A Wife' Vengeance.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7401, 17 September 1902, Page 2

A Wife' Vengeance.

At Susa, iv Tunis, the trial of the tiro Charnbaas who are charged with the murder of the Marquis de Mor&i is proceeding. Few more pathetic episodes can be imagined than the silent persistence with which the wife of the murdered Marquis de Mores has followed the assassins of her husband.

It was as long ago as June 13, 1896, that the adventurous French man met hk death at the g-ites of the Sahara. Since that time the Marquise has b.en unremitting in her endeavours to discover the murderers, aud offered a reward of £600 for their apprehension. She refused to regard the death of her husband as an act of brigandage. Her firm oonviction was that he was killed in order to serve political ends. He was a rabid anti-Semite, and it is supposed that his death was brought about by nativo chieftains in the pay of the officials of Algeria and Tunis. It is the Marquise dc Mores' belief that her husband was induced by preconcerted plans to ti>ke back his camel drivers, wh. would have been a safeguard against attack. The long seafch of the widow and her friends has been responsi'.ile for tbe postponement of the trial, as she wished tr> get documentary evidence She endeavoured unsuccessfully to charge the place of i rial, and she is at this moment at Suvn, following the case with the closest attention. The reputed assassins cf the Marquise de Mores wero arrested four years ago, as the resu't of a confession made to a native priest, who then gave information to tho French Government. This priest has since died in an expedition. The Marquise was attacked by members of the Chambaa tribe, and, though wounded with sword thrusts, he reached a rock, and kept the foo al bay for two hours. Finally, he was despatched by a shot in the back.