A FRENCH TRAGEDY.
According to the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, a domestic drama of the real French school is reported from Arzew, in Algeria. A chemist of that town named Maximy had for some time suspected the fidelity of his better half, so he resolved to remove with her from Arzew to a farm which he leased in the adjoining district. All went well for some time until the other day, during dinner, Mdme. Maximy put some aconite in a bottle of wine while her husband's back was turned, and calmly awaited results. The chemist took two or three glasses of the stuff, and no sooner had he done so than ho felt violent qualms in his "interior." Immediately suspecting real state of affairs, he took up the 'wine that remained in the bottle and subjected it to a rough analysis. Finding his suspicions confirmed, he went for a revolver, and with it shot his wife dead as she still sat at the table. The poison in the meantime had not done its work, for M. Maximy, thanks to his professional knowledge and experience, was able to treat himself medicinally, and is in a fair way to recover completely from the attack uDon his life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9172, 29 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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