A BRUTAL CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 237, 3 October 1908, Page 15

A BRUTAL CRIME.

PARISIAN SLUM TRAGEDY. A fearful tragedy took place in the Plulsance Quarter In Paris, which ended In the death of two persons, and the sending of a poor dog, faithful to the last to his brutal master, to the Paris "Fourriere," that is, the place where abandoned canines must give up all hope once they enter it. A butcher's assistant and young woman had been occupying a flat for some time, and seemed to live on the best of terms, except that they showed little inclination for work and sometimes quarrelled. A recent spell of this kind brought on a violent dispute the other night, In the course or which the young woman suddenly broke out into terrific screams. A few seconds afterwards the butcher opened the door, ana carried the woman out to the hallway, where he DROPPED HER ON THE FLOOR in the presence of several neighbours, who had come In answer to her screams. "She is cut up well," he said, and added, "Now 1 shall do the same to myself," after whicn he re-entered his flat and locked the door. The poor young woman was cut up Indeed, as she had been stabbed in the chest five times, and her body had been ripped with a butcher's knife nearly a foot long. She was carried to the hospital, where she soon expired. Several attempts were made to get Into the man's room, but he had bolted and barred it so thoroughly that four policemen and the commissary were unable to force it. All night the man held his position behind the bolted door, pacing to and fro, and flourishing the big knife with which he had murdered the woman. His dog, a big mongrel, also growled behind the door, Imagining it was his duty to defend his muster, lv the morning the police were at last able to BREAK IN ONE DOOR, when the man took refuge lv another room, tne door of which had aiso to be forceu open. "You will not get mc alive,'' was the last thing he shouted to the police, and, in fact, when they entered the room he was lying on the floor with his jugular vein cut and a stab iv his heart. The dog had hie two paws ou his chest, and was crouched over his dying master, and growled savagely at the police. A blanket was thrown over the man, and the poor brute was sent away to the "Fourriere," whilst his master's body was conveyed to tho morgue.