Punishing Infidelity

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 44, 15 April 1884, Page 3

Punishing Infidelity

A Passenger by tbe French steamer Caledouien, from Sydney to Marseilldes, write* to a Sydney paper : — " The most remarkable of oit passengers was an extremely goodlooking young fellow, who at one time attained quite an European reputation for the unique character of a tragedy in 'which he took part Discovering his wife in au act of infidelity, he killed her lover, cut out Lib liver, fried it and ma c his wife eat it. 'I he crime thrilled Knglanrl ami Prance, and he was sentenced to <iea*h, which was commuted to life im?>risotimrnt at JVew Caledonia. After a few years residence th'-re, his exqu'site and touching moWies, {•laved on rame musical instrument, attracted th* after, tioo ofthefiovernor, and who finding lhat he had conducted himself remarkably well had ( Frau«f«s* liberated and restored to La IV lie France. I obtained from Fran coi s a history of his crime. I asked Lim how he 6O young, so good-lookin<r so amiable in manner, could have thought of « nd earned out so oyquisite a mode of punishment? secondly, why he did not kill bis wife also ? lie did not reply o my first question, but to the second he said that he intended to kill his wife, after she hod her supper on the tried liver ; hut meanwhile his temper and passion cooled down.