MURDER OF A FRENCH BALLET GIRL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2152, 24 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

MURDER OF A FRENCH BALLET GIRL.

AxoTHEa horrible murder (says the Paris correspondent of the "Standard") was committed a few nights ago close to .the Grand Boulevarde. The victim was a woman of twenty-eight years of ago, • named Maria Augetant, the tenant of a flat (of which the rent is 2,000 francs a year) in the Rue Caumartin. She was recently attached to the corps do ballet at the Eden Theatre, but for some time would seen to have led a dissolute life. Her paramour, who was cashier at a dub, on coming home one Friday morning at three o'clock, found the body bf his mistress extended on the carpet at the side of the bed with nothing, on her but her nightdress, her throat being cut and the floor deluged with bjood. On giving the alarm he learnt that she had come home from some place of amusement about midnight in company with a man. This would seem to. have been no unusual occurence, for her servant, after having knocked at the door to enquire whether she was wanted, went to bed in the adjacent kitchen. The concierge ~ stated that abbut an hour after letting the pair in, he had, in response to the usual cry of "cordon," opened the door and let the man out. The room in which the murder was committed was full of curtains and portiers which would partly account for the servant, whose room was only divided by a thin partition, not ' hearing any noise. It is, moreover, evident, from the appearance of the corpse that the murderer had gagged hid victim while cutting her throat. According to the testimony of the man with whom the girl was living 6,000 francs and a number of jewels have disappeared. Various pieces of furniture were found broken open, so there is no doubt that plunder was the motive of the crime. Securities to the value of 25,000 francs, which were hidden under linen, escaped the discovery of the assassin.

These are 150 newspapers in the United States edited by coloured men. A Boating Episode. — The Oxford eight were out on a training pull on the Isis under the lead of a stroke oar who waa a scholar of Brazenose ; the stroke heard one of the crew discussing for a moment with a fellow oarsman some point about their studies, making some classical allusions. The indignant captain paused ; and, while from his uplifted feathered oar the glittering water was for an instant allowed to drip into the stream, he thundered out to the astonished undergraduate — "No d— — d intellectuality here I"