ACTRESS AND LOVER.
A PARISIAN TRAGEDY. Paris, May 3—Yesterday afternoon at) actress named Matilda Riveron, the divorced wife of the Marquis Bourguignon-Duperre, who now resides in England, is alleged to have attempted to murder her lover, a man named Uoreau, and then threw herself out of the window. Friction had arisen between the pair in consequence of Moreau'a approaching marriage; but the latter, at the request of Riveron, had agreed to spend yesterday with her before finally parting. All went well until they returned to the house of the lady in the Faubourg du Temple, where the woman reproached Uoreau for deserting her, and, upon his reiterated refusal te continue their relations, stabbed him in tbe chest with a stiletto. He ran from the room screaming with pain, the woman following him and stabbing him a second time in tbe back. She then threw herself out of the window, sustaining concussion of the train, and died upon removal to the hospital. Mdlle. Riveron was only 25 years of ape. Moreau, it is believed, will recover.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10479, 26 June 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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