PARIS COURT TRAGEDY
WIPE SHOT BY HUSBAND. FA 11JNG RECONCILIA TION. London, January 27. The “Daily Express’ ” Paris eorrespondenf reports a sensation in a city court. A policeman being sued for divorce, shot his wife dead before the eyes of the Judge. After the wife had described her sufferings, the husband admitted his changed. I promise to treat her ihanged. I promise to treat her kindly. T did not know before what i! was to be lonely.” The judge asked : “Will you give him a chance Madame?” “No," replied the woman. “I cannot live with him again.” A- sin- (urued away her husband pill his hand into his pocket and drew a revolver. There was a flash and Ihe wife fell wit Is a wound ill her throat. Before lie could be overpowered, the husband fired two bullets into his own head and fell across his wife’s body.
She is dead, bid the husband is expected to recover.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2688, 29 January 1924, Page 3
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158PARIS COURT TRAGEDY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2688, 29 January 1924, Page 3
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