DREADFUL TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2236, 4 August 1891, Page 4

DREADFUL TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS.

A Paris correspondent, yaiting under date June 15th, says ;—A quadruple misfortune has just occured at Gentilly—a small place outside Paris. A young couple were married about a year since ; the husband was a working engineer and the pretty wife earned her living at a boot and shoe factory. Many painful scenes of jealousy occurred on the part of her husband at home, who concealed all sorts of arms about the place. Recently M. Guipier went away to serve his 28 days as t a soldier, and when he returned home his wife was absent. He found her at the fete at Vaugirard, in the act of riding on the wooden horse of. a roundabout. They returned home together. Mme. Guipier was no frightened that she was afraid to retire to r§st, which so infuriated her husband that he arose* and cut her throat in a dreadful manner under the very eyes of his mother-in-law, who inu mediately lost her reason. While Madame Guipier was being taken to the hospital, her husband inflicted upon himself some desperate cuts, which Jed to his being ajso conducted there. Another sufferer from this double crime is the concierge of the J house, who, on returning from the police 1 office, fell down in a lit and died, f