A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1072, 17 February 1883, Page 3

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

A terrible crime was committed in the Rue de Richelieu, Paris, on 12th December. It appears that about 7 o’clock a woman, with blood profusely streaming irom her breast, was seen leaning out of a window of the fourth floor of No. 89, and crying ‘ Help I’ ‘ Murder I’ A medical man who lives in tho same house and another neighbor immediately hastened upstairs, and, before the door of the apartment whence the cries proceeded were met by the servant belonging to it. The three then, entering the dwelling, went to the room at the window of which the woman had been seen, and there found her extended, with nothing on but her chemise, in a pool of blood, across her bed, at the foot of which a wet dagger was lying. A moment’s examination showed that she had ceased to breathe. On going to the adjoining room they found a man bleeding from a ballet wound lying on the floor, his right hand still clutching to a newly-dis-charged revolver. On the chimney-piece was the velvet sheath of the dagger with which tin woman nad been killed, and a letter written in a firm hand, addressed to the police commissioner, and another letter begging a Jewish benevolent society to see to the burial of the two bodies. The man proved to be one Repaport, a diamond merchant, and the woman his daughter—a girl 18 years of age. From the indications there is no reasonable doubt but that she was murdered by her father, and that immediately afterwards Le committed suicide. Repaport and his daughter, who it is stated was of groat personal attractions, had for some time lived there, and were well-known and respected by their neighbors. The motive tor the deed has not transpired, but rumor says that it is to be attributed to the father’s shame at the abandonment ot his daughter by « man who had seduced her under promise of marriage.