SUICIDE IN A TAXI.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1645, 11 January 1913, Page 6

SUICIDE IN A TAXI.

.' t, J : A PAEIS TRAGEDY.: : '■'■ ' ■■■¥?.::■■ : ;, v'-^-:-'";"v- ; -. .The chauffeur heard the sound cf a detonation, but he' imagined it came from the bursting of a tyre in .the car behind,' and swept on." When he came to ■ the destination-which had been given, his' "faro" remained inside, and did.not'step out. So the chauffeur, got down from the car and opened the door. The man woa dtad, with the pistol, on the floor beside him..- .-■:■ '..', . '"--■■' .-'./■/' •••.''•' An examination of the dead body showed that it was that of M. Adrien Floren-' tin-Pointereau, a town councillor of Arcueil, France. When the police .sent a messenger-to M. Pointereau's house to inform the relatives, no' one answered. Tho messenger departed, -intending to return later in the day. But later a telegram was received from the brother' of the dead:man, giviiig the\news that the sonder. had that moment received a letter from -his brother, stating that the dead inan, before taking his own, life, had taken that of . his wife. It .seems, .that monetary troubles had of late preoccupied him, and that he had talked much of suicide. ..

His . wife had endeavoured to console him arid to persuade him that "the dark hour would pass. But he had only grown the more gloomy in.his resolution, and had apparently resolved that if he quitted this life '■ he' would not leave her behind him to, endure its miseries. And so he shot her while-she slept, wrote to. his brother wh'at'ho ; h'ad done, and left, for Paria There -he took a taxi-cab, and as it piissed: along the streets of Montpa'rnasso hi) messed the pistol to his temple, as earlier he had T>ressed it to the temple of his beloved, and ended his life. .