JEALOUS FAMILY TRAGEDY.
A terrible family tragedy was enaohod recently at Marseilles. A blacksmith named Francois Mailletot, agod 51, in, a fit of jealousy, mortally wounded hi» wife, killed his brother, and then took his own lite. Mailletet, who was the lather of six children, had been for a long timo on bad torms with his brother Joseph, and suspected his wife ot infidelity. Aftor raising a dispute with hiß wife, the blaoksinith seized a hammer and felled her with one blow on the head. Thinking eho was dead, ho went out in soaroh of his brother, whom he met. The two men exchanged bouio bittor words, and suddenly the blacksmith, drawing a revolver from 'his pocket, shot Joseph in thu head. Death was nibtautuneous. While the onlookers wero attendiua to his brothers body, the ami IdVret mow out Ins own brains. In his IJockct was found a letter, which showed thdt hs ba4 g«»Lllully_ i?,ljum»d the decd 4
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 13
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159JEALOUS FAMILY TRAGEDY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 13
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