PRIEST'S LOVE TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1822, 7 August 1913, Page 7

PRIEST'S LOVE TRAGEDY.

SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL. fly Telegraph—Prefs Association—Copyright Paris, August 6. The trial of the woman Alice Crespy for tho murder of tho Abbe Chassaing, in January last, engrosses tho attention of .the public. Crespy was hysterical and a divorcee. She was ngc.l forty. The deceased Abbe was tall and handsome. At the trial Crespy told how sho met the Abbe in the Confessional, after her divorce. He then impressed upon her tho Church's view on tho subject, and adjured her to abandon her young poet lover. She then related how their confidences in tho Confessional ripened into intimacy. The Abbe became her lover and their intimacy continued for three years. Then the Abbe, desperate at the thought of his removal to another parish, shot himself after a farewell interview. 1 She denied that she had told a dressmaker that she longed to be tho heroine in a lovo drama in order to advertise her poems. The medical evidence was to tho effect that it was impossible that tho priest could have shot himself, though one doctor considered that such a theory was not impracticable. Tho Bishop of deceased's diocese gave evidence that the reason for tho Abbe's, transfer was no disgrace, but promotion.