EXCITING LOVE DRAMA.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 193, 14 August 1909, Page 15

EXCITING LOVE DRAMA.

TYPICAL PARISIAN EPISODE. An exciting scene was witnessed about nine o'clock the other evening in a street In the Monceau district, writes the Paris correspondent of the London "Dally Telegraph. " A young and elegant woman was walking with a neatly dressed man wheu she suddenly pulled v revolver out of! her pocket and discharged three shots at ber companion. A passer-by wrested the weapon from her grasp, and banded it to a couple of policemen who had run up, and at the same moment the wouuded man hailed a cab, shouted an address to the driver, and promptly disappeared round the corner. When she was taken to the police 6tatlon the lady said that she was divorced, and was living in the neighbourhood with her four chlldreu. The gentleman at whom she (had fired bad been on very friendly terms with her for some time, but as they did not exactly hit it off they had decided to part. What was her grievance against him now? Well, her former friend was a man of letters, and Bhe considered' that he had made veiled allusions to her In some of his writings. Her protest having been without effect, she had complained to the Judicial authorities, and finally she had arranged) an Interview with him. She had proposed her dwelling as the place of meeting, but on reflection had thought that they could talk matters over better In the street, and In a moment of exasperation she had taken out ber revolver aud had fired at her former friend.

The gentleman bad been so badly hurt one of the bullets having lodged near a luug and another In the back, that he had repaired to a pilvate hospital. Asked whut truth there was in the lady's accusation, ha explained that the look of which sho complained had been published long before their quarrel. The fact was that he had reason to suspect that the lady's affections were now concentrated on another nun, whom he had thought of challenging to a duel; indeed, he had appointed an interview with blra In another street for the earlier part of that evening, and bad gone there when she tripped along Instead, looking more elegant and captivating than ever. On his expressing surprise she asked him to call at .her house a few hours later, as she had something of Importance to tell.hlm, which would, perhaps, lead to their reconciliation. He agreed, and oppeared nt the appointed hour, nine o'clock, but was asked by the housemaid to go down the road as far as a particular cabstand, and wait. In five minutes' time the folr lady approached. He suggested that they should take n cab, ns they could talk without attracting notice, but he was not sorry when she declined the offer. They walked up and down for a while, she often looking over her shoulder, as If to see If they were watched, and at last she said: "There are too many people In this road, so let us go down that street; and srsp out, It will do mc good. Yes, I have decided on withdrawing my complaint against you." A moment afterwards she fired at him. The man of letters says: "I was a yard away from her when she discharged three shots at mc. I went on, feeling nothing at first, being only too glad to have got alive out of this trap, and drove to my residence. Soon, however, I began to suffer. I undressed hurriedly, found that I was wounded, aud so sent for a doctor, who, after having examined mc, had mc conveyed here." Does he bear the lady any grudge? "I have ruined myself for her sake," he exclaimed; "but I love her always, aud shall adore her whatever she may do." The fascinating woman Is now at the Depot of the Prefecture of Police, as, although the gentleman, who Is really more seriously Injured that he seems to Imagine, will not lodge a complaint against her, the authorities do not consider that she can be allowed to remain at liberty.