An Unheard-of Tragedy.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 224, 15 October 1887, Page 2

An Unheard-of Tragedy.

A dkama lias occmred in a place named Valebto, near Toulin, which deserves record, as it is a rare instance in the chronicles of crime. A grocer named Anicet lost his younEf wife about four months ago. Latterly ho became violently enamoured of his widowed mother-in-IaAV, a Mme. Freboise> ao-ed 48 years, in whose house lie was living. The widow thought at first that her pon-in-law was making game of her, but as he renewed his extxaordinary protestations of affection with vehemence she kept him at a distance. One Tuesday the man went out to, a cafe, and returned home after having indulged in deep potations. He went into his mother-in-law's room and made proposals of marriage to her. As she refused, he took a revolver out of his pocket and following her fiom the room from which she fled in terror, he fired three times at her. The woman fell dead at the bottom of the stairs of the house, having been hit mortally in the head. The murderer then turned his weapon on himself, and inflicted two wounds in his chest and ribs, a third shot having missed. After that he pulled himself up to an adjacent window and threw himself out. He was picked up bleeding and inanimate, but not dead, and was conveyed to the hospital, where he lies hovering 1 between life and death.