TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 3

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

A terrible .rime was committed in the ivue de Richelieu, Pr.ris. on 12th December. If. appears that about 7 <? clock a woman, with blood profusely streamiog fro n her breast, was seen [ leaning out a. 1 ' » window of the fourth •floor of No. 89, uud crying "Mel])!" "Murder!" A medical m.m who livein the same h«.-use and another neighbour immediately hastened upstairs, and before the «ioor of the apartment were met by the servant belonging to it. Tive three then, entering tbe dwelling, writ to the room at the i window of which the woman had been keen, and -here fotind her extended, with nothing on but her chemise, in a |KK)I of blood, across her bed, at tbe loot of which a wet dagger was lying.! i A moment's examination shewed that: she had ceased to breathe. On going into the adjoining room they found a man bleeding from a bullet wound ir. the head lying on the floor, his right , hand still clutching a newly-discharged revolver. On the chimneypiece was \ the velvet sheath ol the dagger with which the woman had been killed, and a* letter written in a firm hand, addressed to a police commissioner, and another letter begging a Jewish bene volent society to see to. the burial of the two bodies. The man proved to be one Repaport, a diamond merchant, and the woman his daughter— a girl 18 years of age Fn tn the indications there is no reasonable doubt that she was «iurdered by her father, and thm immediately afterwards he committed suicide. Repaport and his daughter, who is stated to be of great personal attractions, had for some time lived there, and were well-known and res- ! pected by their neighbours. The i motive for the deed has not transpired, j but rumour says that ir is to be attri- j buted to the father's shame at the j abandonment of his daughter by a ' man who had seduced her under pro- i raise of marriage. — Telegraph. j