A Wife's Awful Ordeal.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 42, 17 July 1885, Page 4

A Wife's Awful Ordeal.

A REAL 'EXPER[I«2NCG. WniCH ItKADS AS 11OMANTLO AS A "N.OVED.

CaiiAls, Me., March .7. — -A ronianmc story, equalling m interest the plot of'" The Celebrated O;w, : ' is creating liuich excitement m. Eistcrn Maine. The-hevid ofono of tlie oldest and most respectable families m the Stale died several years ago, leaving a property m real estates <in;l m business investment., valued at $49,200, to hi-* daughter, aged seventeen. She was the last and v6utigosbmGml>ei"bf a family of se.ven children, and her father was the v lust man of his race," .-is he used to "siiy. Hedittd whiioho was attend ing school m Boston.- Her guardian, Louis Roche, was :\ Frenchman of .somewhat- doubtful charactei, though her father hud ilw. utmost confidenco m him. Roche, m faci, had mamiged the old man's business for him for several ye:>r.< before liis dputh. The will gave §10,000 to the Frenchman ; antl the rc.^t of tliH property to the daughter. Roche induced the young -woman to. marry -'him before sho had '■iiiveil at the age of eighteen. Two -rears after wuvd.-.the property was soM and Roche went to Europe. They •settled mi Lyons,. n<'iu' his ancestral home, ami soon after their arrival a daughter was horn to them. Six other 'children- were afterward born to them, four sons "nnd two daughters. Four years ago the lust of the children died, and "Roche, tiring of his wife, induced her to convey all her property to him, arid he cut her throat and threw her body into the Seine: She was rescued by a; peasant, and her wounds were dressed, but she had lost her memory ; had even, for-o-oLten her name; The. peasant foil m loveMv-iblv her/and they were' niiirriedList year slie had the cholera and came near dying. While returning health she regained her' memory. The peasant interested wealthy people m her case, and an action was begun m the courts against Roach e. She is now m this State m. search of witnesses to aid her m recovering her property Her husband's brutal treatment will cost him his liberty for several years. A. decree of divorce wilt be granted her On her return to France, and she will then legalise her marriage with the peasant* who is said to be an estimable and intelligent man. Several people from New England will accompany Mrs Roche on her return 10 France. — Special to " St. Louis Globe-Democrat."