DWARF’S VENGEANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9068, 7 February 1908, Page 2

DWARF’S VENGEANCE.

ESCAPES FROM LOOKED ROOM TO SHOOT HER LOVER.

‘Paris, Decembre 15. A diminutive woman, Jeanne Keller, aged 32, standing 4ft. 9in in her boots, was tried at the Paris Assize Court yesterday wilful murder of her lover, a young man named Jules Eopp. It seems that last year she was engaged as cook in a household where her mistress used to show her to visitors as a phenomenon. Among these guests was Jules Kopp, who induced her to go and live with him. Subsequently he broke off relations and became engaged to another woman. The dwarf returned to work as a cook, but so persistently declared that she would kill her former lover that her mistress locked her up in a room, thinking that her passion would pass. She escaped by the window, bought a revolver, and practised shooting for an hour. Then she took train to the suburb of Colombse, where Kopp was in business. She waited till he left his office at night, and then fired four shots at him. One pierced his brain, killing him instantly. When an angry crowd gathered she sneered at their shouts, and gesticulated contemptuously at the dead man. At the police station she said., “I am glad he is dead. ’ ’ She presented a curious spectacle in Court, weeping quietly between two stalwart guards. With her rosy cheeks and lips, and dark eyes almost hidden beneath long lashes, she looked like a large sized doll. Her position evidently touched the jury, who acuitted her on the ground that her feelings had been outraged.