TEiUUBLE TRAGEDY IN PARIS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1815, 14 April 1888, Page 3

TEiUUBLE TRAGEDY IN PARIS

♦ A fearfui tragedy — the hero of whicl was Theodore Popol, a younc Raealii officer ; tho heroine, oao Ja^nne Purron d a figuranto at the Tnoatsv-j of iho Ohatoii c D'Sau, barely out of Jib? teotis— w.* rj en.c'ed fsc;nt'y In Paris. Tiio Muscovite who was the son of p. prolate of the church j and was m Paris on regular l«ave, m-idi the acquaintance of hia fair flame at om of the ot*ii)3 kept open m the small hoar of the night for tho accommodation 01 those who are addicted to " going ihi 7 paco." He courted her frr.na the vpr^ ; first for what the Fronch call le bon moth 3 — that ia to Bay, he wanted her to imrrj , him— but tho young w.>mia hai vory different ideas of life, and troated all hit proposals to bee 'Die M~i !:->im Popi-l and 1 to accompany him to Rum* wi'.h ridicule, t At an early hour of thi morning the 5 couple, with a dre33makor- ? who was aintimate friond of Jobnm Perron, botook them3elva3 to a f ehionable restaurant, where they euppod. Popel, who had b3en drinking freely, returned repeatedly to the charge and besought tho figurant to mirry him. At 6 o'olook the party, »fer providing themselves with a bottle of brandy for refreshment on the road, took a cab and drove to a small hotal, where a room waa en^a^ed, to which they all repaired, Joanne Perron fearing to be left alone with the Russian, who waa m a Btate of terrible t xoltomjr.t. There, after emptying half the brandy bottle, Popel took two ringa from his pocket, and presenting one t) Joanne, declared solemnly that he had married her, and called on her friend to witncEß the fact. Ha then said that he wia'ied to be left alone with his w fe, and aa the .dressmaker hesitated ho kiokad her out of the room Popof aojured the woman to accompany him to Ruaab, and finding that Bhe parsisted m har rofuial he look a revolver from his pocket, and after firing three shots at her, tntnod the wo-ip;;n to hiß own temple, and fell down dead. Two of Jeanne's teeth havo been broken and one of the bul'ots is lodged m her palate, while another has pierced her breast.