DYING MAN’S JOKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 28 December 1907, Page 3

DYING MAN’S JOKE.

| ftwigs Interview with His Wife’s H L ' . * (Lover. * " . ;» <r Paris, Cctober 27. ; ,A; remarkable story was unfolded .1 abAfehcon yesterday, when Mme. 1 , : wife of a country : doctor* was charged with murder- ;■ |ag her husband. 1 - Guillaume and his wife married f in the greatest! poverty, and lived %r most happily' until they became ;' comparatively well-off and settled V: I3®£jbe village of Ceton. There -' ts|rwife started an intrigue with a ; InriAmannfacturer. who gave her political support. The |*teosfaan secretly mocked at the and this coming to upHraatter’s knowledge, he Broke Pofßiie intrigue. r. l i A dispute concerning him ocfurred between the doctor and his t ’ wife." - Gillaume finally threw the. vvoman out bt his study by forcb. .. §he returned iwith a revolver, and, standing in j the doorway, shot r Bim. 'f ’ inortally wounded, man Guillaume managed Stagger Ijo.’tbe village inn, # the : landlady remarked isO his. paleness; 1 He parried the tgtipn with a joke, saying, “I j&eoicn some plums and find jmhard to digest,” and ordered Pflrarriage 7$ take him to the -town? While the vehicle got ready his wife’s came in, was told’the truth, ■‘“wad tinted. Shortly afterwards .' Guillaume -expired. ■ ... At 4 the trial Mme. Guillaume’s ■ counsel made a moving plea, declaring that the wife’s sins. % ere. r- nothing, to her husband’s.^;The v woman was acquitted, and deceived '"rah” ovation on.leaving the/ Court.