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http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Cordelia_Viau.html
Marie Cordelia Poirier (nee Viau) was born on June 22, 1865 in Ville de Ste-Scholastique, a village in Canada’s Quebec Province. She married Isidore Poirier, 10 years her senior, who was a carpenter and cabinet maker, at Saint-Canut on November 4, 1889. The marriage was childless. Cordelia could read and write and was a good musician, playing the church organ. The couple lived in a house that Isidore had built and Cordelia worked as a seamstress to help with the family income. Isidore was a devout Catholic and both were active in the local church.
It was at the church that Cordelia met Samuel Parslow who was 36 at the time of his execution and was unmarried. He worked for the Poirier’s as a handyman, helping Isidore with his carpentry business and also helping out round the house. Isidore often had to work away from home, when he could not get business locally. In September 1895, he was working in Fresno, California when he received a letter from his parish priest, Fr. Pinault, telling him to come home as there were problems in his marriage. Although Fr. Pinault does not accuse Cordelia of infidelity as such, the inference is clear. As is so often the case, it seems that everyone in the village knew that Cordelia was having an affair with Parslow, except, of course, Isidore.
On Sunday November 21, 1897, Isidore was at home in Saint-Canut and was sleeping. Cordelia went to church and Parslow joined her there. They got back to the marital home around 3 p.m. and an hour later Cordelia left to visit her parents and Parslow went to tend to his elderly mother.
On the following day Cordelia returned to the village but went straight to church to play the organ at a wedding. When she went home she could not get into the house. She asked her neighbour, Noah Bouvrette for help and he managed to gain access through a window. Isidore’s body was found on the bed. He had been stabbed repeatedly and his throat had been slashed.
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