A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2376, 1 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

A vi:rv exciing drama, tho correspondent of the tin]hj /'• f‘ ‘J .■.■','•/• says, was enacted on Tuesday at a house in the Rue Haxo, Paris. Its occupant, a wealthy manufacturer, had married bis daughter to the sou of a large landowner living in the Rue tie Tournelles. He had had great difficulty in inducing the girl to consent to the match, for the reason that, unknown to her father, she had for two years been carrying on a desperate flirtation with his cashier. Nor did the marriage put an end to the intrigue. On the afternoon after the wedding the bride met her lover, and afterwards almost daily accompanied him to a small hotel in the Rue de Belleville. The lady always declared that she had merely gone out to see her father, but onTMotnlay something in her manner led her husband to entertain suspicions as to her conduct, and on Tuesday afternoon when she left him he followed her. She proceeded to her father’s house, and finding that he was not at home, she went into the office, where tho cashier w 4 as sitting alone. Soon afterwards tho husband entered the room, and seeing that his worst fears were confirmed, produced a revolver and fired on his wife’s lover, inflicting a severe wound in tlie nape of the neck. He then took to flight, ami, returning to Ill’s own house, hanged himself in his bedroom. He was, however, cut down ere life was extinct, and although ho is still in a critical state, his recovery seems probable. As for tlie cashier, he is hovering between life and death.