A PARISIAN TRAGEDY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1715, 21 November 1887, Page 2

A PARISIAN TRAGEDY

A very exalting drama was enacted at a houae In Bae Haxo, Paris, Iti oooapint, a wealthy manufacturer, had married hi* daughter to the an of a large landowner, living In the Rue de Tournelles. fie had great difficulty m inducing the girl to conßent to the matoh, for the reason that, unknown to her father, she had for two years been carrying on a desperate .flirtation with his cashier. Nor did tha marriage put an end to the intrigue* Oo the afternoon after the wedding the br&g met her lover, and afterwards almo_c daily accompanied him to a small h<itel fa the Roe de Belleville. The lady alway* declared that she had merely gone to see her father, bat ea Monday something fa her manner led her husband to entertain suspicions as to her condnofc, and on Tuesday afternoon when she left him he followed her. She proceeded to her father's house, and finding that he was cot at home, she went into the office, where the cashier was sitting alone, boon afterwards the husband entered tha room, and seeing that hia worst fears were confirmed, produced a revolver, and fired on his wife's lover, icflicting a severe wound m the nape of the neok. He then took to fight, »nd, returning to his own home* hanged himself m his bedroom. He was* however, cut down ere life was extinct, and although he is still In a oritioal state* hi B recovery seems probable. As for the cashier, he la hovering between life and death.