A Parisian Sensation.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 140, 19 May 1885, Page 3

A Parisian Sensation.

■ The Figaro tnH other papers published , details of the following most senna* • tioual drama which they allfgd has just occurred m Paris io the family ot a wealthy and wellkuowu American residing near the Avenue dv Buisde Bologne. The married couple lived most happily together for several years, but recently the husband discovered his wife guilty of clandestine relutions with ;•. the gardener. T«u days Inter ho found iv one of his wife's dresses a letter from the gardener, containing the following sentence:—" Poisou : your husband, and we will flee toother to New York, where we will live happily." The husband said nothing. In silence he awaited the moment for a terrible revenge. On February 22, as the husband and wife were, goiug to bed, the wife placed, according to custom, two glasses of sugar and water, one for herself and one for her husband, on the dressiog-tablei year the bed— the wife, u» she had always done, putting the sugar iv the water. Tlie husband watched the operations, betraying no uuu&ual expression. ( Just an the wife was al-out to drink the husbanJ asked her to baud him a silk handkerchief that was hangiug on the back of a chair. As his wife turned to take the handkerchief her husband •adoitly reversed tlie tray, upon v which were placed the two glasses, so the due iuteuded for him stood iv place of that intended fur his wife. The kutfbaud and " wife drank at the same moment. A* the husband, . af ti*r emptying his glass, calmly replaced it ou the dressing-table, his wife fell to the floor siiriekiug m agony. She had swallowed the dose of strychniuo that she hud with her own hands, pi epaced for . heir. liusband.^ Tht» ' ■ affair caused a great sensation. The wife is not : d«ad yet, but, is suffering terribly. An official, inquiry is being instituted, and the husband and gardener ' are both under urn st.