Three Terrible Murders

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 139, 17 May 1890, Page 4

Three Terrible Murders

— o- . , Thr o terrible murders have ]ust been committu i m Paris. One was on the Boulevard Mont Parn isee, where Ernest Jficard, a middle aged higfi'iy reapßoted official, killed Maria Bebut— an accomplished young person, "who waa universally taken as hisjiawf ul wife' —to her further" trouble" from" "tlie" ravages . of a painful throat disease. This was how lie did it: Between 3 and 4 a.m. oh the last, day but one of the week, Maria asked for a drink of tisane, and M. Picarji went to the kitchen, prepared it, and gave it to' her. She had sot taken more than a few spoonf ullV when she exclaimed that. ,• You've made a mistake ! What have you given me?' ; As M. Picard made no reply, the poor wpman cried out in -terror, 'Ah! you've poisoned me !\ The second , murder /was even more horrible aud; 'Parisian.' It occurred in the Btie Mange. Madame Mayeer, a woman in easy circumstances, emptied, a baain cont^tiuibg petroleum over her husband's head as he was writing,, and. set. fire -to his clothes before he recoveied from his surprise. Her then rushed out on the staircase, Irat his faitMul spouse had armed hefseU with a ievolver to 'make sure,' and fired at him repeatedly as he ran. -The third crime' was' 'the murder of a young wife who insisted upon going to the opera ball without her husband, AllUhese tragedies took place in ;o.he."| morning— rather an excessive number/ -even for Paris. '