A LOVE TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9167, 15 August 1908, Page 3

A LOVE TRAGEDY.

While Count de Bistram was gamb- • fing at the Grand Cercle at Aix-les-Bains, writes the Geneva correspondent of a London paper, he received three imploring notes from his young «nd beautiful wife to return to the hotel and to her. The count, who is a* Russian, aged 25, of great wealth, .and a great gambler, put the notes in ;his pocket and gave on replies. A little later a messenger rushed into the rooms and informed the count that his wife had shot herself. When he returned to the hotel (Beau Site) the count found Drs. Goddard „and Voisin bending over his unconscious wife, who died soon after, the ibullet having pierced her heart. The Russian noble did not seem to <b3 much affected by tha tragedy, told tin doctors to embnlm the body, and ;a*nd it to Odessa to her father, M. •de Sgiebneff, stating that he was leaving at once for Geneva and vthsn for Russia. The couple were married four months ago, • and wer« on their honeymoon; but quarrels lia 1 already happsneJ on account of tha count's gambling propensities. The countes3, who had just reached her nineteenth year, at- j tracted much attention at Aix, oven ;in a cosmopoiian crowd, for her ibeauty.