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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8360, 13 September 1890, Page 5

_ According to the English notion of justice! a lady who lately fired at her faithless husband, and was prevented from killing him only by the interposition of a simple button, which stopped the bullet, was guilty of conduct which deserved punishment. A French magistrate, however, has only fined a delinquent of this kind £4, re marking, at the same time, that she was well deserving of sympathy, and refraining from cautioning her against the inadvisability of taking the law into her own hands. Certainly the wife told a pitiful tale. Her husband is a comparatively wealthy man, but he turned her and her daughter out of doors, refused to contribute to their support, and allowed certain female friends of his to send them some common dry bread as an eleemosynary dole of the satirical order. A climax, however, was reached, from the French point of view, when he allowed himself to be subjugated completely, as his wife stated in court, by a Prussian. Perhaps this statement made a deep impression on the worthy magistrate, who is probably a patriot, and he was thereby induced to go out of his way in order to express sympathy for one who was defrauded of her conjugal rights by a Teutonic rival.