MURDER AND SUICIDE IN PARIS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1004, 2 March 1883, Page 4

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN PARIS.

♦ A terrible crime was committed in the Rue de Richelieu, Paris, on Dec. 12. It appears that about seven o’clock, a woman, with blood profusely streaming from her breast, was seen leaning out ofi a window on the fourth floor of No. 89, and crying “ Help—murder !” A medical man who lives in the same house and another neighbour at once hastened upstairs, and before reaching the door of the apartment whence the cries proceeded, were met by the servant belongto it. The three then, entering the dwelling, went to the room at the window of which the woman had been seen, and there found her extended, with nothing on but her chemise, in a pool of blood across her bed, at the, foot of which a wet dagger was

lying., A moment’s examination showed that she had ceased to breathe. On ' going •into the adjoining room, they found a man bleeding from a bullet wound in the head, lying dead on the floor, his right hand still clutching a newly-discharged revolver. On the chimney-piece was the velvet sheath of the dagger -with Which the woman had been killed, and a letter written in a firm hand, addressed to a police commissioner, and another letter begging a Jewish benevolent society to see to the burial of the two bodies. The man proved to.be one Bepapqrt, a diamond merchant, and the woman his daughter —a girl 18 years of age. From the indications there is no reasonable doubt ■that she was murdered by her father, and. that immediately afterwards he committed suicide. Bepaport and his daughter, who is stated to vbe? of great personal attractions, had for some time lived there, and were well known and respected by their neighbours. The motive for the deed has not transpired, but rumour says that it is to be attributed to the fatherV shame at the abandonment of his daughter by a man who had seduced her under promise of marriage.