SHOT AT THE PIANO.
Jealous French Surgeon kills an Officer’s Wife. Mme. Ch\de, wife of an officer in the commissariat, was shot dead on November Bth at Blida, Algeria, by Dr Marcel Thivc*, assistantsurgeon of the First African Chasseurs, who afterwards shot himself through the head. Thivot, who recently returned to Blida after an absence of several months, went to pay a call on Mme. Chide, who was a fine musician. He asked her to play a Beethoven sonata, and it was while she was seated at the piano i £imf'6e shoTTiefr'^' — .Alarmed by the noise, a maidservant rushed into the room. Mme. Chide was already dead, and Thivot was bleeding from the temple. The doctor admitted that he had killed Mme. Chide in a fit of jealousjr. He is not expected to recover.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1907, Page 3
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134SHOT AT THE PIANO. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1907, Page 3
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