CHAINING A WIFE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 788, 11 April 1910, Page 8

CHAINING A WIFE.

JEALOUS HUSBAND'S STRANGE . CONDUCT. A more extraordinary case of jealous, monomania could hardly be imagined than that which, is revealedin the'treatment which a chemist, living in the. Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, within, a stone's throw of the Steinheil villa, has been, meting out to his wife. The un- : fortunate woman had not been seen for fifteen months,'and the neighbours at last wrote letters to the police, declaring that Mme. Parat was the victim of brutality. : SI. Hamard, chief of the detective service, with a posse of men, accordingly repaired to the pharmacy in the absence of If. Parat, and-finding the inner doors: locked demanded entrance in the name of the law. 'A feeble voice from within replied that the occupant was chained up. Without more ado M. Hamard himself produced a jemmy and prised the lock, to find himself in a darkened chamber, with' fastened shutters, and an oil lamp dimly burning. In a corner was Mme. Parat, with her fifth child in her arms, but she was chained to a.steel plate let into the wall. Her fetters bound her limbs and circled. her neck three times, and were fastened with letter padlocks that could not be opened' without tho keyword. , .. M. Hamard, simply tdre out the plate, and wrapping up the woman in his coat, bore her.off to the police station, where it took'a locksmith'half an hour to set her free. An hour or'two later, her husband .was arrested," much to his astonishment, and was lodged in gaol. When questioned oa to his extraordinary conduct, he said he adored his wife,' and simply took this means of secluding her, in order, that she might not give him any cause, for jealousy. As a matter of fact, the poor woman had never given him the slightest cause for reproof or uneasiness, having been a blameless wife and mother, but ner husband is evidently one of those morbid maniacs against whom the protection, of. the law is quite as necessary as ngamst the most vicious "Apaches."