LEAP TO DEATH.
REVENGE ON WIFE. BILLIARDS DISALLOWED. PARIS. February 21. After a quarrel with his wife because she forbade his playing billiards Gaston Orpholan climbed to- the second platform of the Eiffel Tower at night time and signalled to the police to fetch his wife. He declared his intention of precipitating himself at her feet. His wife watched Gaston calmly chainsmoking cigarettes until five o’clock struck, when he jumped and was killed instantly. The suicide caused a sensation in Paris. Orpholan was a chimney sweeper, and had been drinking. He le'ft his wife’s bedroom at 3 a.m. find ran to the Eiffel Tower.
Two gendarmes rushed to him, gesticulating, but Gaston escaped from their clutches and climbed up 380 ft. The gendarmes meanwhile brought the file brigade. A big crowd quickly assembled, including Gaston’s' wife, but the police hid her behind a tree, judging it better that Gaston should not know she was present.
Finally Gast,on stood upright, momentarily. There was a sigh of relief amongst the vast crowd but -t turned to shrieks of horror when Gaston hurled himself into spue?.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5092, 23 February 1927, Page 2
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183LEAP TO DEATH. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5092, 23 February 1927, Page 2
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