WIFE SHOT DEAD.
IN PARIS DIVORCE COURT. (BT CABLE— PEESS ASSOCIATION" COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 28th, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. Tho Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports a sensation in a city Court. A policeman, sued for divorce, shot his wife dead before the eyes of the judge.
After tho wifo described her suffering, the husband admitted his faults; but he added: "I have changed. I promise to treat her kindly. I did not know before what it was to be lonely." The judge asked: "Will you give him a chance, maaame'?" "No!" replied the woman. "I cannot live with him again," aud she turned away.
The husband put a hand into his pocket and drew a revolver. There was a flash, and the wife fell with a wound in her throat.
Before he could be overpowered, the husband fired two bullets into his own head and fell across his wife's body. She is dead. The husband is expected to recover.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17983, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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