A Woman's Vengeance.

Evening Star, Issue 8718, 9 January 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Woman's Vengeance.

An instance of woman's vengeance has been brought to light by a tragedy in Prance. The scene was laid in that dingy manufacturing town/Tuteaux, on the Versailles line between Paris and Suresnes. A tradesmen of the locality mentioned married in August last a young woman of very attractive appearance, who, however, proved the very reverse of faithful, for shortly after the marriage she left her husband for a lover. On her promising to reform she was taken back from Paris to the Puteaux domicile, but seeing that her married life was destined to become unhappy, she resolved (o commit suicide, and at the same time to oause, if possible, the dteath of her husband, Accordingly, while the latter was sound asleep one night, she lighted a charcoal sto\ e in her kitchen and conveyed it to the bedroom, the door and window of which ehe fastened carefully. Then she went to bed, and was soon suffocated by the fumes from the burning fuel. Her husband, however, awoke in the midst of his sufferings, and had strength enough left to get out of bed and to open the windows. He thus suooeeded in saving his life.