DRAMA OF SHOT LOVER

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1929, Page 7

DRAMA OF SHOT LOVER

PARIS, December 23. A love drama, raro in the annuals of the of the Paris courts, had its climax at the Scienc Assizes yesterday when Mine, Delory, a married women of Russian birth, was sentenced to five years’ solitary confinement for shooting her lover, a young engineer officer, Lieut. Gosset. Mme. Delory as 40 years of age; Lieut Gosset was 26. They lived on opposite sides of tnc same, street in Paris. One day the young officer saw two pretty girls at the balcony of a window facing his own. He smiled at them and waved his hand. The girls’ mother promptly ordered her daughters away, but took their place at the window. So started the liaison bet win Mine. Delory and Lieut. Gosset.

A few days after the window incident Mine. Delory dropped a letter in the street at Lieut. Gosset’s feet. He picked it up, but finding it was written in Russan ho asked a- Russian taxicabdriver to translate it and then got him to write a reply. MOTHER’S “NEVER.” An intrigue ensued which led tMane. Delorv, several months later, shooting the young officer dead in his room. She afterwards returned home, dined with her husband and children as usual, and then went to the polio" station and gave herself up. The story of the young officer’s liaison with the 40-vears-old mothci was told in liis diary, in which Mine. Delory was referred to as “my passionate sweetheart.” One of the last ei tries read. “I. must find something to do if she comes. Otherwise lam lost.” The murderess broke into tears in the dock, and stretching out her hands appealingly said: “J beg bis mother’s uirdou.” Lieut. Gosset’s mother, who was in court, jumped to her feet and shouted, “No, no. Never 1”