A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2058, 15 September 1885, Page 4

A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph telegraphed ;—"; — " Another of those dramas which are becoming appallingly frequent in Paris, has taken place at a house in the Boulevard Voltaire. For some years past an architect, named Coudray, a manied man of middle age with a family, had been on very intimate terms with a Madame Bessieres, the wife of a vendor of tobacco and spirits. Madame Bessioies, aged forty two, had two children, the elder of whom is now seventeen. Coudray, her pai amour, w.is a man of a jealous and \iolent chaiaeter, and had several times threatened to tike her life. He was constantly at the house and about with her. One evening the pair went to the theatre together. M. Bessie"res, after closing the shop at one a.m., retired to rest in a room on the first floor. About half past two he was awakened by the reports of a icvolver tiled in the shop below. Huirymg to the spot, he found his wife and Coudray lying dead on the floor. He at once gave the alarm, and the police were called in. On the counter were found tw o letter", written by the guilty couple In one Coudray asked pardon of his wife, and in the other Madame Bissicies prefeired a similar icifUCMt to her husband. Coudiay, after killing his mistiess, had blown out Ins own brains. Coudray's body was at once removed to his apartment in the Hue de Belleville, while the coipse of Madame Bessieres was taken to the bedroom above. An attempt has been made by the police authorities to obtain some information from M.BessiereH, but he is in such a slate of piostiation that not a syllable can be elicited fiom him. The atFair has created a great sensation in the neighbourhood. Large crowds have gathered before the house, and a strong force of police has been told off to maintain order."