A French Tragedy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1471, 3 October 1885, Page 5 (Supplement)

A French Tragedy .

Frenchmen are keeping ttie'English market ; well supplied witli tragedies. The supply seems unfailing, and the latest, is a fair specimen of the amufe .stock-, on wfiicli the lovers of the sensational > are fedi ; A ••married- man named Gpuiiray, has upset the happines, of two' ;f airnlies .; by coveting his neighbour's jwife, and the guilty pair have ended their lives together. Having passed their last evening m cornpaay at- the theatre, they betook themselves: to the home of the lady, where Coudra^: ; shot his mistress _ , ..- and shen blew put his own brains: They ' were,thoughtfulenough;to leave written „'■■ apologl^f asking; the pai"don of their .res- '"'■ pecjive partnejrs. Monsieur Bessiere, the. husband, was awakened by the noise of the shots which ended their wretched li ves, and rushing into the shop below his bedroom discovered the raur-,; dered woman and the suicide stretched' upon the floor. Entire prostration has fallen upon M. Bessiere, and this is not to be w;ondered at, for such a and realistic nightmare as this is suffithe equilibrium of any 7 brain. "——V v; :-:. -'■;*:;:;- ■' : .-/