For his wife's sake.

Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1894, Page 3

For his wife's sake.

Our Paris correspondent relates fthe following true story which conveys its own moral. M. Auguste Dupre, has to his oost, lately discovered that his wife was gambling at the races, and his behaviour under the trial is as much to be commended as his misfortune is to be pitied. It seems that he was in the employ of a maritime •gent, and used nightly to convey to » Bank the cash received during the day, save on Saturdays, when, owing to his not leaving the office until late, he generally took home the money and placed it in the bank on . the following Monday. One evening in August last he carried home the cash as usual, a sum amounting to 11.000fr., and left it in a cupboard, but upon recounting it, two days later, to his horrcr he dis •o\ered that a part of it was missing. Immediately his young wife confessed to having taken 200fi\, of it to bet with, adding that though she had lost that sum she would soon regain it. Shortly she lost the whole amount, ll.OOOfr. Her husband thereupon sought his employer and declared that, by gambling, he y himself had squandered the total sum -entrusted to his keeping. He has now been condemned to two yean' imprisonment, though Catherine Dupre", who is acquitted, declares that she is alone to blame.