NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

WRONG MAX KILLED. PARIS, Xov. 2. A husband’s mad jealousy caused the death this morning of an engineer who was a total stranger to him and innocent of any intrigue. M. Pierre Largeteau, who was one of the leading young electrical engineers of Franco and a fertile inventor, was on the way to his office when he was accosted by a workman, who, standing in front of him, said: “Why did you take my wife away from mo?” “What are you talking about ?” M. Largeteau demanded: “f don’t know you.” i “You have already gone away with her I wire,” said the workman. M. Largeteau shrugged his shoulders and pushing the man aside, walked on. A moment later two revolver shots rang out and the engineer fell fatally wounded. After a desperate struggle with an angry crowd which wished to lynch the assassin, policemen took him to a online station, while the engineer was conveyed by ambulance to hospital, where he died. At the police station n-.r. tragic mistake became known. The workman, who declared that he was a carpenter named Olion. said his wife had been unfaithful and had 'left him twice to go with a waiter named Marcel. “I found the photograph of her lover,” Clion said, “and I went to look for him. I thought il recognised him in the man 1 shot. That is why T killed him. I am sorry that T made a mistake.” Clion has been sent to prison to await his trial for murder. M. Largeteau leaves a young widow and two children.

TRIAL MARRIAGE. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. With due religious ceremonies Mr Aubrey C. Roselle, a 20-years-old university undergraudate, is to bo united on Thanksgiving Pay at Kansas City in the .bonds of “companionate” matrimony with Josephine, the 18-vears-ohl daughter of Mr L. Haldenian Julius, an author and publisher. With the consent of their parents, the bride and bridegroom, after assuming their companionate relations, are to continue their college careers unhampered by economic burdens, and are to have their homes with thcii respective parents. In the words of Mr Haldenian Julius sen., they are to come and go as they please, meeting and living in the house of whichever set of parents they may momentarily prefer. If, later, they find their companionate relations fail to give happiness, the union is to be dissolved by divorce, but if they are successful they will eventually establish a home of their own. The Rev. Mr Birkhead, who is to conduct the ceremony, describes it as “a. human agreement admitting the possibility of failure.”