A WOMAN SCORNED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 3

A WOMAN SCORNED

REJECTED SWEETHEART KILLS LOYER UNDER EYES OF BRIDE. Rouen, November' 4. Three weeks ago Georges Duval was married at Gaen to the sweet- ■ heart of his boyhood days, Mlle. Elise Goupil, and the couple passed happy ■honeymoon days in picturesque Normandy. . When tihey returned late at night to the mansion they had selected as their love nest, dreaming of the happy life that lay hefore them, as honeymoon couples will, there appeared beside their car the figure of a woman. ■ Tihe young hride was aware that during the intsrv.al, when the course ■of their true love had not run smoothly, another woman had come into the •life of her husband, and, full of ta.pprehension, she made to get out of the car to place herself between the woman and her bridegroom. Teh . husband, however, pulled his wife back and himself jumped out, to recognise in the intruder the woman he had discarded when reconciled to his old sweetheart. Knowing the character of. the woman, Mlle. Marie-Louise Senechia, an ■employee of the Post Office, Duval grabbed at the handbag she held, but he was too late. The woman had already opened it and taken out a revolver, with which sh'e fired two shots at Duval, who fell to the ground in ia critical condition. Then. "the woman scorned" turned the weapon on herself, lodgang in her breast two fatal wounds. (For the assailant death was instantaneous, but though Duval lingered 'in hospital his life was always despaired of, iand be died to-day. The young bride collapsed from shock at this tragic home-coaning, and it is feared she will lose her reason.