A ROMANCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3610, 5 April 1881, Page 3

A ROMANCE.

A touching and romantic story comes from Paris. At the fall of the Commune, nearly ten years ago, among the condemned to death, in contumaciam, was a man named Parraentier. He was supposed to have fled from France, but he had not even left Paris. His wife who was a work-woman in a match factory, sheltered her husband in a garret, on the sixth floor of a house in the Rue Popincjurfc, and this garret during a period of nearly ten years, the proscribed Communist never left. The concierge and JSthe neighbors were wholly ignorant that Madame Parmentier had anyone living with her. About a month ago the porter became aware that she no more passed his lodge After waiting a few days he notified the police. The door of the apartment was broken open, and the corpse of Madame Partmentier was found lying on the bed by the side of an unknown man. From papers on his person it was discovered that he was the Communist Parraentier, condemned to .death in 1871, and investigation showed that the couple had committed suicide, Both, were over sixty years of age. It is conjectured that the poor woman, finding her health and strength declining, and unable to procure sufficiently remunerative employment for the subsistence of herself and her husband, had at last yielded to utter despair, and persuaded, or had been persuaded, by her husband to mutual destruction,