GREAT PARIS MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 July 1907, Page 4

GREAT PARIS MYSTERY.

*» . AMAZIXIi ACCUSATIONS AGAINST A DOCTOR. WIFE'S STRANGE DEATH. Paris, May 20. Extraordinary stories are in circulation regarding the deatii of .Mine, de inrain, tic wife of a phy-ician. 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 hale 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 (he Paris hospitals, eloped with a young woman and was married in Ijondon.

He returned to Paris to set up a medical practice with C4OO which his wife had. .Meanwhile his mother had died, leaving him a fortune that placed him beyond the necessity for work, lie there'upon renounced medicine, and the couple went to live in a suburb, where he intended to spend his days gardening. 11. de Forain is said'to have gradually grown colder towards his wife, and to" have neglected her. Finally he sought to have the marriage annulled, but was unsuccessful.

After three years' separation Mine, ile Forain returned to live with her husband last October. A few days later she began to complain of feeling* unwell. Her husband appeared concerned and tended his wife apparently with the utmost devotion.

Mine, de Forain appeal's to have told

\---r sister that hi husband's prescriptions only made her worse, and finallv she was taken to a hospital with typhoid fever. She got well again, and returned home in January.

M. de 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 to kill me?'' ITe answered: "No. it is to make you well." Last Monday her -husband had her taken to St. Antoine Hospital. She said to her sister: "This time he has given line a strong dose. lam done for. ' Do not let mi- be buried without a postmortem." Two hours later fhf died. The police have seized letters, which show that (he doctor was corresponding with a young woman wilh whom he is -aid lo be in love.

The police have found the following letter from her. addressed to M. de Fo" rain:

"I am eighteen. I love you. You told me that you loved me, 'that I was beautiful, but I could not come to von. Are you Ihe master? Caild vou'not liirn out (hat vul-rur woman?' Why will you not tell her to go: Why do you not tell her that you love mo?" Further on she says:— "This woman is in Ihe way. Why did you hide your slavery from me? Why did you make me hope? T repeat, this woman is in the way. T suiter inexpressible grief. I love you. omv beloved:''