THE WOMAN WHO FAILED.
Tin; English mail brings news of a tragedy that missed firo in Paris. A woman, apparently desirous of getting rid of her husband, riggod up an impromptu gallows in a loft above the bed where ho lny sleeping, and fixed a rope round his neck. While she was returning to the loft the man awoke, and, catching the humour of the situation, slipped the noose, from his head and attached it to a small stove. Ho then lay down again, and watched the stove being slowly drawn up towards the ceiling. The woman, satisfied with the weight of the pull, rushed to the window, and cried loudly that her husband had hanged himself, but when tho neighbours and street-loungers hurried in they found tho stovo dangling in mid-air and tho wife being battered by tho husband in a corner. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 4
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