REVENGE OF A REJECTED LOVER.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1115, 21 November 1883, Page 2

REVENGE OF A REJECTED LOVER.

M Francisqno Sarcey has just favored the readers of the XIX Steele with a dissertation on the delicate subject of professional secrecy, and the obligation it sometimes imposes of telling a lie. The circumstances .of a case cited by him in which the seal of secrecy was broken are of a very dramatic character. A lady, whose daughter was about to be married, having acquired a suspicion that the antecedents of the fiancee were not of tlie most desirable character—that ho had in fact, undermined his constitution by early dissipation—called upon his medical adviser Dr Delpeech, one of the most distinguished professors of the Montpellier Faculty of Medicine,, confided her suspicions to him, and asked if they were well founded. The doctor fenced with the question as well as he could, and tried to avoid giving a direct answer. The lady insisted. “I do not address you as a professional man,” she said, “ but I ask you as the father of a family, would you give your daughter to this young man ?” Overcome by this appeal, the doctor gave a reluctant answer in the negative, and the marriage was broken off. Some days afterwards the carriage in which the doctor used to drive to his class came to a stand before the dcor of the medical school, hut without either the physician or the coachman, who were both found lying dead on the road at some distance behind, each with a bullet lodged in a vital part. The circumstances of the murder were shrouded in mystery for n lime, but eventually the dead body of a young man who had blown his brains out was found lying in a room, the windows of which looked on to the scene of the assassination. It was the body of the young man whom Dr Delpeech said ho would not accept ns a son in-law, and there could of course be no reasonable doubt that he was the assassin.