TWO TRAGEDIES.

Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1912, Page 5

TWO TRAGEDIES.

FRENCH DOUCLE MURDER. P RRP ETRATOR ACQ U ITTEI). BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION PARIS, May 13. Madame Pascal has been acquitted. The medical evidence showed that she was suitoiMig from Neurasthenia. At the beginning of December Madame Marguerite Pascal, wile of an exsoldier employed in a Paris newspaper office, murdered her husband while lie slept, then went to the house of his aunt and shot her, afterwards giving herself up to the police. "My husband Jll-treated me," she told the officials, "and his aunt egged him on. I resolved to be revenged on them both, and I killed them." Pascal is said to have been of an irascible ti mperament, and there were frequent scenes between the couple. On December 4 Madame Pascal, after a quarrel with her husband, went out accompanied bv her nine-year-old daughter, leaving her husband in bed. Mother and daughter lunched in a restaurant, and afterwards Madame Pascal purchased a revolver and a quantity of cartridges. Returning home, .she left her daughter in charge of the concierge, remarking that she was going upstairs to see if her husband was still asleep. Pascal was asleep, and he never woke again, for. stepping softly to the side of the bed, his wife ( put three bullets into his head. Then Madame Pascal took train to Suvigny-sur-Orge, a. little hamlet about 10 miles from Paris, where, her husband's maiden aunt, Mademoiselle Camille Pascal, lived, and fired four times, mortally wounding the aged woman. Returning to her lodgings, the woman embraced In r little girl before giving herself up to the police. NEW SOUTH WALES TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, May 1. At Wentworth a widow named Airs White was found with her throat fatally cut. The body of her fl-yoar-old son was lying on a bed in another room. It is suspected that the woman killed the boy and then committed suicide.