A Terrible Revenge

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 133, 25 April 1885, Page 3

A Terrible Revenge

•» — The Figaro -and other papers publish details of the following most sensational . drama, Jwhich they allege has 1 just occurred' in Paris in the fwnily of a wealthy and wellknown American residing new the Avenue dv Bois de Boulogne. The married couple lived mpat happily together for, several. years,-: but recently tha husband, discovered : his wife guilty of clandestine relation with the gardener. Ten days later lie found in one of his wife's dresses a letter from the gardener, containing tiie following sentence :— " Poison your hhsband, and we will -flee together to . Now York, where wa ; will Uto happily." The husband said nothing. In silence he awaited the moment for a terrible revenge. On February the 22nd as the husband and wife were, going* to bed the wife placed qpcordihg to custbm two glasses ojf sugar, and water, one for herself and .one for her husband, on tbe dressing* table, . near the bed — tbe wife, as she had always done, patting the sugar in the water. The husband watched the operations betraying, no unusual expression. Just as his wife was about to drink the husband asked her to hand him a silk handerehief that was hanging on the back- of a chair. As bis wife tntned to take handkerchief her husband adroitly reversed the tray upon which were placed the two glasses, so the one intended for his wife came tei * him 'is; a drink. The husband and wife clrank at the same jgcqpgntiv • ;As .'the husband, ; aftei emptying his glass, calmly replaced il on the dressing table, his wife fell tc ths. Am .shripking in agony. . Sip Md swallowed the do se of sfavchninc that ahff'nad'* #ith her own hands prepared for hei^hueband. The af aii caused a great sensation . The wif< iS hot dead yet, but is -rafTering terribly AVoffifcial inquiry is^^beiitig. instituted mi fiie husband fand ' JS^fe^* $*< both .under arrest.