ANOTHER PARISIAN TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 6

ANOTHER PARISIAN TRAGEDY

A mysterious tragedy is engaging the attrition of tho Paris police, ~ who have arrested Mme Audouin.. a, married woman. 44 years of age. on a charge of killing h-"r lover, M. Henri Robert Ho Thiac, aged. 25. Unio Aiidouin protects her innocence, and averts that. M. He Thiac shot himself with a. revolver. M. Louis Robert He Thiac. dramatic author ,_ a brother of the dead man. refuses to believe that his brother committed suicide. Tn a, statement made, before the, commissary he. declared that. .Mine Audouin made his brother's acquaintance when she was 36 year.? of age and the mother of two bov6. .At- that time hj? was only 15. and their relations continued during the intervening eight years. Two years ajo Mme Audouin presented her lover with*! motor ear -worth £l2O. This opened 'he eyes of M. Henri Ho T'liac's father, and it. wae decided to transfer the young m.T) to Pari-. Mme Audouin afterwards her husband and 'child'-cu and rejoined her lover. Event fall-.- the latter became engaged to a. p-i rl .it. Angers, and went to take up a situation in a bank there. He told Mine Audouin that he was going abroad. ,She followed him to Angcrr,. and threatened to kill him if ho did not cancel his marriage engagement. Last Sunday tho voting man'told his brother that. Mme Audouin had written him saying she had become reconciled, to the idea, of his marriage, but implored hb.u to meet her for the last time in the Luxembourg Gardens. Paris. The dramatist wanr\| his brother, as Mine Audouin',.; sudden change of attitude seemed suspicious. Js n ( the young man laughed at the idea, of danger. On Monday morning M. Louis He Thiac received a. letter from Mine Audouin asking him to crime immediately to Paris as his brother wa« seriously wounded. At. the hospital he fo-;no' his brother dead, with a bullet, wound in the right temple. Mine Audonin's version of what happened is thai, shortly after they reached her apartments (die heard a Midden report, and when she turned round she found that M. Henri He Thiac hail tired a. revolver at his head, lie bad. she- said, put, an end ;o his life becavfic she refused to have anything more to do with him.