A FRENCH CRIME.
A Paris jury has acquitted a man who last August, by repeated blows and stabs with a sword-cane, killed his divorced wife. Ristelhuber, the prisoner, is an Alsatian, and a lampmaker. His wife was also an Alsatian, and they had three children. Four years ago he discovered that his wife was unfaithful, and he thereupon applied for a divorce. Before the trial came on he wrote a letter to his wife's family, in which he spoke his mind respecting her. Thereupon she instituted a cross suit for divorce, on the ground that she had been vilified. The court granted both applications, but assigned the children to the husband. On August 21 Ristelhuber met his ex-wife coming out of a beershop in company with two women and a man. She was singing boisterously. Ristelhuber rushed on her and struck her until she fell dead Two loaded revolvers were in his pockets.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8980, 18 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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153A FRENCH CRIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8980, 18 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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