TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9157, 25 March 1893, Page 10 (Supplement)

TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR.

A tragic story of love and jealousy is reported from the town of Lodzy, in Russian Poland. A young man belonging to one of the leading families of the place fell in love with a beautiful girl, who was one of the principal artistes ab a well-known cafe zhantant, and believed that his affection was returned. One day, however, he surprised the girl in a very familiar conversation with a wealthy merchant of Lodzy, and there was a violent; scene, which ended in the young, who had received a blow from his rival, drawing a revolver and firing three shots at him. There was, however, no harm done, only one of the, bullets having hit, and that only so slightly as merely to cause a graze on the skin. However, the police intervened, and the young man was imprisoned, but was shortly afterwards released through the intervention of his own family and the refusal of his adversary to take any action against him. On returning home the hero of this adventure sent; his mistress a note begging her to come and see him, and she, repenting her infidelity, and hoping for a reconciliation, went to his lodgings. She found, however, the door locked, and after knocking loudly several times summoned help. The police, who were called ii? by the neighbours, broke open the door, and there found the unhappy young man half lying on an armchair, with his head thrown back, and a stream of blood flowing from a wound in the temple, inflicted evidently with a pistol which lay on the ground. He waa quite dead,