SENSATION IN PARIS
POLICEMAN SHOOTS HIS WIFE.
(UNITED PRESS • ASSOCIATION.—:OPTRIGHT.)
(AUSIRAUAN-HIW HALAND CABLg ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 28th January. The "Daily Express" Paris correspondent reports a. sensation in a city' Court. A policeman, sued for divorce, shot his wife dead before the eyes of the Judge. After -the wife had. described her sufferings, the husband admitted his faults. He added : "I changed and promised to treat her kindly. I did not know before what it was to be lonely." The Judge asked: "Will you give him a chance, madome?" • "No," replied the-woman, "I cannot live with him again." As she turned away, the husband put Vs hand into q, pocket and drew a revolver. There was a flash, and the wife fell with a wound in the 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, but the husband is expected to recover.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 5
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