A WIFE'S SELF-SACRIFICE.
HUSBAND'S CRIMES FORGIVEN. TWO ATTEMPTS AT MURDER. (Received 11.30 a.in.l PARIS, December 10. The flight and arrest of M. Boppe, a wealthy ex-Inspector of Forests, in tlie Nancy district, ro.veals incredible treatment of a self-sacrificing wife, who is a niece of Maurice Barrcs, the novelist. Boppe, for the sake of an intripue with, a t*irl when stationed at Epinal (luring the war. twice conspired to poi?on liis wife under the guise- of affection with cyanide. The plot was revealed by his children, but the wife forgave him. loiter Boppe shot her t>#iop in bod with a. revolver, simulating-Miieidal appearance. The wife was operated upin and recovered, but was pcrnxincntl y disfigured, and she again forpave him a.nd endorsed his story that she attempted suicide. Later en, learning that Boppc meaait to abscond abroad with his mistrPF-:, the wiffi denounced him and procured his arrest. — ("Times.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 303, 21 December 1921, Page 5
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