TRAGEDY OF AGED LOVERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1912, Page 3

TRAGEDY OF AGED LOVERS.

A lover of sixty-one shot his sweetheart and then committed, suicide, while walking along a Paris Boulevard. - The two persons concerned were Jules Noeppel, aged eixty-one, and Marguerite Baillif, aged fifty-six. They had been lovers for a long time past, and quarrelled frequently, but as often "made it. up." The woman went to meet Noeppel as he left his house. They went up the Boulevard del' Hospital, conversing in friendly fashion, as they did each day. Suddenly a quarrel broke out, Noeppel drew a revolver, and before the pasers-by could intervene he had fired two shots at the woman. [ She dropped dead on the spot. Noeppel knelt on her body and firad { another shot through her 'head. A > crowd surrounded him, and Noeppel, > before their eyes, turned his revolver

against himself. He fired the first shot through his jaw, then a second, and finally a third, and dropped dead. across the body of .his victim. „■