SHOOTING HER SOLICITOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9064, 26 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHOOTING HER SOLICITOR.

Dukes and Duchesses in sunny France seem to have a lively time of it just now. Yesterday (says the Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph) I related the adventures of a tramway conductor who lays claim to the sum of £4000 from the Duchesse de Luynes, and I have had occasion to refer to a threatening letter addressed to the Duchesse de Feltre by an individual who coolly informed her Grace that he had determined on blowing out her husband's brains. Now it is the Due and Duchesse de Polignac who have been the victims of the persistent persecu bion of an irate female who, by her repeated annoyances, hoped to extort money from them. This interesting creature has for some time past been in the habit of waiting outside the house in which the Polignacs arc living and overwhelming them with menaces and abuse whenever they appeared at their door. Not oontent with these proceedings, their tormentor went so far as to follow the Duchess about the streets, threatening to "do for her." Now it was a revolver which was to bring her Grace's days to an untimely end ; now it was vitriol which was to spoil her beauty ; at last, utterly wearied out, the Duke and Duchess complained to the police, and Madame Boux (nee Monville) found herself sentenced to a fortnightsimprisonement. On her rolease from gaol she turned her attentions to her lawyer, M. Fauqueux, whom she accused of preventing the Polignac family from yielding to her threats. Yesterday, however, the crisis reached its most actute phase. Following M. Fauqueux from his home in the Rue Blanche to the Gare Saint-Lazare, Madame Beux produced a revolver and fired on him to the consternation of the eye-witnesses of the dramatic scene. She was at once arrested, and will be kept in confinement pending her trial for this new crimo and misdeamour.