and even tieneral conflajira
tion. They do not follow the things that
make for peace. They enjoy only con
troversy, contention and strife. Have no
communication with such persons, cither
as neighbors or politicians. You have no
more right to say that slavery ought not
to exist in Virginia than a Virginian has
to say that slavery ought to exist in New
Hampshire. This is a question left to
every State to decide for itself ; and if we
mean to keep the States together, we
must leave to every State this power of
deciding for itself.
I think I never wrote you a word be
fore on politics. I shall not do it again.
I only say, love your country, and your
whole country ; and when men attempt
to persuade you to get into a quarrel withl
the laws of other States, tell them that
'you mean to mind your own business,'
and advise them to mind theirs. John
Taylor you arc a free man ; you possess
good principles ; you have a large family
to rear and provide for by your labor,
lie thankful to the Government that does
not oppose you, which does not bear you
down by excessive taxation, but which
holds out to you and yours the hope of
all the blessings which liberty, industry
and security may give. John Taylor,
thank God, morning and evening, that
you were born in such a country. John
Taylor, never write me another word upon
politics. Give my kindest remembrance
to your wife and children ; and when you
look flora your eastern windows upon tho
graves of my family romember that he
who is the author of this letter must soon
follow them to another world.
Daniel Webstek."
C?- Mr. Reynolds, the dramatist once
met a free and easy actor, who told him
that he had passed' three festive days, at
the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness
of , without an invitation. He had
gone there on tho assumption that, as my
lord and lady were not on speaking terms
each would suppose that the other bad
asked him and so it turned out.
c- A gentleman complaining of the
income tax- savs he cannot put on his
boots in the morning without a stamp.
VOL. 11 NO. 48.
Uow Tastes DllTcr.
Remair relates, on the authority of M.
Dela Hire, that a young French lady
could never resist the temptation of eating
a spider whenever she met with one in
her walks. They are said to taste like
nuts, at least this was the opinion of the
celebrated Taria Schurman, who not only
eat them, but justified her taste by say
ing that she was born under scorpia.
Latrille informs us that the astronomer
Lainne was equally fond of this offensive
morsel. Man is truly an omniverous ani
mal, for there is nothing which is disgust
ing to one nation that is not the choica
food of another. Flesh, fish, fowl, in
sect, even the gigantic centipedes of Bra
zil, many of them a foot and a half in
length and a half an inch broad, were
seen by Humbolt to be dragged out of
their holes and crunched alive by the
children.
Serpents of all sorts have been con
sumed as food, as the host of the cele
brated inn at Terracini frequently accost
his guests as politely " requesting to know
if they prefer the eel of the hedge or the
eel of the ditch." To evince this attach
ment to their favorite pursuit most natu
ralists seem to consider it dispensable to
taste and recommend some insect or
other. Darwin assures that the catter
piller of "the hawmoth is delicious ; Kirby
and Spencer think the ant good eating and
push their etomological zeal so far as to
distinguish between the flavor of the ab
domen and thorax j apd ilemir re
commends the the catterpiller of the
plastic gramma as delicious dish. How
much we eat and upon how much we
might live, are curious matters of specu
lation and in an article on the subject in
an English review we find the following
suggestive facts :
The accounts which travelers give of
the quantity of food that can be consumed
are extraordinary. Sir John Ross esti
mated that an Esquimaux will eat per
haps twenty pounds of flesh and oil daily.
Compare this with Valentine's six pound.,
or with Canaro's twelve ounces of solids
and fourteen ounces of wine. Captain
Parry tried as a matter of curiosity bow
much an Esquimaux lad who was scarce
ly full grown would consume, if left to
himself, and weighed the following arti
cles before being given.
He was twenty hours getting through
them and certainly did not consider the
quantity extraordinary : Sea horse-flesh,
hard froze, four pounds four ounces ; do.
do. boiled, four pounds four ounces, bread
and bread dust, one pound and twelve
ounces. To this must be added one and
a quarter pints of rich gravy soup, three
wine glasses of raw spirits, one tumbler
full of strong grog, one gallon of water;
Capt Cochrane, in his Journey through
Russia and Siberian Tartary,' relates that
the Admiral Saritcheff was informed that
one of the yakutis ate in four and twenty
hours, the hind quarters of a large ox,
twenty pounds of fat, and a proportion
ate quantity of melted butter for his drink.
To test the truth of the statement, the
admiral gave him a thick porridge of rice
boiled down with three pounds cf butter,
weighing together twenty eight pounds,
and although the glutton had already
breakfasted, be sat down to it with great
eagerness, and consumed the whole with
out stirring from the spot. Captain Coch
rane also states that he has seen three
Yakutis devour a reindeer at a meal i and
a calf weighing about two hundred
pounds is not two much for a meal for
five of these gluttons.
Some catterpillers cat double their
weight in food ; a cow eats forty-six
pounds daily, a mouse cats eight times
as much in proportion to its own weight
as is eaten by a man. Hut when such
facts are cited, we must bear in mind the
enormous differences in the nature of the
food thus weighed, their relative amounts
of water, and the indtgcstable material.
The same caution is requisite in speaking
of a man's diet.
A greenhorn desires to know why
crockery ware dealers re anlike all other
shopkeepers ; and adde,- very innocently
" because it won't do for them to crack
their goods."
Men speak of men's virtues when
they are dead ; and all toombstones are
marked with epitaphs of good and virtue.
Is there any particular cemetery where
bad men are buried !
C3- A debtor that can't par is apt to
run away. Like lightning, if he can't
fork he bolts.
ey An impertinent fellow wishes to
know if you ever sat down to tea where
skimmed milk was on the table without
Uring asked, " Do you take cream f '