GREAT PARIS MYSTERY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8867, 18 July 1907, Page 4

GREAT PARIS MYSTERY.

Extraordinary stories are in circn lation. regard mg the death of Mine, de Forain, the wife of a physician, in a suburb of Paris. The dead woman’s sister alleges against the doctor that he made away with his wife by a slow poisoning process. The police have searched the house, and taken possession of several phials and powders. „ _ . Ten years ago M. de Forain, who was a poor medical student in one of the Paris hospitals, eloped, with a young woman and was married in London. He returned to Paris to set up a medical practice with £4OO which his wife had. Meanwhile his mother had died, leaving him a fortune that placed him beyond the necessity of work. He thereupon renounced medicine, and the couple went to live in a suburb, where he intended to spend his days in gardening. M. de Porain is said to have gradually grown colder towards his wife, land to have neglected her. Finally [he sought to have the marriage an--1 nulled, but was unsuccessful After three years’ separation Mme. do Forain returned to live with her husband last October. A few days later she began to complain of feelin# unwell. Her liusfacincl uppenrecl concerned and tended his wife apparently with the utmost devotion. Mme. de Forain appears to have told her sister that her husband’s prescriptions only made her worse, and finally she was taken to the hospital with typhoid fever. She got well again, and returned home In January. M. do Forain continued to prescribe for his wife and some of the powders he gave her are declared by her sister to have contained powdered enamel. He also injected morphia until she said, “Do you want t o kill mo?” He answered, -No, It is to make yon well. ” One Monday her husband had her taken to St. Antoine Hospital. She said to her sister, “This time he has given me a strong dose. I am done for.- Do not let mo bo buried without a post mortem.” Two hours later she died. . , , ~ The police have seized letters, which show that the doctor was corresponding with a young woman with whom he is said to be in love. The police have found the following letter from her addressed to M. do Forain : _ “I am eighteen. I love yon. Yoxi told me that yon loved me, that 1 was beautiful, but I could not come to you. Are you the master? Could you not turn out that vulgar woman? Why will yon not toll her to go. Why do yon not tell her that yon love me?” Further on she says _ “This woman is in the way. Why did you hide your slavery from me. Why did you make me hope? I repeat, this woman is in the way. I suffer inexpressible grief. I love you, O my beloved!”