A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1978, 30 April 1885, Page 2

A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

The ' Figaro' and othor jjapera publish 8 dotaila of the following most sensatiißftl 1 drama, which tlioy allege lias just occfflwd r in Pariß in jtlio family of a wealthy and 3 well-known American residing near the Avenuo du Bois de Bologne. The married couple lived moat happily together for several years, hut recently the husband discovered his wife guilty of clandestine relations with tho gavdoncr, Ton days later he found in ono of his ' wife's dresses a love letter from tho gardener, containing tho following seng tence: —" Poison your husband, and we .. will flee together to Now York, where wo will livo happily." The husband said , nothing. In silence he awaited tho ' x mouwjit for a terrible revenge. On February 22nd, as the husband and jj wife were going to bed, the wife placed, according to her usual custom, two glasses of sygar and water, one for herself and pne for Jier hugkind, on the dressing . table near the bed—=th© wife, as she had) always done, putting the sugar in thcji water. The husband watched the opera' tions, betraying no unusual expression, Jnafcas his wife was about to drink, tho husband asked hot to lend him a hand--5 kerohief tlwt was hanging on the back of * a chair, As his wife turned to take the handkerchief, her husband adroitly reversed the tray upon which were placed ~ the twoglasses, so thattheoneintenaedfor him stood in the place of that intended t for his wife. The husband and wife g drank at tho same moment. As the IiSP r band, after- emptying his glass, calmly replaced it on the dressing tablo, his wife a fell to tho floor shrieking with agony. D She had swallowed the strychnine that q slio had, with her own hands, prepared I for her husband, The affair caused a t great sensation. The wife is not dead j yet, but is suffering terribly.. An official _ enquiry is being instituted. The husband and gardener have both lieen arrested.