A FRENCH TRAGEDY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 3

A FRENCH TRAGEDY.

A terrible crime nas l>een perpetrated at Courzien (Rhone). M and Mdme. Blanc. _i^vo<>C the, j pmprietors«inUlie c|immUTi /bad |)»pn living- on bad* terms?' for u • a ny months past, and a suit for separation was instituted before the , Tribunal X , of Lyons. Both wore mulcrie'a^ed^an'd of a jealo.is and passionate temejir,.inent. and their homestead was tlie .Qoysisinta-ect'iie oi" mutual *veorjtmnntiis&AJ Sirfce Miiu>MwL\\hk-d}s magistrates, Blanc had way to fits of me ancholy, and had vainly endeavoured to induce M^mo. liiisic to forget the past and to consent to their living to» > ether r _&»-ai,iv r .lip.w,t-,vp rem: i ed infieu.H*.' H- sWdt^iiiy'safe way to a votlent passion and threaten "d her life. " £ince you absolutely wish to quit me,'' he "?aifV v and v to ' carry off your box of IfiO.OOOf, leiv,ing me as poor .aq, when if muri'ted, you, I shall refuse to acknowledge the child whkji you had- before, o,ur.. marriage. ' But it i's J too' fate, lie bears my name, and h;is ciis^aced it by deserting 1 his rog'imont. But }'°v shall not cave, and si:ic:e you insistl { : mu3t act Wh'reßoiutiott:""'He witli-1 drew and remained shut up for the re- 1 mainder ol the day. On therftrtkrwing anoraihgV se* J :?n'g ; 'hfs wife quietly packing* up to leave, he went livid -with anger, into an adjoining 1 room, whence lie :.;e merged > itfiili'' a l ' fcix^chambered' revolver. Madame Fihwic—hrnt" her back towarHy tie Itr'nrd-orer, 'who' ; without the slightest warning, shoxtrrrrin the '-sltull- '»•■ *«He- '-turned round, ami was advancing; t wards him when he 'siik'-Aer w^itf^ii^li&sifleJ : Mi'&p«W' woman, who immediately fell to the^ ground in an exhiiußted~c"^rtriiTton, jcial&d fwa^siSiaftfe^'bitid &trt'!or her' brother. _ Hv a supreme »ffirt.she ♦HiddeiYly wisefrl^^r^yi f'h'iid threw her arms around the inuiderej^XiUsing herself towards his neck. A terrible strug- vlejtliejkAiisi*^. •/$# i»ujfder|r fired a<eKrdlt*.i.ev*tlie Mot «si-azw% his victim's hair, and he then dischartted hii^evoUer. Lap -her luu^d. not before she had severely bitter, his arm. Ihe pain v^«io'stetJt'iftat>fcno! ruffian dropped the weapon, and exasperated at the resistance lie had met Vfth.'fetl wTtIT bllmTTury on" fhe "a'p^" parently helpless form ot liis wife, whom lie endeavoured to strangle. This led to another fearful struggle The woman succeeded in dragging--9£frself,-«ttll chi!^i#g|}fitf I| "a^:itßan 1 l Hmo the^freet Oii- me rreig^burl h.p' pearing-, Blanc hastened to his room, and locked himself in, committingsuicide in the most, deermined manner, having twice di -charged his revolver, the H'St ?hot lodging- in his head, and the second in his heart